Riaño makes history

It was February 20, 1994. The winter league, then individual, and in San Andrés del Rabanedo, his municipality, a 19-year-old boy won his first round: Javier Oblanca, from Villabalter won his first round with two illustrious companions as winners: Agustín Escanciano, from Prioro; and Julio Álvarez, The Villarrodrigo Helicopter. That day the very young wrestler explained that he practiced judo but had gone to see the Great Final Wrestling Corro, with the pavilion packed and said to himself: “I want to wrestle.” And luckily he did.

On August 6, 1995, the bullfight of La Vecilla de summer league, Antonio Getino won in the middle and in heavyweight El Che de Prioro… And in light? Well, a Javier Oblanca who defeated, the chronicles of the time said, “those he admires”: Gerardo (today a referee); the great Tasio, El Gato de Tarnilla; and Unai, from Valporquero de Rueda, in the final. Oblanca had just won his first round of the Summer League.

1994, 1995 began the story of a kid seduced in a big circle.

In 1994 Oblanca won his first round in a Winter League; and in 1995 in the summer, to Unai in La Vecilla…August 21, 2022. Twenty-five minutes to seven in the afternoon, day and time for history. Javier Oblanca Sanchez He has just given half a fall to the thriving young Florián Yugueros, from Sorriba del Esla. He has just won the circle Javi Oblanca, gray hair, not an extraordinary gesture, a nervous smile and a greeting to respond to the applause of an audience that knows that it has just seen how the history of the lion fight Well, Javier Oblanca Sánchez has just joined it, he has already won many circles and a nickname that does him justice: La Cátedra Ambulante de Villabalter.

He, who carries it all in his head, knows that he has just made history. He knows that he is almost 48 and a half years old and the previous owner of this symbol is his friend Roberto Andrés Moro, El Morín de Riaño, who established it when he was 46 years and 11 months old. That is to say, Oblanca beats him with more than a year of advantage. And yet, not a single gesture: “I’m honest, he has lent me a lot, for the circle, for the victory, also for the record that, honestly, I was very happy when Morín beat it because it was like he won it ‘ one of yours’, with whom I had shared so many circles, so many things… the truth is, I don’t know what to tell you, the other day I stayed until the end, which I’m not used to, to bring the joy of seeing Davizuco win, another one of ‘ours'”.

The Chair showed in the circle the reason for its nickname. He officially got rid of the kids Hugo López and Pablo Larrea; but in the semifinals and the final the strongest of the moment awaited him, the leader David Riaño, in the semifinals, and second overall, Florián, in the final. And he won both fights with a recital of knowing what to do, how to fight, what skill to apply, how to surprise… step by step. David must still be thinking about how as soon as he whistled for the final fall it locked him like a whiplash. He had to give Florián three falls, none repeated, loose, the square when nobody thought that he was going to waste his strength on her and although he put up with it, he put his chest in as soon as he posed and took him: «The truth is that I thought, I’m going to do this… and curiously it came out. I no longer expected anything because I did not train in winter but I am enjoying the fight … that is why I continue ».

– You’ve made history.
– There is no need to give it more importance.
– Or take away the one he has.

He takes the car and leaves. She is awaited by the fighter Celia, from the remembered Squad of Omaña —another great gift of the fight— and the upbringing, who still doesn’t understand what dad just did, which is very big. And exciting for those who saw him in 94.

The great Rubo is back

It’s a shame and there is no room for more things that happened, but they will understand the importance of telling a day with history. The most harmed by oblivion is the great Rubo, that unstoppable fighter when he has one of those days as a jewel fighter. And this Sunday was the day, Rodri proved it well in a great final, in which the public enjoyed the Rubo show, with strength, with quality, with fight.

In the media, the favorite Adri had won, on an afternoon in which the remarkable thing may be that Nico continues to grow and that good old Guille, from Valdeón, returned.

And what was said for the excellent fight between Rubo and Rodri could be worth, even multiplied, for the heavyweight semifinal between the two top contenders: Unai del Campo and Pedro Alvarado, from power to power El Potro and El Kamikaze, anything could happen but Alvarado finally took him, who established himself as a leader.

Once ‘the expense’ was done, Jorge from Villacorta was not given any option in the final, already happy to be there and who, moreover, won in the morning in his youth category.

Priscila and Cecilia, as always, with an Edi showed their quality

In female category There are two fighters who are placed ‘as fixed’ in the highest drawer of the light and heavyweight podium: Leonese Priscila Martínez and La Ciclón de Yugueros, Cecilia García.

And they did it again. And they did it with solvency, although Ainoha was ahead of Priscila with half a fall, which she came back from. Something unusual happened in heavyweight, a goalless tie between Paola and Silvia in the semifinals meant that both were fourth in the standings and what was going to be a semifinal became a final, but the loser, Lucía, would only be third.

The war was in a beautiful media end, in which the always thriving breed and power of Luzma and an Edi who showed her best face, the one that made her champion in 2021, were measured. Luzma was looking for her, as she always does, but Edi waited; a throw defined the combat. Luzma looks for her, Edi wants to give the median, Luz releases it from her but the twin sticks her hip… and it’s over.