Too young to make their own decisions…

I’m sorry, but I have a serious issue with these kids. I originally found them while scanning ANANOVA for the strange and unusual. It seems that Russian Dzhambulat Khotokhov is the World’s largest four-year-old child, weighing in at 123 pounds at a stalky 3 feet 11 inches. Apparently, these kids are wrestlers and their parents have decided that their morbidly obese lifestyle is perfectly acceptable.

I can understand teenagers training to become Sumo or Olympic wrestlers, but I just can’t accept the fact that parents are making life and health altering decisions for four- and five-year-old children (see Baby Ink Tattoo hoax for another example). Knowing what it’s like to be the fat kid, I can only imagine what these kids will go through when they get older.

Who knows…perhaps I am just completely and utterly ignorant to the preparation and training aspect of the sport of wrestling, but I just can’t see this being healthy. I know Sumo wrestlers are incredibly healthy for their weight, but a four year old frame just isn’t built to support over a hundred pounds.

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