Mongolian wrestling coaches strip down to underwear in protest of bronze medal loss (VIDEO)

For any of you out there who ever wondered what a Gobi Desert Chippendale's might be like (you know who you are), look no further than the 65 kg bronze medal wrestling match Sunday afternoon when a pair of Mongolian coaches stripped off their clothing on the mat in a protest of a call by officials that gave the medal to Uzbekistan's Ikhtiyor Navruzov.

The bizarre scene unfolded after an afternoon filled with disputed calls — and a lot of multi-syllable names — when  Navruzov appeared to have lost to Mongolia's Mandakhnaran Ganzorig 7-6.

Uzbekistan challenged the scoring, believing that the Mongolian was fleeing instead of fighting because he was running around in celebration with less than 10 seconds left.

Navruzov — whose quarterfinal match resulted in the dismissal of all three officials involved after a questionable late call — won his challenge and, ultimately, the match on criteria.

With about seven seconds left in the match, Mongolia's Mandakhnaran Ganzorig began running around the mat, waving his arms in front of Navruzov in celebration of his impending victory. When the final buzzer sounded, Ganzorig fell to the mat in celebration. His coaches covered him in the Mongolian flag.

Cue the music.

Right after the penalty point call, a disgusted Byambarenchin Bayaraa took his shoes and shirt off and threw them to the mat as Tsenrenbataar Tsostbayar stripped all the way down to his blue undies in front of the officials as the Brazilian crowd started chanting “Mongolia! Mongolia!”

"This was a protest. There was a problem with the refereeing," said Bayarra. "The Mongolian wrestler won 7-6 and he lost because of this [judges' decision]. This is the only time in history of wrestling with point penalty."

When in Rio...

IOC drops wrestling from 2020 Olympics

The IOC executive board decided Tuesday to drop wrestling from the 2020 Games.  The decision to scrap one of the oldest and most basic sports in the Olympic program is a surprising one.

IOC leaders decided to retain modern pentathlon — which was considered most at risk — and remove wrestling instead from its list of "core sports," reports The Associated Press.

Wrestling — which combines freestyle and Greco-Roman events — goes back to the inaugural modern Olympics in Athens in 1896.  The sport featured 344 athletes competing in 11 medal events at last year's London Games.

Wrestling will now join seven other sports in applying for inclusion in 2020.  The others are a combined bid from baseball and softball, karate, squash, roller sports, sport climbing, wakeboarding and wushu.  They will be vying for a single opening in 2020.

Modern Pentathlon combines fencing, horse riding, swimming, running and shooting — all sports which already have their own individual Olympic events — so dropping the whole sport of wrestling seems illogical. Pentathlon's governing body, the UIPM,  lobbied hard to protect its Olympic status and it seems to have paid off.

The IOC executive board will meet in May to decide which sport or sports to propose for 2020 inclusion. The final vote will be made at the IOC general assembly in September in Buenos Aires.

The last sports removed by the Olympics were baseball and softball, voted out in 2005, and out of the Olympics since the 2008 Beijing Games.  Golf and rugby will be joining the program at the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The IOC program commission report analyzed more than three dozen criteria, including television ratings, ticket sales, anti-doping policy and global participation and popularity. With no official rankings or recommendations contained in the report, the final decision by the 15-member board was also subject to political, emotional and sentimental factors.