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I would argue Russia routinely sends high quality fresh faces to some degree. Of course they tend to keep tried and true in the running longer than we do with team trials.

I apologize to both @red viking and @ThreePointTakedown for tagging the wrong member.

57kg: Spencer over Luke 65kg: Jax over Blaze (Call me crazy but I think this is the toughest match he has in 2028) 74kg: PJ over Mitchell/Carr 86kg: Zahid over max 97kg: Rademacher over Snyder 125kg: Dreshaun I hope over Wyatt

Some would call moving from NC to PA to work out with the McCort room a path other people might not take

The conservative adds a third example. ... 'all conservatives'... SSSHALLENGEEE LOSTTT

No, I don't think so. He is short, but has been 213lbs for a long time with very low body fat percent. He isn't smaller just short.

Damn. Thanks.

This was like ten years ago. Akgul was in his prime and Snyder still very young.

If he is at least 50% then you are taking him over the field?

It should be really easy for you @red viking and much harder for me. This example is an apology to you.

One example:

@Jon_Kozak credit goes to the cesspool when Pyles miraculously brings this up on FRL

I don't think there was an option to appeal. I think it was just an official complaint

Is it me, or did Cuba's slide coincide with Covid? I'm sure they were already on the downturn, but things seem to have gotten worse since. Maybe the world economy pst-Covid has hit them even harder than everyone else.

Ed Ruth had a couple of issues. Then there was Andrew Long

No Sad. Ex-pats outscoring them. MMA. They beat Japan with Sad. Japan looks better with Higuchi and Ono, but those two never planned to wrestle. Sad did.

Makes sense... the PSU fans said the whole story was fishy.

They are diluted as a lot of top Russians are wrestling for other countries.

Cary Kolat L Mac J B Blake Rosholt Kerry McCoy Stephen Neal Steve Marianetti Corey Olsen Kevin Randleman Johnny Thompson Mark Branch Cael Michael Lightner Joe Williams (especially when gable slapped him) Mitch Clark Dave Schultz Mike Sheets

Finishes fourth behind Japan. I know Sad wasn’t there. Is that the only difference? He would have brought more points. But let’s look … 57kg - 7th 61kg - 1st 65kg - 5th 70kg - something north of 10th 74kg - 3rd 79kg - 9th 86kg - 10th 92kg - 2nd 97kg - 8th 125kg - 9th This does not look like a result for Russia. Are other weights impacted by the Ukraine invasion complexities? Best guys can’t represent? Other story lines?

L = QV W = LV

But the restrictive government isn't new. It was always restrictive and always had wrestlers under their thumb and they still were very good. Something else changed. I also don't think it's just MMA. Aside from Romero going MMA after his wrestling career, I'm not seeing a bunch of Cubans pop up in MMA. Their slide as a FS power is deeper than MMA.

I think the new guys were far better than expected. 1st time reps 61 Jax was 5th and was close to both guys who beat him 65 Woods bronze 70 Duke 1-1. Loss to a multi-champ who didn't pull him in 74 Carr 5th with 2 super close losses to top 3 guys 79 Haines silver 92 Hidlay gold 125 Hendrickson was the only real disappointment of the 1st timers I don't think any nation could send 7 first time reps and perform like we did. The depth is seriously like 10Xs what it was 20 years ago. And the number of young guys who can compete on the world stage is staggering. Combine this with us being fantastic at u17 and u20, and I don't see how you could argue against a new golden age starting up.

did he mean BIG FLOUNDER?