AKHUNTER Posted June 17, 2023 Posted June 17, 2023 Wow indeed ..........Zane impressive........... Gilman falling fast.
DJT Posted June 18, 2023 Posted June 18, 2023 What did I miss? Did they street fight in the Casey’s parking lot or something? The pizza really isn’t good enough to be worth catching a battery charge over.
Bigbrog Posted June 19, 2023 Posted June 19, 2023 On 6/17/2023 at 7:37 PM, DJT said: What did I miss? Did they street fight in the Casey’s parking lot or something? The pizza really isn’t good enough to be worth catching a battery charge over. Their breakfast pizza is though....
DJT Posted June 19, 2023 Posted June 19, 2023 7 minutes ago, Bigbrog said: Their breakfast pizza is though.... Casey's breakfast pizza is a staple in coaches' rooms in these parts... 1
ILLINIWrestlingBlog Posted June 20, 2023 Posted June 20, 2023 Did Thomas Gilman fall, or did Zane Richards rise? Zane wrestled the World Champion Abakarov (Albanian, former Russian) and beat him in a practice match. I think Zane didn't just rise, he is rising.
LJB Posted June 20, 2023 Posted June 20, 2023 zane is rising... gillman looked as gaunt as i have ever seen him and made some seriously rookie mistake indicative of someone who had some issues... the two realizations do not have to be mutually exclusive to anyone who is not a homer...
ILLINIWrestlingBlog Posted June 20, 2023 Posted June 20, 2023 3 hours ago, LJB said: zane is rising... gillman looked as gaunt as i have ever seen him and made some seriously rookie mistake indicative of someone who had some issues... the two realizations do not have to be mutually exclusive to anyone who is not a homer... When, exactly, is the best time to get the excuses out there? 1
LJB Posted June 20, 2023 Posted June 20, 2023 1 minute ago, ILLINIWrestlingBlog said: When, exactly, is the best time to get the excuses out there? *I have used this word too much*... you spent a week talking about sweat... your boy won... good for him... i actually like zane... talked with him in vegas before his matches and after he won while he was wandering the casino late that evening after dropping nicky pushups celebrating with an ice cream (no sprinkles... that would have been too crazy)... doesn't change what happened at final x... gillman was definitely off and zane was definitely on.. and you are definitely an unabashed homer...
AKHUNTER Posted June 20, 2023 Author Posted June 20, 2023 5 hours ago, ILLINIWrestlingBlog said: Did Thomas Gilman fall, or did Zane Richards rise? Zane wrestled the World Champion Abakarov (Albanian, former Russian) and beat him in a practice match. I think Zane didn't just rise, he is rising. Zane is absolutely rising........... but Gilman is falling as well
wrestle87 Posted June 21, 2023 Posted June 21, 2023 Gilman looked like he had a terrible cut, to the extent he didn’t even look surprised by the end of match 2. He’s been at it a long time, and while I generally pull team nittany lion, his success coming out of that room at his weight was an exception rather than the rule. NLWC certainly knows how to get guys big and strong and how to be successful in new larger frames, but that is always predicated upon the availability of a relatively close next weight class to access. They have never been able to consistently produce for the 125/57kg weight class. This many years into raging success at all other weights but heavyweight, I have a hard time seeing gilman’s success as anything other than deviation from the mean. 1
Dogbone Posted June 21, 2023 Posted June 21, 2023 Making World Team is hard. Outside of the freak exceptions like Burroughs/Snyder and few others, the reality is most guys don't maintain World Team spots for sustained periods of time. The list of guys competing in 2 Olympics is small. Ramos held the spot at the lightest weight for 2 years and he was the first guy to make back to back teams at the lightest weight since Henson in 2005 and 2006. Gilman first made the team in 2017 and will be 30 next year. Unfortunately, he is on the downside of his career. Add in that USA wrestling has a better system now and we could have multiple top 5 guys at a weight plus you have to squeeze into 6 - 8 weights depending on the year and I would guess we will continue to see more turnover on the World Team, regardless if we have a defending Medalist at the weight. Also, props to USA wrestling for putting the history of all World/Olympics teams in one spot. You can go down quite the rabbit hole. https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Wrestling/Team-USA/World-Team-History 1
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