shiraz321 Posted May 31 Posted May 31 39 minutes ago, Irani said: Youssefi had a nice win https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKIDGPXue4O/?igsh=NjZiM2M3MzIxNA== That's from asian champs last month
Irani Posted June 1 Author Posted June 1 5 hours ago, shiraz321 said: That's from asian champs last month Oops, thanks for correcting me. I have no idea why that was in my Instagram feed today
Lucho Posted June 1 Posted June 1 11 hours ago, shiraz321 said: Yones Emami beats Yazdani 4 - 3 to make the world team. I was really hoping AM Yazdani would have made the world team but it looks like it wasn't meant to be. I don't really know why we struggle so much to find a proper 74kg rep. Emami is going to lose badly at worlds this year.
Lucho Posted June 1 Posted June 1 19 hours ago, Irani said: Sohrabi wins gold in Mongolia https://khanehkoshti.ir/تورنمنت-رنکینگ-مغولستان؛-قهرمانی-دان/ Since moving up from 67kg he has looked really solid. I hope he ends up winning a medal this year at worlds but from memory 72kg is surprisingly quite stacked with a lot of contenders. Him and Firouzpour are really the only two I can think of that have stepped up from the recent crop of U23s (apart from Masoumi) into the senior level.
Irani Posted June 1 Author Posted June 1 Iranian wrestler wins gold for Qatar https://www.instagram.com/p/DKPMmIyB62b/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Irani Posted June 1 Author Posted June 1 Iran results at the Mongolia Ranking tournament https://khanehkoshti.ir/جام-اوپن-مغولستان؛-بذری-و-بابایی-طلایی/
Irani Posted June 5 Author Posted June 5 There are rumors that Massoumi is being recruited by Armenia. He added fuel to the fire by posting the flag of Armenia in his social media account. 1
wrestlingfan22 Posted June 5 Posted June 5 14 hours ago, Irani said: There are rumors that Massoumi is being recruited by Armenia. He added fuel to the fire by posting the flag of Armenia in his social media account. Would make a lot of sense...
shiraz321 Posted June 5 Posted June 5 Does Armenia even recruit foreign wrestlers? Off the top of my head all their guys are home grown. I don't think they pay their medalists well either. I would guess Masoumi will wrestle for another country, but I don't think it will be Armenia.
Shibboleth Posted June 6 Posted June 6 12 hours ago, shiraz321 said: Does Armenia even recruit foreign wrestlers? Off the top of my head all their guys are home grown. I don't think they pay their medalists well either. I would guess Masoumi will wrestle for another country, but I don't think it will be Armenia. They used to. a few famous Russians wrestled for Armenia in late years in their careers. Khadzhimurad Gatsalov and Georgy Ketoev did. Armenia's last medalist at heavyweight is also an import - Levan Berianidze, a Georgian. Bronze in 2017 world. I think he's retired now as he probably weights way something closer to 150 kg or more.
Window12 Posted June 6 Posted June 6 I suspect Bahrain or Qatar may be better choice financially. Bahrain could also become a force not only in 97 but also in 125 kg… 2
Window12 Posted June 6 Posted June 6 Also there would be less chance of a backlash for him Bulgarian style
Interviewed_at_Weehawken Posted June 6 Posted June 6 17 minutes ago, Window12 said: I suspect Bahrain or Qatar may be better choice financially. Bahrain could also become a force not only in 97 but also in 125 kg… But, I can see a problem if the very tall, very young Taz fills out a bit more.
Window12 Posted June 6 Posted June 6 5 minutes ago, Interviewed_at_Weehawken said: But, I can see a problem if the very tall, very young Taz fills out a bit more. Good point. It’s is getting more complicated.. 2
Irani Posted June 6 Author Posted June 6 19 hours ago, shiraz321 said: Does Armenia even recruit foreign wrestlers? Off the top of my head all their guys are home grown. I don't think they pay their medalists well either. I would guess Masoumi will wrestle for another country, but I don't think it will be Armenia. You raise an excellent point. Financially Qatar or Bahrain would be the best choices so far, there are no rumors of those countries recruiting him. Only Armenia and Azerbaijan the nice thing about Armenia is that he could change his name to Massoumian and fit it nicely 2
GrandOlm Posted June 7 Posted June 7 8 hours ago, Irani said: You raise an excellent point. Financially Qatar or Bahrain would be the best choices so far, there are no rumors of those countries recruiting him. Only Armenia and Azerbaijan the nice thing about Armenia is that he could change his name to Massoumian and fit it nicely Azerbaijan are one the biggest mercenary teams around. I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up there.
GrandOlm Posted June 7 Posted June 7 (edited) 13 hours ago, Window12 said: Also there would be less chance of a backlash for him Bulgarian style Hasn't that all turned out to be noise and meaningless grandstanding? The flo people seem very sure that the 86 kg transfer will continue competing. Bulgaria have been like this for 30 years, it's not going to be easy to change. Bulgaria is also an extreme case of going from the second best greco nation in the world, to a complete paper tiger that only stays afloat by buying wrestlers from foreign countries. I don't think Armenia has that freestyle wrestling tradition. They didn't even send anyone to 125kg at 2023 worlds. Edited June 7 by GrandOlm
Window12 Posted June 7 Posted June 7 (edited) 10 hours ago, GrandOlm said: Hasn't that all turned out to be noise and meaningless grandstanding? The flo people seem very sure that the 86 kg transfer will continue competing. Bulgaria have been like this for 30 years, it's not going to be easy to change. Bulgaria is also an extreme case of going from the second best greco nation in the world, to a complete paper tiger that only stays afloat by buying wrestlers from foreign countries. I don't think Armenia has that freestyle wrestling tradition. They didn't even send anyone to 125kg at 2023 worlds. Yes- All the noise about foreign wrestlers taking the places for indigenous athletes, coming from Bulgaria does seem to have gone quiet which is understandable. If you have some current reigning Olympic champions albeit trained elsewhere, it makes much sense to let them get on with it specially if the ranks of home grown talent are not at the same level. Although in the long run it will make it more difficult to recruit others.... but perhaps that was the point. Edited June 7 by Window12
shiraz321 Posted June 8 Posted June 8 Well it seems there is at least some possibility of him going to Armenia. Very surprising. Maybe they recently increased funding for their wrestling program because I would think there are far more lucrative offers from other countries.
Irani Posted June 8 Author Posted June 8 Apparently, Armenian media is now substantiating the rumors شایعه تغییر تابعیت امیررضا معصومی از زبان رسانههای ارمنستانی
Irani Posted June 8 Author Posted June 8 Azarpira is back from his surgery https://khanehkoshti.ir/بازگشت-طلایی-آذرپیرا-به-تشک-کشتی/
shiraz321 Posted June 9 Posted June 9 3 hours ago, wrestlingfan22 said: Would he be able to compete at World's this year? I think the rule is you need to sit out 2 years from the last date you represented your original country internationally, which for Masoumi would be the 2025 Asian championships. But i'm not a 100% sure on that.
nhs67 Posted June 9 Posted June 9 1 hour ago, shiraz321 said: I think the rule is you need to sit out 2 years from the last date you represented your original country internationally, which for Masoumi would be the 2025 Asian championships. But i'm not a 100% sure on that. I thought it pertained to Worlds or Olympics only? 1 "I know actually nothing. It isn't even conjecture at this point." - me
shiraz321 Posted June 9 Posted June 9 9 hours ago, nhs67 said: I thought it pertained to Worlds or Olympics only? Not sure. Thought it was last UWW tournament. Maybe someone can enlighten us. 2
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