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[Truzzcat]

24 minutes ago, shiraz321 said:

There will be a trial between Mobin Azimi and Babaloo for the 97kg spot at Asian champs. I guess Azimi is a 97 now. They are sending a U23 team to Asian champs this year. 

At 70 it seems Sina Khalili will go straight to Asian champs, they didn't even invite Elahi to the national camp!

 

I would be pretty angry if I was Elahi, Khalili won one match in Croatia, didn't have to wrestle his semi final because James Green got injured, and got teched in the final. Elahi lost to the Azeri who teched Khalili by a closer margin. I think Khalili has a brighter future but this seems unfair to me. Although of course favouritism is not new in Iranian wrestling. 

 

 

Azarpira is not the rep for Asian champs?

[shiraz321]

4 minutes ago, Truzzcat said:

Azarpira is not the rep for Asian champs?

Azarpira got injured in the olympics when Tazudinov laced him. He will come back later in the year. I don't think he would be going even if he was ready. While he is under 23, it seems they want to send a B/inexperienced team to this tournament. 

I think the team to asian champs will be

57 - valizadeh

61 - Javan

65- ebrahimzadeh

70 - khalili

74 - rezai

79 - yousefi

86 - rahmani

92 - firouzpour

97 - trial winner

125 - masoumi

 

 

[Truzzcat]

8 minutes ago, shiraz321 said:

Azarpira got injured in the olympics when Tazudinov laced him. He will come back later in the year. I don't think he would be going even if he was ready. While he is under 23, it seems they want to send a B/inexperienced team to this tournament. 

I think the team to asian champs will be

57 - valizadeh

61 - Javan

65- ebrahimzadeh

70 - khalili

74 - rezai

79 - yousefi

86 - rahmani

92 - firouzpour

97 - trial winner

125 - masoumi

 

 

I think Yousefi and Rezai can both be very good. Rezai has been relatively competitive with Messenbrink and Shaprio and beat Lockett all 3 of which I see being contenders for the US in 2028. Yousefi's win over gamerkelidze was very impressive.

[Lucho]

59 minutes ago, shiraz321 said:

There will be a trial between Mobin Azimi and Babaloo for the 97kg spot at Asian champs. I guess Azimi is a 97 now. They are sending a U23 team to Asian champs this year. 

At 70 it seems Sina Khalili will go straight to Asian champs, they didn't even invite Elahi to the national camp!

 

I would be pretty angry if I was Elahi, Khalili won one match in Croatia, didn't have to wrestle his semi final because James Green got injured, and got teched in the final. Elahi lost to the Azeri who teched Khalili by a closer margin. I think Khalili has a brighter future but this seems unfair to me. Although of course favouritism is not new in Iranian wrestling. 

 

 

That's a really stupid decision imo. 70kg should be a wrestle off between Elahi and Khalili, Elahi at least deserves a chance given he won Iran nationals and neither of them looked particularly impressive in Zagreb. In fact I would argue Karampour should also be given a chance to compete as well I'm pretty sure he ended up winning U23 worlds last year considering the other two didn't win gold. For 97kg I would like to see Hajiloueian wrestle between Azimi and Babaloo as well. I don't know how Azimi is going to look wrestle well at 97kg when he looked lifeless at 92kg... Dorostkar proving again he has no idea what he is doing and that Reza Yazdani should take over as HC.