Josh Barr?

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

How impressive is Barr's 10-1 win over Lucas Cochran and his 11-0 win over Mirasola?

Cochran beat #8 HWT Yaraslau Slavikouski 8-3 last year while weighing under 197 pounds.

[Truzzcat]

1 hour ago, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

How impressive is Barr's 10-1 win over Lucas Cochran and his 11-0 win over Mirasola?

Cochran beat #8 HWT Yaraslau Slavikouski 8-3 last year while weighing under 197 pounds.

Everyone brings up the Slav win which was awesome, but they always fail to mention that he lost to Cardenas 13-6 and Beard 20-6. The Barr match was also 2-1 with 40 seconds to go and cochran was in on a shot that I will say Barr maneuvered out of masterfully. As far as the Mirasola win goes I think it more so shows that he is not where I thought he would be coming out of high school. Sinclair teched him at senior trials and then sinclair went on to lose to Andy smith pretty badly so I think we may have had too high of expectations for those guys. I do think Barr is absolutely in contention to AA but with as deep as 197 is this year I am not placing him high on my podium at least not yet.

[Pinnacle]

Truzzcat, the one thing I am noticing is that vs. the last two years I think Barr is growing in confidence. Mentally I think he is ready to start to win a round of 16 or quarterfinals match at NCAA. I think even against Cochran I have to respect how he closed that match out.

[Truzzcat]

One thing I wanted to add if there was any truth to what Mineo said about the wrestle off. We now have two data points where Josh Barr in a short period fo time was able to make some pretty crazy adjustments. The Sinclair matches and now this. If that were all to be true I would not be betting against Barr when he gets a second crack against guys.