U23 World Champoinships...

[MPhillips]

21 minutes ago, D3 for LU said:

Truzzcat, you'll have until next Friday

No. He doesn't...

[nhs67]

1 hour ago, Truzzcat said:

I will do it at the airport today!

YESSSSS!

[D3 for LU]

1 hour ago, MPhillips said:

No. He doesn't...

Well... IF he's doesn't do GR & Women's FS, he has before next Friday the 24th.

UNLESS, you want those remaining FS weights figured out before he gets on that jet!

Then NO... he doesn't (get busy, Truzz!)

D3

[bnwtwg]

On 10/16/2025 at 8:31 AM, Truzzcat said:

I will do it at the airport today!

On 10/16/2025 at 9:34 AM, nhs67 said:

YESSSSS!

In my finest Morgan Freeman voice: "In fact, he did not do it today. Or the day after. Or the day after that. Perhaps Truzzcat does not care about the young fatties of the upper weight classes and will never provide the predictive analysis desired by others on a random internet forum. For shame."

[MPhillips]

 

[Truzzcat]

with my modern day coffee and cigarette (Zyn and energy drink I bring you pt 2)

 

79kg: 
Favorites: Levi haines (Senior world Silver), Mahdi Youseffi (u23 gold, 2x u20 gold)

Medal threats: Davud Daudov (u23 russian national champion), Chandermohan (u23 asian gold, junior bronze)

There is a lot being made about Youseffi vs Haines and surprisingly to me a lot of people picking Youseffi. Youseffis best win this year is Saipudinov who haines has also beaten twice. However after watching him struggle with Henckel who I think is very similar to Levi but less physically mature and not as good positionally yet, I cannot really see this match going well for Youseffi. Similarly to how it was at Seniors this weight is not particularly deep this year.

Predictions: 
Gold: Levi
Silver: Youseffi
Bronze: Chandermohan
Bronze: Daudov

86kg: 
Favorites: Rahmani (senior gold, u20 bronze), Rocco welsh, Mukhhammad abdullaev (2x u20 bronze), Ali tckoev (u20 bronze), Arsen Balaian (u20 bronze) 

This weight lacks a clear and far away favorite, and I could see all of the above wrestlers coming away with gold. Prior to u20's Rahmani would have certainly been the favorite here after he was competitive with zahid and Ghas. However after losing to Max he definitely feels much more beatable. Tckoev has been ranked on the senior level and is very long he will be a tricky matchup for Rocco stylistically.

Predictions:
Gold: Rahmani
Silver: Tckoev
Bronze: Rocco
Bronze: Balaian

92kg: 
Favorites: Josh Barr (u20 silver,  Muhkhamed Khaniev (u23 euro gold, cadet gold), Sherzod Poyonov (u20 gold), Azimi (u20 gold, Senior asian bronze at 97kg)

medal threats: Magomed Shapirov (2x senior world participant),

This weight is pretty brutal, Poyonov won Mirasolas weight at u20's and looked great. Khaniev is the older brother of the khaniev that beat dee locket and the younger brother of the khaniev that could be Mitchells biggest threat at 74kg. He teched his way through euros. Barr wrestled Trent arguably as well as anyone this year but its hard to know if trent got better after final x or if barr just had the perfect gameplan to slow him down. I do not know a ton about Azimi but his senior asian run up a weight is very impressive.

Predictions:
Gold: Khaniev
Silver: Barr
Bronze: Poyonov
Bronze: Azimi

97kg: I do not think we are going to medal here Atimukhan and Yoshida are both entered and will be heavy favorites to make the finals. Irans Babaloo is also a former u20 world champ

125kg: Similar sentiment to 97kg. I think Nezhad from Iran is the favorite to win, and little geno is up at heavy now like big bro and I am interested to see how his style translates with the big boys.