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.

[D3 for LU]

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[Booger]

Cool beans!

Definitely well worth the wait... thankee Truzzcat-ee!

Edited Saturday at 08:00 PM by Booger

[D3 for LU]

Well... the U23 World Wrestling championships begin tomorrow @ 4am on FLO.

Greco gets it's start... the following weight classes and the US reps:

63 kg – Kaden Ercanbrack

77 kg – Aydin Rix McElhinney

87 kg – Payton Jacobson

130 kg – Aden Attao 

They all start their tournament.

Good Luck!

D3

 

 

Edited 22 hours ago by D3 for LU

[Truzzcat]

8 minutes ago, D3 for LU said:

Well... the U23 World Wrestling championships begin tomorrow @ 4am on FLO.

Greco gets it's start... the following weight classes and the US reps:

63 kg – Kaden Ercanbrack

77 kg – Aydin Rix McElhinney

87 kg – Payton Jacobson

130 kg – Aden Attao 

They all start their tournament.

Good Luck!

D3

 

 

will not be joining you for greco but I will get u for free!

[ScottishSteel]

@Jon_Kozak

I tried to set FloAlerts for U23s in the new system . . . according to the teams tab; only 2 Americans are on the Greco roster (Rix Mcellhinney and Jacobson) despite obviously 4 going today and the other 6 weights also having wrestlers

And Rix Mcellhinney wrestled and lost without an any texts coming through

[D3 for LU]

7 hours ago, Truzzcat said:

will not be joining you for greco but I will get u for free!

Tis okay, Truzz... I didn't expect the internet to crash w/ all the posters "clamoring" for greco! 

D3

[D3 for LU]

18 minutes ago, ScottishSteel said:

@Jon_Kozak

I tried to set FloAlerts for U23s in the new system . . . according to the teams tab; only 2 Americans are on the Greco roster (Rix Mcellhinney and Jacobson) despite obviously 4 going today and the other 6 weights also having wrestlers

And Rix Mcellhinney wrestled and lost without an any texts coming through

tanxs for the updates, Scott-Steel... I didn't expect to get up early to catch the start!

D3

[D3 for LU]

Qualif Day 1

 

Mat A

Upcoming Matches

GR - 87 kg	Qualif.	8	(POL) Yassine BEN LABED (22)	(ARM) Ruben GEVORGYAN (23)
GR - 63 kg	Qualif.	9	(UWW) Dordzhi SHUNGURTSIKOV (8)	(MEX) Angel Gabriel SEGURA TELLEZ (9)
GR - 63 kg	Qualif.	10	(GEO) Romeo BERIDZE (16)	(EGY) Adham Ayman Gharib Abdou ELSAYED (17)
GR - 130 kg	Qualif.	11	(UKR) Mykhailo VYSHNYVETSKYI (9)	(TUR) Cemal Yusuf BAKIR (10)
GR - 130 kg	Qualif.	12	(UWW) Aleksandr MELEKHOV (18)	(SRB) David MOLNAR (19)
GR - 77 kg	1/8 Final	13	(IRI) Ahoura Malek Mohammad BOUVEIRI PIANI (5)	(KAZ) Yeldos KAMELOV (7)
GR - 77 kg	1/8 Final	14	(IND) Ankit ANKIT (15)	(SRB) Zalan PEK (17)
GR - 77 kg	1/8 Final	15	(HUN) Levente LEVAI (26)	(NOR) Benjamin HANSEN (28)
GR - 87 kg	1/8 Final	16	(ITA) Leon RIVALTA (9)
GR - 87 kg	1/8 Final	17
GR - 63 kg	1/8 Final	18	(ALB) Ergi UKU (7)
GR - 63 kg	1/8 Final	19		(BUL) Kristiyan Svetoslavov MILENKOV (18)
GR - 130 kg	1/8 Final	20	(GEO) Saba CHILASHVILI (1)	(IRI) Fardin Shaban HEDAYATI (2)
GR - 130 kg	1/8 Final	21		(USA) Aden Ikaika Hammar ATTAO (11)
GR - 130 kg	1/8 Final	22	(KAZ) Jokhar UZAROV (17)
GR - 77 kg	1/4 Final	23
GR - 87 kg	1/4 Final	24
GR - 63 kg	1/4 Final	25
GR - 63 kg	1/4 Final	26
GR - 130 kg	1/4 Final	27
GR - 130 kg	1/4 Final	28

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Edited 15 hours ago by D3 for LU

[D3 for LU]

Mat B

Upcoming Matches

GR - 87 kg	Qualif.	35	(BUL) Ivaylo Plamen IVANOV (18)	(KAZ) Maksat SAILAU (19)
GR - 87 kg	Qualif.	36	(GRE) Evangelos Fotios BOUKIS (24)	(GER) Deni NAKAEV (25)
GR - 63 kg	Qualif.	37	(ARM) Davit JOTYAN (2)	(ECU) Jeremy Renzo PERALTA GONZALEZ (3)
GR - 63 kg	Qualif.	38	(AZE) Ziya BABASHOV (10)	(JPN) Miruto TOKUHIGA (11)
GR - 63 kg	Qualif.	39	(CHN) Xiaoli FAN (20)	(UKR) Vadym MATROS (21)
GR - 130 kg	Qualif.	40	(KGZ) Nurbolot Zamirbekovich TOKTOGONOV (3)	(JPN) Ayumu IWASAWA (4)
GR - 130 kg	Qualif.	41	(VEN) Luis Enrique TALAVERA LUNA (14)	(CZE) Artur SARKISJAN (15)
GR - 77 kg	1/8 Final	42	(GEO) Temuri ORJONIKIDZE (8)	(MDA) Alexandru SOLOVEI (10)
GR - 77 kg	1/8 Final	43	(UKR) Irfan MIRZOIEV (19)	(TUR) Muslim BARGA (20)
GR - 87 kg	1/8 Final	44	(KGZ) Artykbek ALYMBEK UULU (1)	(UWW) Zaur SHANGEREEV (3)
GR - 87 kg	1/8 Final	45		(UZB) Murodjon ALIMJANOV (14)
GR - 87 kg	1/8 Final	46
GR - 63 kg	1/8 Final	47	(USA) Kaden Moreno ERCANBRACK (1)
GR - 63 kg	1/8 Final	48		(IRI) Mohammad Javad Mohammad ABOUTALEBI NAVID (12)
GR - 63 kg	1/8 Final	49	(NED) Ilias LAAOUINA (19)
GR - 130 kg	1/8 Final	50		(GRE) Grigorios KONTOVOUNISIOS (5)
GR - 130 kg	1/8 Final	51	(UWW) Ilya SHUMCHYK (12)	(ARM) Razmik KURDYAN (13)
GR - 130 kg	1/8 Final	52	(AZE) Aykhan MARDANOV (20)	(CHN) Shuangyu CHEN (21)
GR - 77 kg	1/4 Final	53
GR - 77 kg	1/4 Final	54
GR - 87 kg	1/4 Final	55
GR - 63 kg	1/4 Final	56
GR - 130 kg	1/4 Final	57

 

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Edited 15 hours ago by D3 for LU

[D3 for LU]

 

Mat C

Upcoming Matches

GR - 87 kg	Qualif.	64	(EGY) Mahmoud Walid Abdelfattah IBRAHIM (20)	(FRA) Vladimeri KARCHAIDZE (21)
GR - 87 kg	Qualif.	65	(ALB) Ali BAHOLLI (26)	(FIN) Elias Konsta Johannes LYYSKI (27)
GR - 63 kg	Qualif.	66	(SRB) Andrej VELISAVLJEV (4)	(TUR) Servet ANGI (5)
GR - 63 kg	Qualif.	67	(MDA) Vitalie ERIOMENCO (14)	(KAZ) Nurdaulet KAPAS (15)
GR - 63 kg	Qualif.	68	(KGZ) Kuttubek Abdurazakovich ABDURAZAKOV (22)	(UZB) Khusniddin OLIMBOEV (23)
GR - 130 kg	Qualif.	69	(UZB) Damirkhon RAKHMATOV (7)	(IND) Joginder RATHEE (8)
GR - 77 kg	1/8 Final	70	(UZB) Doniyorkhon NAKIBOV (1)	(EGY) Yehia Mohamed Yehia ABDELKADER (2)
GR - 77 kg	1/8 Final	71	(CZE) Michal ZELENKA (12)	(SWE) Karl Edvin Hugo BAFF (14)
GR - 77 kg	1/8 Final	72	(ARM) Samvel TERTERYAN (23)	(UWW) Ismail BARAKHOEV (25)
GR - 87 kg	1/8 Final	73	(USA) Payton Jon JACOBSON (5)	(MDA) Gabriel LUPASCO (7)
GR - 87 kg	1/8 Final	74	(GEO) Achiko BOLKVADZE (15)
GR - 87 kg	1/8 Final	75		(VEN) Brian Jesus RUIZ MARIN (28)
GR - 63 kg	1/8 Final	76		(GRE) Ilias ZAIRAKIS (6)
GR - 63 kg	1/8 Final	77	(SWE) Jan Algot Erik GAMELIUS (13)
GR - 63 kg	1/8 Final	78		(IND) Gaurav GAURAV (24)
GR - 130 kg	1/8 Final	79	(HUN) Laszlo DARABOS (6)
GR - 130 kg	1/8 Final	80		(EST) Robin USPENSKI (16)
GR - 77 kg	1/4 Final	81
GR - 87 kg	1/4 Final	82
GR - 87 kg	1/4 Final	83
GR - 63 kg	1/4 Final	84
GR - 130 kg	1/4 Final	85

 

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Edited 15 hours ago by D3 for LU

[ScottishSteel]

Looks like Peyton Jacobson won 8 - 0; I missed it (never got the on deck text)

My dog got sprayed by a skunk when I took him out ahead of the tourney starting so I'm not going to be super reliable for updates this AM

[D3 for LU]

4 minutes ago, ScottishSteel said:

Looks like Peyton Jacobson won 8 - 0; I missed it (never got the on deck text)

My dog got sprayed by a skunk when I took him out ahead of the tourney starting so I'm not going to be super reliable for updates this AM

... hope you got a bunch of cans of tomato juice!

Good Luck Scott-Steel!

D3

[D3 for LU]

A wild one on Mat A... GR - 87 kg    Qualif.    8    (POL) Yassine BEN LABED (22)  leading 9-6 over    (ARM) Ruben GEVORGYAN (23) at the break

D3

[ScottishSteel]

8 minutes ago, D3 for LU said:

... hope you got a bunch of cans of tomato juice!

Good Luck Scott-Steel!

D3

Fun of living out in the farmlands!

[D3 for LU]

50 minutes ago, ScottishSteel said:

@Jon_Kozak
And Rix Mcellhinney wrestled and lost without an any texts coming through

confirm loss...4-1 to the Georgian.

D3

[D3 for LU]

Just now, D3 for LU said:

confirm loss...4-1 to the Georgian.

D3

Went to the UWW U23 site to get the results... they don't list the scores from the prelims in the brackets (not enough room to put it, I guess.)

D3

[D3 for LU]

Well... I got to get going soon to work.

Anyone that's game to continue, please do so.

D3

[de4856]

Payton Jacobson, having quite the tournament so far. Hopefully he can continue his winning ways. 

[D3 for LU]

Lets see what happened this morning.

63Kg USA ERCANBRACK  lost to ECU PERALTA GONZ J. via TF 9-0 in 1:51.

Ecuador's Gonzalez then lost to TURkiye's ANGI S. (5) in similar fashion (9-0TF in 1:14)

He's eliminated.

77Kg USA RIX MCELHINNEY A. (9) is still alive as his Georgian opponent is now in the semis.

87Kg Payton Jacobson IS IN the semis vs Iran!

130Kg Attao lost in the QF to Hungary's Darabos (quick TF at :33 8-0)... waiting for the semis for Attao's fate.

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