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i just got off the phone with a member on the staff. he said Sammy is doing good and walking on his own and doing rehab. take it for what it's worth. perhaps there's more going on and they don't want to say much. or perhaps it's exactly as they told me. i've talked to his mother once right after it happened. and i've thought about contact sammy or his parents again. but i also want to respect their privacy and not be that guy at this time.

What a run. Looking forward to the touching moment at the medal ceremony when Tazhudinov tears up hearing the Bahrain national anthem for the first time.

Dake’s style at the world level has become increasingly more agitating. And it’s why magic man has surpassed him. Anyone who’s ever watched Dake in his career knows he can do so much more offensively. But he’s content to try and win every match against a competent opponent 3-0 while hugging his opponents in chest wraps as often as he can. I have no idea why he’s decided to pigeonhole himself into that. Meanwhile, DT says I’m going to pour it on anyone, anywhere as much as I want to. I wish Dake would start wrestling with that mindset.

Sounds like you have a Very Peculiar Need to watch an event and given Flo's questionable business practices it causes us fans to Vent Profusely Needlessly. It's too bad they don't offer an easier way to View Particular Noteworthy events.

I’ve done a ton of these. I call them “Wroppelgangers” on my own page/site. Carson Kharkla (SP?) of Ohio State = Biff from Back To The Future. Tom/Terry= the T-1000 Terminator from Terminator 2! Austin Desanto of Iowa= Christopher Moltisanti from The Sopranos! Austin Moltisanto! Hayden Hidlay of NC State= Billy Idol Cael Sanderson = Sling Blade Aaron Brooks of PSU= Skee-Lo Brennan Swafford of Iowa = white Mike Tyson Dalton Doud of Ottumwa HS = Nick Suriano of many places. Cobe Siebrecht of Iowa = Jim Morrison of The Doors Danny Stephani (2X Sup HWT State Champ out of Iowa in the ‘80s) = Jack Black Nelson Brands of Iowa = 2023 NBA Slam Dunk Champ, Mac McClung of the 76ers! Kaleb Young of Iowa = The bad guy from the movie “The Mask.”

To be honest, one of the worst takes ever on this forum. Dude has medaled in every world/Olympic tournament since 2015, with basically the only thing keeping him from have more golds was the best pound-for-pound wrestler in the world. It would be one thing to say Snyder appears to be slipping a little, but at this point he will still perform better than anyone else we could put out there.

David Taylor is going to break two Iranians in the next 20 minutes

I don't understand why Snyder is put in the same boat as Taylor and Dake. If DT and KD were to retire now Snyder would have to compete at five more Worlds/Olympics just to get to the same age. By that time he will have 14 Worlds/Olympics medals. He is 27 years old.

Time for a Mongolian Protest!

Sadulaev and Snyder

The Sadulaev I saw looked like he was working on a move to 125, not 86.

After Kagami won, almost all of their Olympic team is complete. Japan's rule is that if you medal at this World Championships at an Olympic weight, the Olympic spot is yours. So: 50kg- Susaki(2023 World Champion) 53kg- Fujinami(In the finals tomorrow night) 57kg- Sakurai(2023 World Champion) 62kg- Motoki(In the finals tomorrow night) 68kg-Ishii if she wins bronze tomorrow night 76kg- Kagami(2023 World Champion)

Wow, this MFS tourney took some unexpected twists. I mean I didn’t see Micic winning Gold or SeaBass winning Silver. I didn’t see many of the big names from Europe and what not, having the outcomes that they had. Honestly I didn’t think Zain would win Gold either, but he really was focused, and got it done. Vito, has looked like he’s been on a mission for a while now, but I didn’t see him winning the title but I did think he’d medal with a Silver or Bronze. So great for Vito, question is, what does he do in 24, like Zain Zahid knocked off a very tough Iranian and then lost, and I thought he reversed Metcalf himself, but he crunched his way to the Bronze medal, excellent effort. Parris wow, I mean wow, he almost got into the finals so I like what I saw from him. I think Parris will hold down the spot for the immediate future anyway. Dake I think he’s having weight issues, (I don’t have any inside info), but that’s what it looks like to me. He just doesn’t look like he’s the same Dake bomb kind of guy. I know that he’s probably heavily scouted, so there is that, but he just doesn’t seem to move around like he used to. I could be wrong though. Snyder, well obviously the landscape is changing, with up and comers, from Bahrain, Georgia, Azerbaijan, question is what can Snyder do. I think he’s definitely going to have to analyze everything that went on here and make some adjustments. Lee, did well, he looked better than he looked earlier in the year, so I was kind of impressed. Richards is a very good wrestler, and I don’t know if he makes another team, but if he does, I believe he will do much better. Marsteller, is also a a very good wrestler and I put him in basically the same position as Richards. And then there’s David Taylor, well what can you say, he’s like a wrestling immortal, he’s just on another level. It makes me think though, how good Aaron Brooks must be.

Kyle Dake just got done with his daily functional pattern movements in his Belgrade Hostel room of red light bulbs and organic fish matter. He is now in a deep trance, sleeping naked upside down, hanging from copper leg shackles that are wired into the heart of mother Earth. The New Dawn will not be kind to Sidakov

Zane would like to have that back. He had the only takedown in a 2-3 loss, while the Azeri Euro Championships Gold had two pushouts and a shot clock. I would just note that the one takedown in the match was so beautiful and effortless, if Zane had done that to Gilman, everybody would say Gilman was not Gilman. Will Rzazade make the Finals? Very long odds. Even though he's this year's Euro Gold at 57 kg, the 61 kg Euro Gold and the last World Champion at 57 kg (Abakarov) is still in it, along with dark horse Aman Aman of India and World and Olympic champ Uguev of Z. They're all on Rzazade's side of the bracket, too. So, he'll need to beat two of them. But don't feel sorry for Zane. Feel sorry for me. After the match, I started drinking. I'm two beers in and my wife has already thrown me out of the house for complaining about the pancakes. I just wish she'd thrown me out before I took the call from my boss, who wanted me to come in to work tomorrow, and I slurred at him, "**** off." He said, "You're fired," and I said, "Fine, see if you can find a better french fry guy in Myrtle Beach." Now, I'm resorting to free internet at the library.

John and Johnny

I like having Ban around because then I’m not the dumbest person allowed to wander outside The Zoo walls. He’s like the husband in my wife’s friend group that swears by crypto - I look good by default with that knuckle head at the dinner table.

Page 5 of 5. Weasel words are the true victors. There was no inferring even being attempted or insinuating until BB lost the bet. Then he weaseled out of it. Under technicality, @jrossis correct. It was clear that BB weaseled out of having to pay by saying he inferred a different set of dates. There was no reason for anybody to believe otherwise aside for himself which was a deliberate attempted at being a turdbiscuit (you know what I am saying here, gents). I must applaud his tenacity in claiming he won that exchange. He lost. Everybody lost and left the thread even more stupid than before they entered it as a direct result of his (BB) poor attempt at being a turdbiscuit. For that and that alone he should have to donate $2k to CKWC for having wasted my time twice now. The first time in 2012 and the second time just now.

Beef short ribs. They aren’t as dry than they look. This was the first cut. Taste was good but I would have preferred to get them on 8 hours, but can’t really justify doing the smoker that long for basically one plate of food.

Or it could just be that Cael creates an environment that prioritizes spiritual/mental health and not being overly obsessed with the results. Perhaps he shows the athletes, with his own actions and faith, that wrestling is something they do - not who they are. It probably is very freeing for the athletes to compete and not have their whole identity teetering on whether they win or lose.

If we harken back to days of yore when freshman were not eligible to wrestle there were a number of dominant wrestlers who left us with a bunch of what ifs. Among the three timers in the three time era (100%ers) who would have won as a freshman? Maybe that Sanderson guy wasn't so special. Maybe Pat Smith shouldn't have been the first. After all, there were 15 of these guys and 6 of them were undefeated. Surely one of them would have won as a freshman and done it in style. Like the answer to the question "how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?", the world will never know. But we can know what the intersection of their careers and modern careers looks like. Instead of adding fictional titles and points to past champions, lets do the more recent guys dirty and subtract titles and points. If we subtract the first year of competition and just focus on years they all have in common, years two through four (sorry Myles and Jaydin), who scored the most NCAA points? Without further ado, I present your new king of the hill: Zain Retherford. A few other observations: In the spirit of subtraction, I decided to also subtract the 5 points Dan Gable earned in his two pigtail matches from when brackets could be just about any size. If we look at it on a per match basis Dan Hodge would take his rightful seat on the throne as he scored his 80 points in just 13 matches, while the others at or near the top did it in 15 matches. Bonus points are huge (too huge? let the debate begin). The third and fourth positions are occupied by guys who only went 2 for 3 in their last three years. But, boy did they do it in style, with Dan Gable putting up a perfect 30 points in 1969 and David Taylor scoring 29.5 in 2012.

Oh no don't dare bring that up. 57/65/74/86/97/125 are the chosen weights for a reason. Did you know that John Smith, a legendary American Cowboy from a previous generation, found them inscribed on golden tablets in the ancient caves of Fila. Declaring himself the chosen one, he presented his mythical findings to his deacons at the village of Lausanne, SUI. As a result he was declared a Prophet of United World Wrestling and his lineage leads the Church of Tweener Gripes of Latter Day Weights. The most prominent of his kin, Markus, was recently anointed bishop of one of those Latter Day Weights where his flock presented him with a medal of bronze in the city of Belgrade.

i think missing one year of eligibility is a fair punishment. anything less than a loss of 1 ncaa tournament is meaningless. i just wish it wasn't their last year of eligibility.

Dresser said he would host one so we could qualify 5 per weight!

I stopped reading after this garbage

We literally just won a World Medal at 97 less than a week ago. Define “not performing.”

Belgrade is an interesting intersection between Europe and Russia. The old part of the city is a great walking city. The streets are always busy and very safe. All day and night there are woman in groups and singly walking everywhere. There are large swaths of pedestrian only streets and interesting things to see. An uncountable number of resteraunts and cafes lined all of the inner city. And we hit a fair number. The Soviet feel comes from the immense amount of crumbling concrete. Crumbling building facades especially. But near the arena it is a spectacular amount of very bad concrete as far as the eye can see. The steps up to the arena are down right comically bad trip hazard on top of trip hazard. And the plaza is full of ankle breakers. None of this would pass building codes in the US. It is really hard to describe just how bad the concrete was. They would be amazed at the advances in concrete the west has made. The inside of the arena was completely different and quite nice. Except for the bathrooms. Those were a weird experience. Apparently they do not have toilet paper or paper towels. There are not even holders for them. No soap. No working hand dryers. We took to bringing TP from the hotel just in case. On the plus side, the wrestling and running of the event were great. All very professionally done. Excellent production values to support amazing athletes. On the non-wrestling plus side, the hospitality was fantastic. One of the bartenders from the hotel came to watch wrestling with us today. The food was amazing. And the portions were ridiculously large while the prices were ridiculously low. The wife and I really enjoyed the trip.

No way micic knows the words to that anthem. Milli vanilli could do a better job

Obviously you can prefer what you want. But you're looking at it with a decided folkstyle bent and then deciding that it doesn't make sense because it doesn't follow a folkstyle philosophy. People in the rest of the world would go nuts if it were scored just 2 for Blue. Folkstyle philosophy wants decided control over a period of time. International styles are more about making the other move the way you want him to move- in particular by exposing his back. Even if only for a split second.

That was an awesome final, regardless of the winner. D3

The Community Colleges 2023-'24 wrestling season has gotten underway... albeit in California (where there are presently nearly two dozen active men's CC wrestling teams). For more info on that front: https://www.caccwrestling.com/ Wouldn't it be nice to have more CC & junior college wrestling teams nationwide? California consistently demonstrates that maintaining a healthy quantity can be achieved, and with suspenseful team title chases keeping things interesting, too. Elsewhere in the USA, there are around 55 community college / JUCO wrestling teams for men: https://productiverecruit.com/mens-wrestling/junior-colleges Meanwhile we are seeing some community colleges & JUCOs launch club teams: http://www.ncwa.net/teams There are now reportedly nearly two dozen JUCO / CC wrestling teams for women, too: https://www.njcaa.org/sports/wwrest/teams-pages Community colleges are affordable, and at least in theory...embraced by their local communities. That means they are, in theory, less likely to shut down like Alderson Broaddus (in West Va.) seems to be doing (while alumni resistance is growing, FWIW, including from the wrestling community). Hopefully more CC & JUCO wrestling programs will emerge nationwide... Might the schools nearest you be next to add wrestling?

I don't know why I just wasted 5 minutes of my life reading this thread, but let me see if I got this right: This guy has been emailing the "contact us" link on intermat's website with complaints about the amount of Iowa coverage taking place. Willie is getting tired of reading his comments so he's set him upon this board to wreak havoc here instead. Maxwell thinks that sounds like a great idea so he blasts off with a self-titled post complaining to no one in particular about anything and everything Hawkeye related. Maxwell seems to think his post here is a direct line of conversation with Jagger, who I assume talked about Iowa in one of his recent mailbags? That's just too funny. I say we keep Maxwell around. If he is a real person, he's essentially Creed from the office just firing away typing his hot takes into a word document. If he's not a real person it's a much more sophisticated troll job than what we're used to, and I would also welcome that.

Did Jimmy & Ban hookup to produce a poster offspring?

Filleted out a prime rib, stuffed with poached lobster tails, rolled back up and now in traeger at 225-250 for 5 hours.

With the World Championships wrapped up and the College season about 6 weeks away, it is time to start revving the NCAA engine a little. Let's start by looking at All-Americans. And let's get this out of the way up front. Yes, I include the top 8 seeds from the cancelled 2020 tournament. So sue me. AA Trivia There have been 190 schools with at least one All-American. A total of 5,590 All-American honors have been shared by 3,307 wrestlers (or perhaps fewer if I have some mis-spellings). In 1981 there were only 79 All-Americans as there was no 8th place awarded at 134. Oklahoma State, at 480 AA's, is a full 32.6% ahead of Iowa's 362. The longest active streak of consecutive years with at least one All-American belongs to Iowa at 52 years. The longest dry spell is Army at 15 years. They last had an AA in 2008 (Matt Kyler, 141). The Top 5 At each team's current pace (average of 2022 and 2023): Iowa will overtake Oklahoma State for the all time lead in 2057. Penn State will overtake Iowa in 2101. Cael Sanderson will be 121 years old and still wondering if Christian Pyle has a plan. AA's By Total Wrestlers with 5 AAs: 6 Wrestlers with 4 AAs: 171 Wrestlers with 3 AAs: 447 Wrestlers with 2 AAs: 852 Wrestlers with 1 AAs: 1,830 Probability of AA by Year We are used to 33 man brackets with 8 AA's per bracket (~24%), but it wasn't always that way. Using the rules that existed at the time and @Jason Bryant's participation stats by year, the most difficult year to AA was 1970 when only 15% of wrestlers earned AA status. Where the AA's Come From Not every AA was a top 8 seed to begin with. Below is the percentage of AA's by seed (left column) and broken into the seeding eras. What Is A Top 8 Seed Worth? Seven of the past nine years have been hard on Top 8 seeds. From 2014 to present, only 2017 and 2019 saw them perform above trend.

Amit Elor is World Champion! So strong and smart and technical! 8-2 over Mongolia.

He's busy playing football at Iowa

If Vito can get those ears sawed-off, 57kgs is a very doable cut.

Considering how Sadulaev looked like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, you never know...

Stevan Micic, University of Michigan grad and representative for Serbia - World Champion.

Click here for UWW brackets @Wrestleknownothing @oldschool

Taylor/Yazdani is a 60/40. It's close enough that either is off their game, the other will win. When both are at their best, Taylor wins. Sadulaev/Snyder is more like 85/15. Sadulaev needs to be very underprepared or significantly hampered for Snyder to win.

Sorta hoping he comes back as: Ban Ban Basketball.

A jury of ban’s closest family would convict him based on his personality alone. Can you imagine spending a week in a Vrbo with him?

Was delicious. Did a brown sugar rub after sousing it for 36 hrs. 3 hrs on the Webber. The sous kind of makes it fool proof which is nice with brisket Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He's good friends with Chad Red, so I could see that. Brayton is as classy a person as you will find, so I hope he can regain his form wherever he ends up.