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In 1966, a high school sophomore named Siddidi Finch, an adopted Iranian-born foster child from Oak Park, Illinois, whose parents died in a plane crash near Nepal, entered the Tbilisi tournament in Georgia and won... defeating 5-time world champ Ali Aliyev. He was denied the championship' however, when it was discovered he did not meet the minimum age requirement of 18 years. He never wrestled in high school folk style matches and only pursued freestyle. The majority of his training during his teen years occurred in Japan, where he was coached by the father of Yojiro Uetake Obata, and accompanied the elder Uetake on many trips to Tibet to learn yogic mastery of mind-body under the great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa. The elder Uetake when asked about the wrestling skills of the teenage Finch, stated: "Siddidi has taught my son, Yojiro, many skills." He did however, after graduating high school, walk on at Portland State university, where he twice defeated Rick Sanders in wrestle offs, but was denied a starting spot in the line up because of "academic performance"... The truth is, Finch rarely attended classes, other than to take exams, and in fact his GPA was a 4.0, but the University staff frowned on his absenses from the classroom. After the debacle at Portland State, Finch decided not to pursue a wrestling career, instead choosing to play the French horn or golf or something. What if.... Imagine how great he would have been. Below is the only known photo of Finch, sparring with Yojo, taken by his father.

Those pesky Ukrainians fighting for their lives and country...

they were just trusting the science... give them a pass...

Based on number ending up in hospital after, I'm going with: b) No

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because hes 10x better. Many modern day wrestlers who have never won a national championship would beat most of Iowa's best ever from the 80's early 90's

Wasn't meant to, "get" anyone. More of a stroll through the back pages of our pasts.

My bad. Dylan Palacio from Cornell did some hilarious videos after he graduated known as homeless wrestler. He holds a sign up and tells people they get $1,000,of they can take him down, but 10 bucks if he wins. He acts like he's addled and incompetent and suckers them in and surprise, the former AA body slams them. The idea and his comic timing are great. Here are a couple, there are more on youtube.

I’ll play! I’m going to go with: (1) he was democratically elected, and (2) none. What do I win?

This situation is solely the responsible of the Russian government. To blame anyone else is nonsense. Any "punishment" for any athlete is 100% caused by Russia. Show me a Russian individual athlete who publicly, openly, and whole heartedly condemns the ongoing one-sided Russian attack on Ukraine. Then, perhaps, an exception could be provided. Until then - they should be NOT allowed to compete. If the Russian athletes must fight their own country in order to compete - that is how it must be. It is their choice to be Russian citizens, they must live with that choice and the responsibility associated with it. It is the responsibility of nobody else.

So...to be clear here, I'M the stalker? I mean...look at your last post? You're once again interjecting yourself into a response to me that, while I understand painful, was not actually about you!

You love him. It shows...

Agreed. I was full time wrestling by '82.' Nine months of the year. Folk and FS/GR. I can't remember wrestling ever, "being ahead." If you got some Olympic wrestling on TV it was a big deal. If you were able to get some wrestling on a PBS channel you were lucky and lived in a wrestling area. Went to quite a few WC's in Toledo. That was as big as I ever knew wrestling to be for a whole bunch of years.

How many skin infections are from mats? How many are from human to human contact?

Probably just running from Amine.

Looking forward to the next time he gets toasted by Marsteller

I was one guy pushing the "sterilizer" and the light wasn't on......how does that think pick up dirt and hair??? Still think the microfiber cloth/tank sprayer between session is best.

Can’t the staph just be all over the wrestlers from the start rather than mats?

No, your supposed to get the light inside the body

This would be the perfect situation for you to pay down your debt. Donate your debt to the Robb family.

I have a pretty robust background in working with infectious diseases and the anti-climactic answer is it’s impossible to know (especially without access to Peyton’s medical charts to get further insight into what the doctors were seeing and doing). Infections can get really unique in every individual and there are so many cases that don’t end up being “textbook” and easy to solve. I initially started typing a whole bunch of medical reasoning and then realized no one will want to read all of that to get a non-answer. I wish Peyton all the best in his recovery and am hopeful he can make a 100% recovery.

Doesn't surprise me that the average person at a prominent university is 6k times less effective than they think they are.

This is the time of the silly season when people start asking whether there is anything about wrestling that shouldn’t be changed. Should the NCAA adopt a push-out rule? Why are opponents always human? If eye pokes were good enough for the Three Stooges, why aren’t they good enough for Penn State? And so on. Singlets are always brought up. Why not two pieces? Why do we have to wear this, this thing when it looks so silly? What will my girlfriend think? Well, wrestling fans, it’s because you don’t know the strange and wonderful and patriotic history of the Singlet. 400 MILLION B.C. The first singlets were worn by bugs, beetle-like insects to be exact, and these beetles used their own feces to coat themselves. (See Fig. 1 below). It was a genius albeit smelly way to protect themselves from attack. They didn’t cover up their naughty bits because of any puritan moral code; no, it was so other bugs wouldn’t eat their naughty bits (and the rest of them). Still other bugs, such as the Junk Bug and the Assassin Bug, covered themselves with the dead bodies of insects they had eaten. (Fig. 2). So, the history of the singlet begins with poo and dead bug parts. It would get better. 100,000 B.C. About this time humans began to wear the skins of animals to protect themselves from the cold and during fights. We know this because even back then there were kid brothers, and it has always been necessary to wrestle kid brothers to the ground and **** with them. Maybe stick a wet finger in his humongous Cro-Magnon ear, or wedge his animal skin up his butt crack. We don’t know this for certain because back then humans were amazingly stupid and couldn’t write or post on Tik Tok, but it seems pretty likely that the first human singlet was made of deer, bison or antelope pelts. Very smelly, but not nearly as smelly as your own feces. Progress! 2,000 B.C. The Greeks set the singlet back a thousand years. Their singlet wasn’t made of fabric or animal skin or anything like that; their singlet was made of oil. Transparent slippery oil. That was it. They still do that, sort of. (Figs. 3 & 4). Imagine having to wrestle an entire match as David Taylor against the sweatiest J’Den Cox ever. It would be years and years until humans realized that some naughty bits might could be covered up. It would take the singlet to move wrestling from the pornographic arts to the martial arts. 642 A.D. It was during this year that Sumo became an important institution in Japan. Today, it is the country’s national sport, even though practitioners wear colored silken diapers and pony tails. (Fig. 5). As you will see in the next paragraph, Asia really **** the bed when it comes to wrestling kit. 1,200 A.D. Genghis Khan got a propaganda boost from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, but he was actually pretty power mad and had a large army—called the Mongol hordes—that attacked other people and took their land and valuables. He also instituted wrestling practices and matches to keep his army combat ready. That was better than practicing with a PlayStation because a PlayStation does not improve a soldier’s cardiovascular health one bit. Especially if there is a bag of potato chips and a Mountain Dew nearby. What the Mongols wore during their practices and competitions isn’t entirely certain. Have you tried talking to a Mongol? They speak an entirely different language! In any event, we know the traditional wrestling uniform because they still use it today: Disco boots, short shorts, an ill-fitting shirt that covers mostly nothing, and an extension cord wrapped around their waists. (Fig. 6). Luckily, neither Genghis Khan nor Kubla nor Wrath Of ever conquered Europe or America, so we don’t have to wear that ****. Believe me, we dodged a bullet there, folks. Look at the picture below--it's Disco Lemonade! 1800s - 1900s During this time, Americans and Europeans were wrestling in what they wore every day, although they would sometimes take off their shirts. Abraham Lincoln is famous for this kind of grappling. He emancipated and proclamated about 300 wrestlers and only lost once. (Fig. 7). That’s a pretty amazing record that even Terrence and Phillip Brands can’t match. Lincoln was also a famous President. The problem, though, was that wrestlers wore what they were wearing that day, which means if you were wrestling a pig farmer, your opponent smelt like a pig. A chicken farmer smelt like chicken poo. At that time, Lincoln worked in a store, so he didn’t have that problem, but there was another problem. The modern formulation for deodorant wasn’t patented and manufactured until 1941. The use of it still hasn’t been fully adopted by the French. That means all those fancy historical figures you’ve heard about, including the wrestlers, smelt to high heaven, even good ol’ Honest Abe. EARLY 20TH CENTURY The Japanese developed their own forms of martial arts that included a kind of silly wrestling called Judo and a striking form called Karate. In both instances, the Japanese simply went with a design based on what they had been wearing at the time, the kimono, while making them a little less resistant to tearing. What they came up with was similar to the terry cloth robe you find in the Hyatt Regency so that guests can parade around in them like they’re Howard Hughes or Kanye. They also added trousers to cover up the knees and the naughty bits, and all of this was made of the same fabric you would find on sailing ships. These were not form-fitting outfits because the Japanese thought you should be able to grab your opponent’s clothing to put him or her off balance. The outfits were called “Judogi” and “Karategi.” (Fig. 8). Thankfully, these and rice, never caught on in America except for a few kids who quit Judo at the strip mall the first time they landed on their head. Admit it, the Japanese managed to find the one starch on the planet that has less taste than a potato. THE UNITED STATES PRE-1960S In the United States, it was customary to go shirtless and wear shorts and tights in most wrestling bouts, including college matches. Shirts and tights and shorts came into vogue in the early 1920s, although shirts weren't mandatory. (Fig. 9). In the mid-1960s, the NCAA discovered it had a problem with the male nipple and ordered everyone to cover up their bodies. Think of the children! At that time, singlets came into vogue, at first in tandem with tights, and then without them because tights are rather silly, don’t you think? THE DOUBLET Some crazy people—and they are quite mental—recently decided to go against the singlet and use what they call the doublet. Either a tight-fitting shorts and shirt combo, or a loose-fitting one. This fad probably died when Maryland brought out a loose-fitting doublet combo that looked like sorority sisters in a pillow fight at the Alpha Chi Omega house. “Boys are like so frustrating, let’s have a pillow fight!” (Fig. 10). THE CURRENT AMERICAN SINGLET Made of Lyrca, a miracle fabric, that is washable and stretchy like a human ear or something that stretches really well, the modern American singlet is form-fitting so opponents are less likely to accidentally grab it, while allowing referees a clear view of what is happening, including pins and illegal holds. Singlets are cool, and they are especially cool when emblazoned with the colors and symbols of such American institutions as America or the University of ILLINOIS (Figs. 11-13). And if you think otherwise, you can take your stinking commie, socialist, capitalist opinion and shove it! CONCLUSION So, my friends, you can see that it could’ve been much worse. We don’t have to wrap ourselves in feces, wear disco boots and extension cords, or wear bathrobes stolen from the Hyatt Regency. Instead, we get to wear the powerful and wonderful and functional singlet, which looks awful cool and colorful when it has a printed “USA” or a big “I” or a cursive “Illinois” on it. May God Bless you and the United States of America (but not the Muslims)!

How about we agree a dumb man acting like a stupid kid?

Lets assume he goes the Gable Stevenson route and signs a NIL deal with a MMA manager. They'll decide his best course of action. Ditching college and medaling on the world stage might be the better career plan. I personally think it would be a bad plan because I don't care how much he believes in himself Carter ain't beating Dake.

Yeah ... but you can't spike it into the mat (unless ... ) like a headgear or doublet top.

Does he have an opportunity to make any more money training for freestyle full time than if he stayed in college? I understand how the threat of leaving could get him a little more NIL money, but he doesn't have a ton of leverage because he may make less money if he leaves. His name will ultimately be worth a lot more in the wrestling world if he has 4 or 5 titles.

You can get on board and be a part of something at least once… or not… it will have little affect either way…

If all you want is to let it go then just do it… your actions are proving you to be dishonest… this is totally up to you… I can do this all day err day… been doing it before you and will continue long after you are gone… ( I did not even bother to read your vomit}

It didn't start a year ago, sport. Crimea was invaded nearly 10 years ago. This is not new. What's new is that the bar has been moved up many notches. The escalation is the problem. The world finds itself in a difficult spot right now. Not insurmountable, but not great. At this point we have exactly (1) country that is the cause of this murderous attack. One. To turn a blind eye and allow Russian individual athletes to participate as if Russia isn't causing great damage to the rest of the world would be wrong. I empathize with Russian athletes. Just as I did with US Athletes when the US boycotted the Olympics previously. But being a citizen of any country has its responsibilities.

When I said the TDs out of bounds, I was referring specifically to the Churella-Hendricks match. Those just aren't close to Takedowns..at all. As a whole...I actually like where we're at right now. It's not flawless by any means. If I could make one change, I'd like to see the...(channeling inner Shane Sparks) resilite with a larger out of bounds area. More room so that a Wrestler can't just put his hand on the floor to be out of bounds. That's an issue. A lot of the TDs that are given up are given up just because guys kinda try to Wrestle the edge and they let up. And it's certainly hard to Wrestle through a position, but it's kinda like catching the ball on the sidelines and dragging your toes. You're not going to have to take the hit and hang on as you go to the ground, but it's just about being aware of where you are. I agree though, you can wrestle out of bounds on one side and have 3 extra feet if you're butting up against another mat and going the other way, you've got the table or the floor. I just don't know how to solve that(other than just larger mats, but that's expensive...though if you started moving in that direction now....). I do like it better than the older rules where there were far-far fewer TDs because the action was blown dead.

Then stop trying to be something you clearly are not…

What bugs me about the takedown is when one wrestler is out of bounds a TD is called more often than if they were in the middle of the mat. In the middle they have continuous motion and the positions are wrestled through. At the edge they have constraints like the table, edge of the mat etc. It's completely subjective.

Insomuch as one "loves" Shingles or some other deeply annoying affliction, sure. If meant sincerely...well, let me steal a page from his book(and about his size!);

That was just bad. And it's one of those reasons I hate the, "don't leave it in the refs hands." I'm fine with not calling the pin. Going back and watching these matches, there are quite a few times where a pin could have been called and it wasn't, be it defensive or whatever. But those TDs on the edge are just awful. Particularly at that point when they weren't as generous with the TDs on the edge as they are now. It has to hurt losing a match like THAT. I mean...we've all likely lost some matches we thought we should have won(or believed we should have won if not for the ref), but this was just so egregious and next level.

Cowboys with three finishes!

As I have gotten older I have realized this. I try to remind myself, we are all dealing with something. I do not always succeed. So I remind myself again.

He isn't. He is bigger than Buckshot... err Canon.

Have a hunch he's pressing to maximize his NIL deal. Doesn't get paid then he's out. It's a new era fellas

When was the last time you bet against a Nittany Lion?

They were both at 79kg. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

He’s either 2-1 or 3-1 against him. I’d bet on Starocci. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Medicine Man did some of his best work on the Hendricks/Churella match. Referee Gary Kessel really screwed the pooch on this one.

Likewise just came here to make sure someone mentioned the Lockhart v Rowlands NC match.

Round Town Rumble is back after a few years off. This year we will host in the new sports facility at Westfall High School. 8 mats will be used again in the new gym. Looking for 16 or 20 teams. Will run pools to brackets to get 5 or 6 duals for your team. All info in the attached PDF. https://drive.google.com/file/d/12sVK3eL6anINiyIokAOyFIHz4dsyccu2/view?usp=share_link Email Tim_Geiger@hotmail.com with questions.

I REALLY hate saying this, but I agree with the delicious pastry

I always loved the look on a guys face, who thought he was tough when you grab him like a wrestler and he feels something he never experienced or expected.

Completely agree! The Ferrari's are a total train wreck. I'm not an Iowa wrestling fan. Not even a fan of the Brands. But I also wouldn't want to see them torpedoed by the baggage that comes with the Ferrari's. That family is all about self-promotion. Taking them is a sign of desperation.

I could beat Gable if that match were set up at the time and place of my choosing.

Jesus Wilson represented Cuba at the 1993 World Championships. Defected to the US and attended Upper Iowa (D3). Nearly made a world team losing in the trials finals to Eric Guerrero 2 matches to 1. https://uiupeacocks.com/honors/upper-iowa-university-athletics-hall-of-fame/jesus-wilson/189 Lázaro Reinoso, John Smith's nemesis, also defected and wrestled D2 at Carson Newman. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1994-05-14-9405130602-story.html