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57kg: I do not really know what to make of Anthony Knox. He dominated the open against a field that was not super proven and then dropped a match to Ignacio Villasenor who just Dnp'd at fargo and got 4th at cadet trials. Knox showed really good counter wrestling a lot of chest wraps and he has always been great on top. I worry that if he allows guys in on his legs like he did Ignacio he may not be able to convert points like he did at trials. The biggest threats are going to be Bagirhov of Azerbijan he won the u20 European championships and took second to pavlov at u23's (pavlov is who Luke beat in the finals last year). Zangaladze from georgia took silver at Euros and beat a guy who I was very high on Ozdamirov who went on to get Bronze. Caio Aaron won pan ams over Antonio mills and he will be a tough out he is a USA guy representing Brazil and another guy wrestling in the united states that will be competing is Rin Sakamoto who took 5th at senior Asians and I think will present Knox with some serious issues. Prediction for Knox: DNP (I think he has the upside to win the entire thing I just was not thrilled with his last performance) 61kg: I fully expect Blaze to win this weight and dominate. His biggest test will likely come from Toktamotov from Kyrgestan who won the asian championships or Japans rep who did not compete there. However the guy from japan that did compete took second and I assume this guy beat him out for the spot. Jax beat the Japanese rep at cadets back in 2022. Adlan satiev (adam satievs son) is also in the field but I do not think he has much for Blaze but he is very fun to watch. Prediction for Blaze: Gold 65kg: This weight is very tough and we only have domestic data points for Blaze. Toprak and Dhzandubaev are going to be the main tests for Stanich. Toprak has been competing at juniors since he was cadet eligible and has always been in bronze medal matches, I think he is a legit top 20ish in the world senior level guy. Dhzandubaev owns two wins over him this year one by tech at u20's and one 6-4 at u23's both tournaments he won gold. I think given those results Dhzandubaev is the guy to beat but I think Stanich can certainly do so. I worry a bit that international refs may be quicker to hit stanich with passivity and for that I think I am giving Dhzandubaev the edge but again I think he can win the entire thing Prediction for Stanich: Silver 70kg: I mean I do not think there is a ton to go into here PJ should demolish this field. I think the second and third best u20 guys in the world could very well be Melvin Miller and Landon Robideau. Baitukaev has aged out but even if he was in this field I would still confidently pick PJ. Prediction for PJ: Gold 74kg: This weight is good. Khaniev took 5th at u23's last year as a 17 year old and won u23 euros this year. He did however lose to Manuel wagin at u20 euros who is also in this field and beat Melvin miller 7-0 last year at cadets. After saying all that I am still picking Ladarion but he will definitely be tested. Prediction for Lockett: Gold 79kg: For my money this is the deepest weight at worlds. Fortunately Shamispour is not competing for Iran he is a monster won cadets last year beating Wagin and was firmly in the running to potentially make Irans senior team. Begenjov from Turkmenistan is the returning champ and is an absolute monster he beat Ryder soundly in the finals. However he did lose in the asian semis to Amit from india who went on to beat shamispour in the finals. He was leading 6-1 at the time of getting pinned though so he is still my pick. Saidulov the russian rep is also good he took 5th last year but he lost to LJ Araujo who Henckel just handled so I dont see him as being a huge threat. Prediction for henckel: Bronze 86kg: This weight is kind of a 2 horse race for me. Papinashvilli from Georgia is very good he beat the returning bronze medalist from Turkey in the Euro finals and I think he is really the only guy that can go with Max. That being said I really like Max's pace and offense against the European guys. prediction for Mcenelly: Gold 92kg: Poyonov is a legit probably top 10 guy senior level at this weight. He took silver at senior asians last year and fifth this year only losing to firouzpour 5-0 who is probably the favorite to win worlds and dauletbekov 2-1 who is a former world medalist. Togoev I do not know anything about he is 18 and won Euros but his age makes me optimistic Connor will have a physicality advantage. Prediction for Connor: Silver 97kg: Erfan the Iranian is a monster he won bronze at cadets in 2022 but dominated his way through u20 asians and lost 3-2 to Yoshida in the finals of the ranking series (Yoshida beat Snyder this year). He will be a decided favorite over Radamacher but I expect Radamacher to able to medal against this field like he did last year. Genos brother? Konstanine Petriashvilli is also in this field and he won Euros. I think he has improved a lot but he had a very close match with Elijah Diakomihlais last year who got the spot because Dreshaun was hurt and Dreshaun teched him to make the team so I like Radamacher in that one. Prediction for Radamacher: silver 125kg: I truthfully do not know much outside of Gogolaev obliterated the field at euros and the Russian people seem to think he is going to fix their heavyweight issues. Cole is going to be able to wrestle with everyone there I do worry about his size a bit and giving up ground. I would have loved to see him hit Merill at some point to see how he handles that. Prediction for Cole: Silver

As part of a project to recreate all the tournament scores by building up for the individual match to the team total, it is obvious that there is a key missing component: team point deductions. So, now I am trying to back into them by assuming that any point total differential between my method and the publicly available scores is attributable to team point deductions (with a single caveat). Using that method I think there have been a total of 64 team points deducted in the 9 tournaments between 2016 and 2025. In three cases it looks like a team had 2 team point deductions in a single tournament. The ill-mannered 64 are (sorry about the rough formatting):

It's just baby fat

i am glad i know i can say cunts but not ***I am an idiot and can't use a better adjective***

Nope. And because people like Paul and Dana White are so polarizing, folks want to dog pile on them and $HlT on them. Them simply mentioning the call for help goes a LONG way with how famous they are. Add in that any amount over $0 is more than over eight billion people donated... and that is a lot, too. I challenge everyone trying to call them out to post their transaction amount (a screenshot or receipt) as proof. Otherwise S.T.F.U.

The caveat is Arizona State in 2022. Rescoring the bracket gives them 67 points, but every source I look at says they had 66.5 points. I even went so far as to look at videos of every one of their matches I could find from the tournament to see if the bracket was in error. Nope. No real controversy hear as the half point would not be enough to change their fourth place finish. If anyone knows the story here, let me know.

Chuck Mangione? The world of yacht rock mourns. https://variety.com/2025/music/obituaries-people-news/chuck-mangione-dead-feels-so-good-jazz-horn-player-1236469147/

Still waiting on the big one. Have my best bottle of bourbon waiting.

You did great! Its always fun hearing you on random streams and events. You are everywhere. If anyone missed any of the matches, I have them uploaded here:

Mrs. ScottishSteel was a D1 400m track athlete; track is on fairly regularly and NCAAs, Worlds, Olympics is appointment viewing. I've grown to enjoy it a lot - it's pushing the limits of the human body in it's most simplest forms. Who is the fastest at X distance? Who can throw this object the farthest? etc.

Listening to Monday's FRL, CP tried to argue against whether or not Vito's health was a factor in the result of Jax's win over Vito. I understand that he doesn't want to diminish Jax's win, but it seems like an absolutely egregious stance to pretend like Vito's health wasn't a key factor in how the match played out. I think it's fair to say that we don't know what happens between a full strength Vito against Jax.. but I can't imagine going on the podcast and pretending like Jax's win was against even a close to top strength Vito. I am typically a CP apologist, but I was genuinely disappointed and annoyed by the lack of acknowledgement that Vito was clearly hampered. 6:50-9:00 is the crux of the conversation.

Nice job avoiding the question. It’s called living in a civilized culture/society where men and women have equal rights. Don’t worry you’ll get there in a century or two. I’m guessing she had to marry you as a trade for a donkey or two (I don’t see you being worth more than one). You elect a puppet president while the regime makes the decisions. Does your wife get 100 lashes in the public square, stoned or beheaded for doing the freedom deed with your neighbor?

I didn't see anyone claim they covered it all. Many were assumed to cover large portions... but a large portion could be $50k to some or $5k to others. It's nonsense to try to paint someone in a negative light that offered any sort of monetary help and/or any sort of social media promotion towards help. Better than 8 billion plus still isn't good enough? These cunts (Paul/White) should get our gratitude for this. We can hate on them for the 50 million other things they actually di that is wrong or unethical. For this, I say thank you.

No idea. I mean she’s already convicted so I don’t know what she could say the might incriminate herself. (The whole point of pleading the 5th) But I don’t think we’ll hear a true, full representation of the meeting no matter what.

Looking forward to all the matches. I'll always choose more wrestling...

Could be fun if Dake opens up. Or maybe Aeoden scores early and forces the issue

Well at least we have a Democratic Republic so we can elect new reps when the current ones lie to our faces ... oh wait.

Have you ever seen a congressional hearing that meant anything since Watergate. It's always just a bunch of congressional critter blowhards on both sides spending 90% of their time making a statement then 10% to ask a question and never enough time to answer the question.

2016 Iowa could have shared the fourth place trophy with West Virginia with slightly better behavior. Instead they finished 1 point back in fifth. Granted West Virginia also lost a team point that year, but Iowa could have been there to take advantage of that. 2019 Missouri did not lose out on the podium, but they would have been fifth, a half point ahead of Michigan, instead of sixth, a half point behind. 2025 Ohio State had sole possession of fifth place had they not dropped a point and dropped into a tie with Minnesota. There are a whole bunch more once you get to the lower scores, but not much interesting.

Who else bumps up for one match against someone that good? Did Pendleton? Abas, Mark Schultz, Seth Gross... not many others. Did any of them weigh a weight class less? And who wins while doing it? But that's a bad mark against Askren? Crazy talk.

With weight allowance, 176, but correct.

While Iowa has lost the most points in these nine years (5), they could afford it. But Chattanooga has to be my favorite. After scoring 1.5 points on the mat, they look to have given back 2 points in deductions for a net -0.5 score in 2017.

Your world brother. "I'm just passing by." I posted before your post came through so this is more like, "Great minds..."

To be clear, your examples are.. Ben bumping up a weight class and beating beat a returning national finalist (the score was 5-1 with 30 seconds left.. Ben cut him with looking to score another takedown.. he gave one up at the end and the match finished a deceiving 5-4) and Ben making the Olympic team at a non-ideal weight class 1 year after graduating college.. Both examples show him failing to beat the top guys zero times. Again, who are these "top guys" you speak of?

I've wondered if takedown scoring zones would add more excitement or at least mitigate a little bit of stalling and fleeing. Setup the mat as 3 concentric circles with takedowns in the bullseye zone (center mat) worth 2 points, then 3 points for takedowns in the middle ring, and 4 points at the outermost ring with continuation for OOB. Or maybe the points should be flipped to award more points in the center? Idk. But my thinking is that a wrestler sitting on a lead will want to minimize risk and not hang out at the edge of the mat, and force them to wrestle near the center rather than flee. No idea if this would work, I'm sure someone else here could game this out better than I can, but just some food for thought.

Revenue categories for calculating the 22% are: ticket sales, input revenue from participation in away games, media rights revenues, NCAA distributions and grants; non-media conference distributions; direct revenues from participation in football bowl game, conference distribution of non-media and non-football bowls and football bowl revenues; and athletics department revenues from sponsorships, royalties, licensing agreements, advertisements and sponsorships. @fishbane, I think you are probably right, the gift is meant to help pay for the 22% while not being included in future percentage calculations. The 22% will already have been calculated before this gift. It is then kept at the level for three years with a 4% elevator. After three years it is recalculated. I am assuming these gifts are not considered royalties.

Good news. This sob trash bag was arrested at the Mexican boarder. Elpidio Reyna The monster who was throwing cinder blocks at police vehicles. They found him in sineloa. Wonder what he was doing there. He will be in a cage soon where he belongs. this guy —> https://ktla.com/news/local-news/southern-california-man-arrested-for-assault-on-federal-officers/amp/

Perhaps another interesting way to look at this issue is through the career of Cael Sanderson since he is both the GOAT wrestler and a GOAT coach. Was he closer to winning a team title as a wrestler or a head coach at ISU? The same is true of Dan Gable, but he coached and wrestled at two different places so less variables are controlled. At ISU with Sanderson as a wrestler they placed 4th, 2nd, 6th, 2nd. They also had 6 national champs and 16 AAs. In his three years as a head coach ISU was similarly good. They finished 2nd, 5th, and 3rd with 2 national champs and 15 AAs. That's more individual national titles/year with the Sanderson the wrestler and more AAs/year with Sanderson the coach. Team finishes are very close. The same best finish (2nd) and median (3rd) with a slightly better mean. The teams with Sanderson the wrestler were probably a little better with higher team point totals even accounting for scoring differences. His senior year they had three champs and his freshman year might have been the best. They had 109.5 points and lost by only 6.5 team points. Three ISU wrestlers lost overtime finals matches that year including one to an Iowa wrestler. Iowa won the title so if that OT match had gone the other way ISU wins. Still the closest to winning a title might have been 2007. They finished 2nd to Minnesota 9.5 points back, but the Gophers only scored 98 team points. Looking at Gable ISU finished 2nd, 1st, and 1st with him on the roster. They had 20 AAs and 9 national champs those three years. They year they finished 2nd they had three champs and were 2 points back. In his first three years as the head coach at Iowa the Hawkeyes were similarly good. Gable took over a team that had just won the team title and they went 3rd, 1st, 1st under him. They had 17 AAs and 3 national champs in that time frame. It's unclear If the start of Sanderson and Gables coaching careers exceeded the team accomplishments when they were wrestlers. Its more of a guess how this would go if they had wrestled/coached at a small program.

To contrast, I’d like the rules to change every year

God's way of saying He prefers folkstyle.

You can for the record this. Anyone. Trump included who raped little girls should rot in prison.

Brucey? Ha...yes, I do watch current college wrestling. Actually...been watching wrestling since I've been old enough to see. I apologize for not being able to adequately explain the strategy of protecting a lead and "smart stalling." Stalling has always been and always will be a "standard and part of the game." I do have a little experience wrestling at the college level against exceptional competition and "stalling" within the confines of the rules as written was a great weapon. First of all, my observation is that referee's usually call stalling when it's obvious and not cloaked well. When it is concealed well, they have no choice. They can't call it. Second of all, the lead wrestler has earned that right to stall at the end of a match particularly when a stall call will not affect the outcome of the match and especially if he has no prior stall calls. Handing out a courtesy stall at the end is...other than appeasing folks like you...useless anyway. That you, or others, don't approve...well, I can't help you on that. As mentioned earlier, as a wrestler, if you feel your opponent is stalling, you have a responsibility to expose it and get the call. Actually, as a strategy, I was taught to try to get my opponent called for stalling early in the match so that call is hanging over his head for the rest of the match. Usually, not always, a very good coach teaches and drills those techniques. Sometimes a wrestler can figure it out on his own too, but I was taught stalling and "expose" stalling techniques and used it very well, might I add.

Good to see him smiling, up, and moving.

He's been in Hidlays corner at Ranking Series but not at Final X

Yeah, you're not wrong - but let’s get the facts straight. She was killed by the Islamic Republic, not "just killed". Saying it like that makes it sound like she was stoned by villagers or something, which might be more of a Pakistan or Taliban thing. Iran’s problem is a brutal regime - not some backwards population. Also, why are you telling me this? There’s no one who hates that regime more than I do. So save your little enlightenment speech for someone who actually needs it. It’s kinda cute hearing a WWWHIIIITEEE (not just "white", you know...) dude talk about "civilized societies" while not even knowing that Iran is one of the oldest civilizations in human history. We had universities, libraries, poets, and philosophers when your ancestors were still clubbing each other in forests and eating bark. You wanna talk 2025 "civilization"? Your so-called civilized politicians are openly saying "We didn't kill enough Indians". Such progress. Much liberty. Wow. And remember Rachel Corrie? White American girl. Crushed by an Israeli bulldozer while protesting for basic human rights. She wasn’t Hamas. She wasn’t even Muslim. Where was your "liberty-loving" voice then? We protested for Mahsa. Nearly 600 people killed. Their names, ages, and how they were murdered are all on Wikipedia. What did your "civilized" society do for Rachel? Nothing. Because that bulldozer had the right logo on it. Truth is, people like you are just the American version of regime loyalists we’ve been dealing with our whole lives. The only difference? Their god is Khamenei. Yours is Trump.

Because there are still people in the country that understand law, and law procedure, have to be followed correctly if we want to continue to be the greatest country in the world, and that carries more weight than click bait material on social media. There are also people that understand there is a social media battle that can be fought with the minions. And yet, there are also people that understand minions will slew at the name Obama and run run run with it, while having no understanding of the law and law procedure. Blanche appears to fit all three of those categories.

Heard on The Quad Pod that the finalists for this are Scott Green, Kellen Russell, and Ryan LeBlanc. I'd personally like to see Scott Green get this.

I suppose that might work out. I was more into wrestling and hard rock. Girls were a distraction and a money pit. I wasn't going to spend money on that. But I do understand the allure. I have been married for nigh unto 37 years with 6 kids. So it worked out well for me. Interestingly, I am still into wrestling and hard rock. mspart

I just remember being thankful I never had to do that in my PE classes. For some reason, I missed square dancing and my life is much better for it. Square Dancing is just the US country life equivalent to the group dancing that was the rage in Europe and early America. I really don't like dancing. I'd much rather watch and listen to the band and that should tell you how old I am. mspart

I scoured my email and couldn’t find anything from Rokfin about USDC. I was a creator for a short bit on the platform and got small residual RAE from every couple of months after I pulled my stuff off the platform. Haven’t received anything in months and no idea if I ever will again. No idea if I’m owed any Schrute bucks or a legit stablecoin. So even though it’s not any part of my income, I’d be annoyed if I didn’t get anything either. Not sure what the WR content creators on the site are dealing with but some of the larger ones are still using the platform.

I do not have a huge amount of sympathy for this person who does not read their emails about the business they are running until it is too late. That said it looks like the last trade in RAE was in Feb of this year. Curious. Also curious how the economics work at this point. It used to be they took in dollars and paid out RAE at some made up ratio that would keep some of the dollars for themselves. Then the creators would have to sell RAE to get ETH, and then sell ETH to get USD, paying for the privilege at each turn. Then an avenue was opened up to the creators to sell the RAE for USDC, then sell the USDC for USD, paying a transaction fee only once. But given the lack of RAE trades in either ETH or USDC for the past 5 months, it makes one wonder if Rokfin has just dropped RAE. Liquidity was certainly hard to come by. Does Rokfin now collect USD, buy some USDC (or other) to hand out and keep some USD for themselves? I could see a scenario where they do this for the content creators they want to keep around and just ghost the ones they do not. Seems a crappy way to run a business. Or maybe it is a great way, but only certain personalities can do it.

It wasn't just the two finals wins. Pendleton beat Ben 7 times in college and then a couple years after Askren was out of college he beat him again in freestyle. Pendleton was just better.

This should be the new mascot and logo.

To start, I also think the quarter century team is dumb, especially when the majority of guys wrestled at multiple weight classes during their careers and there is picking and choosing regarding which weights guys are being considered. That being said.. I would 100% pick Askren over Pendleton. 4x Finalist, 2x Undefeated National Champion, 2x Hodge winner, most pins in NCAA wrestling this quarter century, and he absolutely dominated his junior and senior years.

No kidding about 133. Here is who is expected to be returning with wrestlestat starter ranking in parenthesis: Two former champions: 2) Lucas Byrd (1st in 2025, R12 in 2023, 5th in 2022 and 2021) Richard Figueroa (1st in 2024, National Qualifier in 2025) Ten additional returning AAs: 1) Ryan Crookham (3rd in 2024) 3) Drake Ayala (2nd in 2025 and 2024, National Qualifier in 2022) 4) Zeth Romney (3rd in 2025, National Qualifier in 2024) 5) Zan Fugitt (4th in 2025) 9) Jacob Van Dee (7th in 2025, National Qualifier in 2024) 10) Evan Frost (6th in 2024, R12 in 2025) 11) Tyler Knox (8th in 2025) 13) Dylan Ragusin (5th in 2024, R12 in 2022, R16 in 2023, National Qualifier in 2021) 15) Dylan Shawver (7th in 2024, R12 in 2025, R16 in 2022) 32) Chris Cannon (7th in 2022 and 2021, National Qualifier in 2023) Three Former Bloodrounders 12) Jett Strickenberger (R12 in 2025, National Qualifier in 2024) 27) Brett Ungar (R12 in 2023, R16 in 2024) 39) Zach Redding (R12 in 2023, National Qualifier in 2021) Two Freshman Phenom 6) Marcus Blaze (true freshman phenom) 7) Ben Davino (redshirt freshman phenom) That's two champions, twelve all-americans, three bloodrounders, two freshman phenom, and a partridge in a pear tree.

no text needed / just watch and listen

Opening it up for Cael