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Why do you have to fight in front of us children? Back to the topic at hand: Just watched a bunch of matches involving ILLINI transfer Ramazan Attasauov. I'm doing an article and need input from Cyclone or Big 12 fans. He seems big, wrestled 133 his whole career, but the ILLINI expect him at 125. How effective will he be at that weight? I saw he was injured and didn't get to go to NCAAs. What was the injury, and has he recovered? Super talented kid. Won U23 Nationals at 57kg in 2020, beating Rayvon Foley and Patrick Glory, but no Worlds because of Covid. How did he do on bottom for the Cyclones? Note: I saw the Daton Fix match, and almost everybody gets ridden like that by Fix. Finally, what's your favorite color?

They're just funny.

I'm usually unwilling to deal with this many large pop-up ads in order to see p o r n.

According to one Vegas expert who goes by the alias Belson Nadds, it looks like PSU will be a tough night for the Hawks. Here's your smart money:

Surely you've heard of JOMBO™ and the JOMBO™ Comic Universe? The premiere comic in all of amateur wrestling? If you haven't, be sure to tune in Sunday morning, as there'll be another episode of The Brando and Brando Show. Back to the topic of this thread: I don't think "bias" is strong enough to describe me. Maybe prejudiced? "Bigoted and intolerant," if used together might suffice. Anyway, this is JOMBO™:

I am a fan. I hate every other college in the country that has a wrestling team. I also hate every other college in the country that doesn't have a wrestling team. I hate people who want to talk numbers, outcomes and projections that have nothing to do with wrestling. I like to talk and write about wrestling and create wrestling videos and cartoons, and I'm biased against people who aren't equally interested. In that respect, I'm like the serial killer at Thanksgiving dinner who is burning up inside to say, "Guess what I did yesterday?"

Excellent! Love the backstory as well. Cheers!

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That's actually a pretty good idea. Let me think about it.

I wanted to stick up for Greco and the ever-exciting Kamal Bey here, ionel, and I also wanted to add a little entertainment value, but I did not have as a sub-motivation any attempt to inject the fear of ILLINI and ILLINOIS high school kids' Greco abilities into the minds of their opponents. That was not part of the plan. In fact, that psychological ship has sailed. Everybody knows by now that if you are wrestling an ILLINI or a kid from ILLINOIS there is the chance that he will throw you, and there is a chance that it will be so spectacular that the newspaper headlines in Champaign the next day will read: "VIOLENT ASSAULT UP 50% IN ILLINOIS LAST NIGHT." But, I don't need to beat that dead horse.

When you look at the kinds of early folk wrestling from around the world, you don't find leglaces anywhere. Leglaces look like two fish flopping on the deck of a trawler. Where did that come from? In other countries, there was a lot of upper body, with some regions also allowing tripping, but leg attacks are not common. Take Sumo or Mongolian Bökh wrestling as examples. You can do a leg attack in Sumo now, but you are likely to be crushed to the ground. Some countries like Turkie developed belt wrestling, and others, like the Swiss had special pants. No leg attacks, grab the belt or special pants to throw your opponent or throw him off balance. Leg attacks are mostly an American thing. I blame Dan Gable, mostly. Abraham Lincoln was old school using throws. Abe was the OG. The most famous image of wrestling in the history of history, at least in the Western Hemisphere, which is the greatest Hemisphere in the history of history, is Hercules holding Antaeus off the ground so his strength couldn't be replenished by touching his mother: Earth. There are more statues and etchings and paintings of this single wrestling hold--a Greco hold--than there are pictures of Kim Kardashian on the internet. Okay. That's probably not true. But in the spirit of this thread, I refuse to do my own research! Screw it! As Genghis Khan used to say, but in an entirely different language, and usually with a goat leg in his mouth: "Are you the Greco guy, or are you afraid of the Greco guy?"

Yes and Yes! Fantastic wrestlers, and they are interesting people. True stars in the making. Add them to a team that already has three or more years left of Kannon Webster, Braeden Scoles, Logan Swaw, Will Baysingar, Peter Marinopoulos and Colin Kelly, and the ILLINI will win some wrestling matches.

I hope the Raneys stick to Greco at the ILLINI RTC while getting a world class education from the University of ILLINOIS and winning NCAA Championships. They'll get lots of Greco practice and instruction in that room.

Ohhhhhh, no you don't! The ILLINI Wrestling Blog and Forum and Beyond Plus steers clear of politics and religion and pickleball.

I liked it! He's very good and Greg Warren is great. We need more wrestling stand up. And I would suggest that it be the 98lb or 125lb guys or the Fatties. The rest of the weights are populated by normals who do and think normal things and associate with other normals who go about their normals business. I am also a stand up comedian, although @Wrestleknownothing and others suggest that I'm not. In fact, I did one set at an open mic night in Myrtle Beach and was eventually kicked off the stage for going blue. To me, that makes me a stand up comedian because it is not the quality or the quantity that counts. Take a bank robber. He robs one bank and his obituary says, "Bank Robber Dies." And a quark. A quarks exists for only 5×10−25 s. Was it really a quark? Of course it was. Unless you put it in the refrigerator and it becomes delicious cheese.

I'm afraid the disease has metastasized. The outlook for the patient is grim. Actually, the astronaut one doesn't look too bad. I just don't want to get a good look at their butterfaces.

Seeings as @ionel and @MPhillips are keen on Iowa butter sculptures, I wanted to throw in a couple more. Note that the Harry "Butter" work was done by a "Professional Butter Sculpture Artist." So, here goes:

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Also workable: Go to some classes but not the early ones. Don't get caught. Get the cheerleader pregnant but deny paternity and send in your best mate with your ID to take the cheek swab at court services.

You have hurt my imagination. On another note, the "Gold Medal Race" is the way NBC decided to promote a kind of horse-race for the Olympics. There was no race for total medals, so they had to figure out something else. I think it demeans Silver and Bronze, which are incredible achievements, and I think it is pretty cynical, and way too Ricky Bobby. With that said, the defending Gold Medalist USA just got crushed by Italy in the Women's volleyball final. On a final note, I am disappointed with the medal haul in wrestling, especially with no Russia here. I think the Americans gave their all, but it came down to some bad draws and some meh draws that turned out to be bad matchups. There are a lot of young lions in our country, though, who will be the stars of the next generation; kids who have already won age-group world medals. We'll be back. With that said, good day, and thanks to D3 and the rest of you. I went through about 200 "Bob Doles" and "LOLs" and "Fires" and other reactions over the games because y'all brought yourself to the party.