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Pitt vs tOSU on BIG10 Network today
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to lightweight's topic in College Wrestling
In previewing the Pitt dual versus ILLINOIS, I thought the Panthers had two holes in their lineup. One of those "holes" is now 3-0 against Big Ten wrestlers. They're strong up and down the lineup. Young, too. -
Pitt vs tOSU on BIG10 Network today
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to lightweight's topic in College Wrestling
This. The ILLINI were cruising to a 60-0 win until the ref decided to stop looking for pinfalls. I watched the match live, and I'm an impartial and respected journalist. -
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ILLINOIS vs. PITT on Sunday
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in College Wrestling
I did a full recap of the dual at The ILLINI Wrestling Blog & Forum & Beyond that includes a video of the highlights. What you noticed is something I also found curious. It happens at :25 in the video: My first thought was that the ref saw something he didn't want to see like a child walking in on Mom and Dad rolling on the couch, rolling numbers, rock and roll, they got my Kiss records out. Are there other possible explanations? Maybe he wanted to make sure it wasn't a choke? Or, perhaps he thought by vacating the ABSOLUTE BEST PLACE IN THE GALAXY TO SEE THAT PIN he could find another vantage point that was even better? I'm just asking questions. -
ILLINOIS vs. PITT on Sunday
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in College Wrestling
Thank you for your play-by-play in this thread. -
ILLINOIS vs. PITT on Sunday
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in College Wrestling
You got the win, at least let us have the whine. But yes, a stalling call with one second left to gift a point that allows the home wrestler to get to overtime is as egregious as it gets. Like I said, so egregious it was funny-egregious. Reminds me of the time Jesse Delgado beat Matt McDonough twice in one night at Carver. -
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ILLINOIS vs. PITT on Sunday
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in College Wrestling
That was so bad it was funny. -
ILLINOIS vs. PITT on Sunday
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in College Wrestling
He made the trip. There's also a flu bug or something going around the team. Of course, I don't think they'd bring him if he was sick. Maybe if he had just recovered? In any event, I don't know. -
ILLINOIS vs. PITT on Sunday
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in College Wrestling
Pitt wrestled smart. Credit to them. The ILLINI missing Dylan Connell at 184 and Kannon Webster at 149. Big ups to Caden Ernd wrestling Reece Heller up from 165 to 184. He is a tough kid, and he worked his butt off for the team. Jake Harrier also did a great job filling in for Kannon Webster. Jake started for the ILLINI last year at 149 even though he was a 141-pounder. He is also very tough and almost beat a ranked Pitt kid. The big highlight for ILLINOIS was the Pucino upset. Cole Matthews got PUCINO'D! Edmond Ruth looked really good as well against a very good Luca Augustine, who has obviously worked on his body during the off-season. Joe Roberts got the only other ILLINI win, keeping him undefeated at 157. Nice arena. Nice call by the broadcast crew. Could've turned up the lights a wee. Stream only slowed down once. Good wrestling from Pitt even though I hate those guys. Time to cancel my YouTubeTV free trial. -
ILLINOIS vs. PITT on Sunday
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in College Wrestling
That's Jake Harrier not Kannon Webster. -
ILLINOIS vs. PITT on Sunday
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in College Wrestling
Homer ref. Pucino won in SV. That was sweet. Big win! -
ILLINOIS vs. PITT on Sunday
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in College Wrestling
Big shout out to Santaniello for calling the ref's attention to the Madrigal injury. -
ILLINOIS vs. PITT on Sunday
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in College Wrestling
Luuuke was wrestling like a tough heavyweight for 6:30. Then, he wrestled like a JV 98-pounder the last :30. Oh my. He did avoid that Pitzer switch, which is deadly. Congrats to the Pitt wrestler going from lanky kid to strong Mason Parris looking stud. -
ILLINOIS vs. PITT on Sunday
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in College Wrestling
Free trial on YouTube worked! It is now 6:03, though, and the stream hasn't started. Instead a :10 dramatic "Your Event is about to Begin" message. -
Allred was unlucky to face the man-mountain Cardenas in the evening. He must balloon up to 210+ after a couple of meals and will now have to sleep in a sauna tonight.
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Wow. The San Diego State University came out of nowhere to field a real good wrestling team. For me, the surprise of the tournament. Edmond Ruth beat Navy's Danny Wask in SV recently. Now Wask is in the semifinals having beat the Stanford guy who beat Shane Griffith. Very stingy wrestler. The main benefit of the three-point takedown? Now Cameron Amine wins all of his matches 4-2 and not 3-2. What happened to Seth Nevills? He's gonna have more losses in this tournament than in all of high school. Speculation: Wyatt Hendrickson had his knee scoped. What happened at U23 on top of the NWCA All Star almost requires it. Or, is he just resting it?
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ILLINOIS vs. PITT on Sunday
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in College Wrestling
But are you sure? Under that ILLINI/Pitt image in your post is the dreaded ACCNX. I've seen other warnings on the internet that some ACCNX content is not provided on ESPN+. Some is. This? I want to believe. . -
ILLINOIS vs. PITT on Sunday
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in College Wrestling
Him and Bonaccorsi are gone. They've reloaded, though. Their replacements are ranked #17 and #10 respectively. Look pretty solid up and down the lineup. Cheers! The ILLINI can only beat them if they bring THE STORM. . -
ILLINOIS vs. PITT on Sunday
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in College Wrestling
WARNING: If you go to the ESPN schedule for "all networks," then click on "upcoming" and then "December 3," it indicates that ESPN+ will be showing two duals but not the ILLINI/Pitt dual. That is covered by ACCNX. If you then go back to the top of the page and click "ESPN+" the ILLINI dual doesn't show up. Perhaps a Ruthless card: . -
A couple things: First, the Maryland Millers seem like really big dudes for their weight. Are they having trouble settling into their respective weights early in the season? They seemed to come on late in the season last year. Second, the only person who should be pitching a diet plan on TV or the radio or the internet is Gavin Hoffman. Dude starts out at 197, but the next year he's at 184, a year later 285, then 197 for three years, then back down to 184. He even wrestled a bunch of matches at 285 one year that he started out wrestling a bunch of matches at 184. This was a quick go-over, but I got these for his records at the various weights: 285 -- 17-3 197 -- 40-30 184 -- 37-10 He's obviously much better as a fatty.
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ILLINOIS vs. PITT on Sunday
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in College Wrestling
This is the problem, ionel: But what if I play the YouTube or Fubu card? I guess that I need to make sure that my free trial of any of those includes the stupid ACC Network. Geez. I think that I'll just play the Feast of a Thousand Chickens card: -
This is a bit of a bait and switch. I will get to the dual in a bit, but right now, I need to put to use the combined brainpower of this board to solve a problem. The dual is at Pitt, and it will be streamed by something called ACCNX, which I gather is short for ACC Network Extra. In effect, it is a sub-sub-sub-specialty service of ESPN. That's like a porn channel that not only specializes in Latinas, but chubby Latinas, and not just chubby Latinas, but chubby Latinas with beautiful feet who perform Japanese anime cos-play, and if you know anybody like that, please DM me. The problem is that I don't have cable or a streaming service. I would like to buy a month of ACCNX, but that doesn't appear to be available. My plan is to get a free trial of something like YouTubeTV and use my password for that service to access the match. (You need to have a subscription to some cable or streaming provider that shows the ACC Network). Does that sound like a feasible plan? THE DUAL Our good friends at Wrestlestat.com have this as a 26-6 whomping of the ILLINI. Moreover, it has Dayton Pitzer scoring a major decision over Luke Luffman. Me no gusto. I think it will be much closer, and, in fact, could come down to those very same heavyweights. In their last dual, the ILLINI were predicted to lose by a similar score to UNC. Instead, it was a 20-13 win for the good guys. I have the ILLINI favored at 125, 133, 149, 157, 174 and 285. Some of those are slight favorites. The marquee matchup will be the one at heavyweight, but Kannon Webster versus Finn Solomon at 149, Edmond Ruth matched up with Luca Augustine at 174, and Dylan Connell versus Reece Heller at 184 should be very good. My complete preview is here, but beware, my friends, as I bad-mouth Pitt and there is a Wrestle: The Gathering theme.
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Sweet Lou Kachiroubas
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to Wrestleknownothing's topic in College Wrestling
I've researched ILLINI Olympic wrestlers before and others from the old times, but I never knew about Lou Kachiroubas. What a great story! I will look into it. Cheers and Thanks! -
The September 2023 Sumo Tournament
ILLINIWrestlingBlog replied to ILLINIWrestlingBlog's topic in International Wrestling
I figured that I'd do one post at the end of the November tournament. Because it is wrestling season, I wasn't able to watch all the matches in the upper division. However, I did catch the most important ones each day. Even without the injured Yokozuna, it was a very entertaining basho (tournament). The eventual winner was Kirishima, an Ozeki (2nd highest rank). He is one of my favorites because he looks like Sumo Elvis. He is also very nimble and strong and can use a variety of techniques to win. In fact, he frequently will adopt the style of his opponent, and then beat that guy using his own style against him. Two back with 11-4 records were Kotonowaka and Atamifuji. Kotonowaka is a Sekiwake (3rd highest rank). Atamifuji is a young rikishi (wrestler) in just his third upper division tournament. What makes these two especially interesting is that they are talented, and they are Japanese. Mongolians have held a stranglehold over the top rank (Yokozuna) for years. In fact, Kirishima is a Mongolian, and he's the guy who just won this tournament. If he wins the next one convincingly, he will become another Mongolian Yokozuna. That's why the great showings from Kotonowaka and Atamifuji were exciting. Hakkeyoi!