MadMardigain

Soccer is an outdooor sport while wrestling’s an indoor. I say the wife should have to deal with the added weather conditions that go with her chosen sport.

When USAGreco can’t even find the right way to support itself, it just make it harder for the fans to get into supporting it.

I’m almost positive Kayla Miracle had medaled in all.

I’d agree that pretty much all of them had very little skills in boxing prior to their fight with him. And I’d also say he has improved a lot in his overall boxing ability even though it’s still subpar. But who wouldn’t if you put that much money into decent trainers and actually did take it seriously since it’s becoming a huge pay day. Not to mention he’s pretty smart about picking guys who are a few weights below him and way past their consistent athletic training days. The going story on his payments was that he was at least paying some of his early opponents to let the fight go to the late rounds so it would seems like a better show for the fans. But when they haven’t been in full focused attacking mode for multiple rounds your opponents hasn’t taken much damage, isn’t worn down, and you haven’t been winning many rounds in the judges eyes. Thus he still has an opportunity in the later rounds to find a solid KO punch or he’s still very in it for the judges decisions after peppering his opponent with basic shots since the opening rounds. I can see that type of strategy getting him through several early fights where he wanted to build his name up but was while still very raw himself. But I’d say the payments may have dried up or been through secret third parties as he’s done more professional fights. That would be monitored a lot closer than his earlier exhibitions or small time events. Now he just has to keep picking opponents who have little boxing background and hope a decent coaching strategy can still work against them. So far he’s mouthed off to several solid MMA strikers, but hasn’t fought any of them. Silva was the next safest step up for him since he used to be a known MMA striker but Paul knows he never was a power puncher, he’s way past his athletic days, and his MMA success occurred at several weights below what they fought at. Woodly and Silva is about as much as he can risk without a lot more focused training and even then it’s be smart to steer clear of a long time trained pro boxer.

As a die hard Simpsons fan this is a solid reference. But, to pivot back to wrestling i always felt that if you could get two upper-classman to choreograph a match (wwe style) with several slick moves and tour that around the elementary schools you’d double the youth program sign ups.

Who is Sasso? I’ll take “Wrestlers that tend to look better at the end of the season” for 400, Alex.

“should look like the penthouse” And I stand by my view that the whole Big10 “should” look like a Top 20 contender (penthouse) yearly.

The Big10 basement should still look like a penthouse compared to 90% of the rest of DI.

Looks like another great addition to the Legends of the Mat Forum once the thread has fell from the first few pages of this one.

With the NILs going on you would think the athletes would be asking the university to get as much content out there as possible. The more exposure they have the more people are likely to follow them and/or paid partners taking notice. I get most are not making bank on college wrestling but being able to even get a little extra i will keep a few athlete interested at continuing their athletic/academic career at your university rather than look at the opportunities elsewhere.

He’s just a college tweener that’s may not be able to maintain 197 for some of college. So does he just go all in at HWT and hoping he can put on enough weight yet still maintain his athletic skill to be dynamic HWT. His size is really more suited for the international weight of 97kg.

US squad is better for the rest of this cycle with him at 92 and Snyder at 97, but it’s still mostly an individual sport so can’t fault anyone for moving around.

I’d be good with the stipulation of take it as a Freshman or lose it. But many sports coaches/ADs wouldn’t go for it since the later redshirts do occasionally help them get the most from their lineup.

It could be that is all they are contractually allowed to do.

Word from dad is things went well and he’s resting up.

Maybe Penn St just like the challenge of trying to win it with 9 legit weights and some random guy.

It’s baseball, thus everything that can be a stat will be recorded as such to bring up later.

Does anyone else feel kinda awkward coming here still. Like if your wife themat.com suddenly left you, you know you need to move on and try dating another site, yet it just still feels off to be getting seriously involved Intermat so soon after the split. Ah maybe a couple drinks will help.

Should just ask if we are Gen-X or all the lesser generations.

My vision of this section has always been to have a separate “Remembering” Thread for most of the legendary wrestlers, coaches, teams, and tournament there have been. A easy to filter through living historical archive to pull information from or add future stories/details too. The Shultz thread is one of them that made me want to push to keep these stories somewhere noticeable and a solid first stop to rebuilding an even better version of the Legend of the Mat section.

I came up with that one awhile ago and I believe JB was there to make it happen. We had several theads at the time with great history information in them, but after awhile they would get buried into Page 3 and beyond. My thought was to move the best threads about these legends over to that Legends of the Mat section so they could be easily found. Then maybe have a few threads started there as well well dedicated to specific teams or individuals that could be added too. While it has a good start, that forum never quite evolved that at way as future moderators weren’t as active with moving some of the best threads over to it. But I agree it was a great place to preserve these memories. It could be a great resource of information if used well.

Looks like I found “The Flipside”