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Other way around. He was shown the door.

Rocco Welsh was noted on the Feb 5th Zagreb rankings tourney early participants at 79kg fyi. I doubt he actually participates based on nothing more than a gut feeling because I don't keep in touch with those loser Buckeyes, I only focus on teams with senior world team members like the Fighting Illini. I-L-L

The state of Iowa recently banned Wegovy and Ozempic and he has to travel out of state to do what is best for him. The only people involved in weight cutting should be a wrestler and his coach, leave the lawmakers out of it. His body his choice!

Taylor is always looking to score and Downey only looks for big moves or a pack of smokes

25 points in the world championship all gas no brakes

I hope everyone is aware that Dr. Mikey Carr will be returning in this dual and he will become the NCAA's first 40 year old athlete

Bulking up to 213 to feast on slow heavyweights confirmed

Herbert, Dustin Schlatter, Yianni, Zane, J'Den, Steveson are six off the top of my tongue to make a team while in college. I'm sure there were others but I'm too lazy to google year by year results. Yianni and Fix made it again for a 2021 asterisk world team which I did not count in my comment.

12-20 per week depending on workout/meet schedule, discipline, and how exquisite the shower water tasted that morning

Back in my day Taylor vs Downey meant asking to wave the techfall threshold so Taylor could run up the score 50-0 and Downey backed out of the match

Do you want my actual input or do you just want to remind everyone again on page 6 how good I had it back in my glory days? But I'll bite. Remember the part where I said I had a six pack? That is relevant because ab muscles aren't visible until ~12% body fat. I'm not comparing my cut to the real hardcore old days with guys like Barry Davis, but I came up in the old school methods and the expectation if I wanted to be part of the team was that I needed to pull my weight (figuratively and literally). It was untenable after two years - I grew another inch after high school and hitting the college weight room did on the scale.

Staying completely politically neutral, there is a high likelihood that travel between Russia and USA re-opens after January 20, 2025. However, the logistics leading up to that date are likely to be too overwhelming (booking a plane ticket, booking a hotel, payment, etc) and therefore it would be very unlikely any US wrestlers compete at the 2025 Yarygin tournament.

Nagao is done for the year unless Davis suffers a season-ending injury. God works in my$teriou$ way$ but the lord giveth and the lord taketh away (a starting spot)

Counterpoint:

If light heavy is where it's at then why did Tony Cassioppi go 97kg for the trials? Here are some key bullet points to factor in: 1) per this thread, a heavyweight between 235-245 is optimal. 2) Gable Steveson was not going to be at OTT. 3) 97kg is ruled by an all-timer. 4) at his NCAA largest, Cassioppi was regularly weighing over 260 so the long-term cut was 47 pounds

I will never be able to prove or disprove what is an opinion of a hypothetical. My opinion is that 6 years of cutting took its toll on a blue chipper, and my opinion is that if he and others had an opportunity to move to a more comfortable weight class requiring a sacrifice not known to other weights other than "you don't start" then we would have many different narratives. But it doesn't matter and I'm wrong, I concede. Who wants elite athletes that are stuck in a tweener weight choosing to participate in another sport anyways.

Dean was the better wrestler, multiple times that season. He was a dawg. Three days of weigh-ins most certainly took a toll on Warner, but Dean beat him (and beat the $hit out of him previously riding him like a rented mule) Allred went on a heater that year. Hopefully he finds success at the weight that suits him best, up or down. Again, I view using Warner as an unfair example to a larger problem at hand and not trying to single him out that if he wasn't cutting and instead at a comfy weight he would have had success rather than defeat. Brooks is looking to move to 97kg btw. But you knew that. Death, taxes, Amine collecting world medals. What a scrub. You got me there. No one should ever move up. Oh... wait... did Rasheed move up because there was a weight class that best suited him after fully maturing? What a great convenience, too bad others don't have the same because they have the misfortune of genetics.

Last I checked we are extra salty because we didn't bring home any gold on the biggest stage(s) this year. So what if we treated our weight classes with the same respect that our athletes are rightfully receiving with NIL and get them aligned to the international experience?

I'll die on the hill that Jacob Warner would have been a 2x champ if a 97kg equivalent existed.

Qualified frosh year, about the same record soph year but didn't qualify so I consider it a regression.

That's a disingenuous question because of course I improved between my redshirt/frosh years to when I was a senior. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who didn't improve over five years. But I was substantially worse against top-tier competition (Mocco, Rowlands, Lowney etc) - my sweet spot to the surprise of no one in this thread was 96kg but that weight didn't exist during folk season.

Ok now let's talk about the kids pulled out of the hallway to wrestle 106 and not just the top level wrestlers if you want to play that game. Of course, you don't want to because you tend to not have civilized discourse and instead want to dunk on everyone at every chance you get. But to open and close that discussion from my side, it is the same as heavyweight at the kids level - studs and duds, not much in between. By the way, what was your weight class your senior year of high school? Does that have any correlation to your feelings? And if you paid attention to any post of mine ever, you would know that I'm on your side about the tweeners like Green. It's a damn shame that only six arbitrary olympics weights exist. But then you throw out Hamiti, wrestling college, in the same paragraph. C'mon.

Redshirt frosh year I was cutting from 234 down to 197 because it was the only way to try to find the starting lineup. I couldn't hold it any longer after two years so we went on a bulking plan and at my largest I was 248. So yes, as I have said on this board and the old place many times prior, I wrestled both weights. To reiterate, I was cutting 37 pounds. In what universe is cutting 37 pounds healthy for an athlete?

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