Truzzcat

if he is truly walking around at 215-220 he should work on putting good size and fight at light heavy. The skill discrepancy between those two divisions is immense and he would have much more favorable matchups on paper.

What a good guy, V-tech always shows up on kids short lists for schools and I would imagine it's from the impact those coaches make on the kids.

Justin outstruck fiziev in two fights and Fiziev is one of the best pure strikers in the MMA. His striking has gotten very good under Trevor Wittman. Edit: he also ko'd and outstruck poirier the last time they fought.

Keuter Mullen Trumble Gable Mason Wyatt Hopke greg (if Aaron goes 97 maybe snyder?) Its a shame other than Gable and maybe Mason and Wyatt that none of these guys seem to really feel like established senior level threats.

potential fields 65kg: Forrest(Cadet silver),Blaze(cadet gold u20 bronze),Bassett(cadet gold u20 bronze),Valencia,Mendez(u20 silver),Vega,Hardy(u23 bronze),Stanich,Bartlett (u20 bronze) 74kg: Carr(cadet bronze u20 gold),MM(u20 gold and silver),Duke(u20 bronze),Lockett (cadet gold and junior silver),Shapiro(cadet and junior gold),Kasak feels like we could be approaching Russia levels of depth at those two weights where we have 4-5 guys that could medal at each weight.

Wrestling is all conditioning? I raise you Ismail musukaev.

if he can make slight improvements year over year for the next few years he will probably stumble into the top 5 simply because 185 is a very old division that is not really budding with new talent.

Can the seeding committee do us a favor and just match up Blaze and Bassett round 1.

Aaron actually recently signed with the UFC other than dislocating his shoulder against Jeremey Kennedy he has been on a tear, and I think he has a good shot of winning a belt. He is truly a complete fighter just may have chin issues and sort of got throw to the wolves when he was too green. My gauge on Bo which could probably be completely off base is that he is not pushing himself in training. He spends most of his time in happy valley likely training with the same guys that probably are not as good as him and then does the last few weeks of camp in florida which at that point I doubt they are giving him guys that can beat him so that his confidence is not shot. I know he trains with Johnny eblen which is great but thats a style that is probably fairly comfortable for him and who's to say how hard Eblen goes. As for RDR he held two belts in one for a reason he is very good and had a great gameplan he was constantly moving forward and throwing knees up the middle which probably made Bo apprehensive about lowering his level. The two most concerning things were seeing Bo get stuck underneath and have terrible body language to getting hit. You can be as good as you want but if you can't take getting hit you are not going to make it very far.

I do not inherently disagree I do think Ladarion is in the same tier as PJ and Marcus in folk I thought he actually looked better during the folk season than he did at the open. Beating burton while bumping up a weight 9-3 I believe and beating Melvin 11-1 in the ironman finals. Robideau has a trajectory where I think he could still be making big improvements. He has always been good but not a top p4p guy until the last year. I think your argument for national titles is super valid I just don't know as good as Henkel and Cunningham are that they find themselves in the lineup for more than a year without some serious eligibility manipulation with grey shirts and medicals.

I guess they are starting a real pro wrestling league Free,folk,greco.

Had a client come in to work today who was more excited about Bo losing than any of the PSU guys winning. I imagine that can go both ways though.

I completely agree with this. I felt like kyle was fine strength wise, but his gas tank was not there like it normally is and I chalk that up to him not having enough time to train at this heavy of a weight. If he can wrestle his normal pace for 6 minutes, I think Zahid better be on the versa climber for the next 2 months.

I don't see either guy making the team, but I would really like to see PJ against Cardenas. I think Cardenas was in sad boy hours on the backside, but he looked incredible against parker who came back to take third and early against Yianni. I think James will find angles on PJ and will hang in the hand fight I give him a slight edge there. I really noticed how stuck Pj's feet get when he is not in control ties and I think James exploits that watching the Pantaleo match back last year it was similar to the miller match in that instance.

bring the otoguru brothers in full time!

hoping at least one of Dake or chance drops to 79kg. I think Dake can beat Zahid I just personally don't have a lot of confidence that Evan wick will bring home a medal. Welsh may be able to get down as well for a one-time weigh in. I am not going to lie If brooks does not go 92 I am not overly confident with our team this year. The future is bright but I think there is a chance we do not medal at 65,70,74,79,92,125 depending on who shows up.

I would guess a combination of weights being top heavy, guys quitting mentally on the backside or guys getting fatigued and quitting in the match. Freestyle allows you to exploit momentary lapses in effort far more than folk does i.e. getting a lace or trap arm off a takedown.

The age curve in all weight cutting/combat sports seems to be kinder to the heavier athletes. GGG was an absolutely anomaly for that very reason. I am interested to see if we start to see a decline in Canelos performances bud seemed like maybe age was catching him against Madrimov but that could have just been how good Madrimov is. Lomachenko is a guy that I think wasted a lot of his prime because he did not turn pro until he was almost 30 and he is much lighter. I believe prior to volk beating lopez fighters 35 and older at 170 and under were something like 2-31 in title fights.

He looked should I say not in shape at 65kg. I agree though I don't know that he has been that light since he was a freshman in high school.

Just realized Jax has teched 3 ncaa champs and 2 world team members (NATO,Nashon,Gross).

UWW changes age at the first of every year its the age you turn that year.

I posted in another thread, but you had 3 Mccort kids that committed this year so presumably are training some at their new school. Herring and Forrest both had the best tournaments of their lives whereas Bo may have not met expectations. Now they are still in high school and may only be training at these places at most a week at a time I just thought it was worth noting that he seems to have not made the progression in that step his teammates have so far not to say he will not. I also think he can go on and make a good run at trials I certainly don't think the Stanich loss will define him, and he can make adjustments to win that match for sure he just has not made any technical changes that I've noticed with my untrained eye.

I completely agree when it comes to single legs. Zepeda doubled him from space twice and took him down without much resistance both times. He rubber knees like Crookham though from a single.

Knox is missing a signature win to me unless you go back to 2021 who's 1 over Lilldeahl or and that was before Luke cemented himself as the guy he is now. That's to no real fault of his own he just has not really had the opportunity. just recalled he has the Bassett win too but Bo was in 8th grade.

Junior range allows kids to be from 17-20. Melvin was the only HS sophomore competing to my knowledge.