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Igali was amazing, both world and Olympic champ.

Here's a look at the cover.

Want to give everyone on the forum a heads up on a new novel written by a fellow wrestler and coach. It's called Fighting For Loose Change. Action packed with wrestling and MMA. It just dropped on Audible and Apple Books. Search the Authors name, Adam C France. You can also get it in book form on Amazon.

Funny... But, even though US wrestling is much better than US soccer worldwide, I would put my money on the conditioning and health of college soccer, WSL, MLS refs over wrestling refs. And I'm a lifetime wrestler and coach.

They have yearly physical fitness tests for high level soccer.

A resurrected University of Washington.

I think he loves to wrestle so much, he just continues to compete, but if he wants to continue medaling at the world level he needs to limit his competitions at his age (and also do what many of you have stated, work to change things up a bit offensively). It's probably a bit late for him to pick up a par terre game that is effective at this level.

He just got back from PWL. Lots of traveling. Wrestling high level matches. He puts himself through a grind. I'm sure he was not at his best. He does love to wrestle and he does more of it than most at that level.

I believe the tech fall in folkstyle came about in the 85-86 season, my HS freshman year. I think it was already in freestyle as I remember the 12-point tech fall in middle school (this I'm not positive about, though). I also remember a one-count exposure for 2 pts in 87-88. It only lasted one year (my jr year). My HS coach taught us the cheap tilt just for that reason.

It's always better on my desktop, but I rarely get on the form on my desktop. Phone is hit and miss in terms of add intensity. THB, while I am not a huge poster, I used to come on and read almost daily, but since the adds, my readership has dwindled.

I agree. I would venture to say too, that the best wrestler in MMA can not beat the best wrestler. And Bo is just flexing his MMA muscles for sound bites as has already been stated.

Most people who go into MMA are either not the best at their original sport or too old to be competitive in their original sport. What MMA fans don't get is the best striker in MMA can't beat the best boxer. The best grappler in MMA can beat the best wrestler... so on and so forth.

It hard to beat the two best wrestling movies of all time Vision quest with the best characters: Karla, Kuch, and Shute Win Win with the best wrestling scenes and the best one liner: "Whatever the ***duck** it takes." Did enjoy Foxcatcher, no mater how depressing. Still looking forward to watching Unstoppable, even though the trailers looked a bit cheesy and it sounds like the wrestling is not great (although you could say that about Vision Quest).

I find I have to forgo my phone for my laptop or desktop if I want to spend more than a few minutes on this site.

If I didn't know that was a greco match I would have thought it was free. Glad he is taking the opportunity to stay on the international mat though.