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Do we know if Gable is coming back? I think it’s between him and Gomez for the title of most retirements right?

I’m hoping for that next year if Starocci comes back

When everyone else is taking losses, it kinda is. 3 of his 4 losses at NCAA’s are to guys that graduated. Prior to this season, his only losses to guys in the current field were to Barnett and Surtin. In 2022 he had wins over Ayala and Caleb Smith, as well as Latona. Speaking of Surtin, IMO he should be #1 now, and he would fit your same definition of “a guy that’s been around awhile and has never AA’d.” It’s gotta be either him or Noto, but Noto lost to Ramos at the All-Star and Surtin did pin Noto in their only meeting at 2022 NCAA’s.

I don’t really follow the UFC but don’t they have some fights on ESPN+? That would seem like the most likely merger. Plus there is also some collaboration with ESPN+ and ACC/Big 12 so ESPN seems willing to partner. Flo used to have a deal with BTN but seems like BTN was the one that broke that off. Yeah I highly doubt Flo and Rokfin will be joining forces on anything. Sorry @Husker_Du Rokfin seems like the most likely to be the odd man out…it’s the most expensive subscription, including a recent 50% price increase despite less live college/international wrestling content than it had when it first started not to mention the live events it does have often requiring an additional cost (seems like they’ve been having more HS events but that’s probably a different audience). And the presence of all the weird non-wrestling content will likely also prevent collaboration with a sports-focused streaming company. Although if it’s true USAW is coming out with its own streaming service, Flo could be in trouble too as they seem to be getting less and less access to high profile events.

The wrestlers seem to care a little, like when they took that picture a few years back of all the black national champs, which I thought was a cool thing to do. Yes, people should all be treated the same but it’s still okay to be aware of your own/other people’s heritage.

I presume these are his parents https://www.instagram.com/p/B86yf_OnS6b/?img_index=1

Ah, good catch, the Brain is a good nickname

That was UWW+ I believe, and it seems like USAW will be coming out with its own.

I think he mostly just had his math backwards. He said 16, so 40% not 60%. Still a lot compared to most other schools I’d imagine. Some of them are younger but yes a lot are graduating and I don’t recall if there’s much diversity outside of Mason Gibson

I do agree Jimmy was stereotyping also. But one of the 4 comments I referenced was from a Hawkeye fan…

Baylor Fernandes on the other hand…

The % may be lower, but I think it’s clear the number of a holes in the wrestling world is not insignificant. And those 4 comments are not even counting others that were not quite as drastic, such as calling him a thug or saying he should be kicked out of wrestling forever which is laughable.

Obviously didn’t need to retaliate like that, but looks like Vito did give him a knee to the head at minimum. The headbutt may not have been intentional though.

Maybe part of is continuing to encourage more blacks to wrestle?

If you like freestyle wrestling, sounds like pretty soon you will also need USAW+ or whatever they decide to name it

Of the 28 replies, I count 4 clearly racist replies including 1 use of the n word (but at least x/twitter censored it). Not a good look. Hopefully some of these people learn to be decent humans for Christmas but I doubt it.

To play a little devil’s advocate here, there also seemed to be a bit of that basically being ISU’s peak of that season, and many of them weren’t able to wrestle up to the same level for NCAA’s

Another possible downside is it will disincentivize bumping guys for dual victories. Not that that happens a lot anyway. Will also disincentivize getting lesser guys matches in likely blowouts. But overall I think I like the idea.

Out of bounds rule Danger rule Three point takedowns Top man must work for a turn

He just beat Nico Provo in his first match back

So what you’re saying is…Stanich to the transfer portal?

High school maybe. Isn’t there a decent amount of testing in college though?

Starocci trying to switch to the non-heel team?

Guys don’t need to take banned substances to compete for world titles. I have no idea if Taylor did, I’d guess not.

I’d put Spratley and Jordan on list 1 honestly. Is the assumption that Stanich is redshirting?