AnklePicker

Iowa has very poor defense once you get to their legs. Caliendo seemed clueless on defense. They need to bring in someone from outside of their program. Telford and Morningstar weren’t exactly technical wizards. They should go hard after someone like Yianni as a coach. Not head but high up.

Woods has regressed. Maybe he’s hurt, maybe he’s been sick twice now. But he barely even took a shot last night.

Gilman is a world champ.

Then why is it I see so many at the highest level work? I think they don’t work as well because coaches don’t teach them. When a throw presents itself there isn’t an easier takedown.

I'm wondering if coaches will start teaching more throws since you can get 7 points off of one good one. The odds of going feet to back off of a TD is much less likely. Most coaches seem to think throws are risky but when they present themselves they are actually not very risky and they have tremendous reward especially with the new rule set. Nothing easier than a perfectly timed and executed lat drop.

Are you taking Tom and Terry Brands to lead your program or Kevin Dresser and Brent Metcalf? Who you got?

You're saying that having less weights doesn't make the remaining weights more deep? I just heard David Taylor talking about just the opposite. How loaded the weights are because of having less weights.

Look who JB had to go through just to make the team. Taylor, Dake, multiple time world champs. He wrestled after the break up of the Soviet Union which makes it WAY more difficult plus he’s wrestling in an era with far fewer weight classes. Do you not factor in any of those things? Smith beat Canadas Gary Bohay in the finals. A guy who never medaled before or after those world championships. Smith is my hero, he was like a god to me growing up while he was winning Olympic titles, but your competition matters. The depth he faced isn’t nearly what JB has faced. 1=Burroughs.

I think the better question is has there ever been a more d bag post than this?

Because he’s better than Haines. You’ll see.

Thanks Gus!

Now someone compile the list of guys who have won both cadet AND junior world titles for the US. I can think of Gable who won 2 cadet titles and 1 junior title. Are there any others in USA wrestling history? I'd say that puts Shapiro in some pretty rarified air. If you don't think he has a chance to win a title this year, you haven't actually watched him wrestle.

https://www.essentiallysports.com/us-sports-news-olympics-news-wrestling-news-russian-wrestlers-doping-scandal-unravels-after-a-marathon-of-nine-years-court-of-arbitration-for-sport-drops-the-hammer/ Now do Geduev.

Didn’t realize he was at 57kg just last year. I guess he did make it. My apologies. Amazing run he had.

I forgot that Lalovic is Serbian.

You missed the point smh.

This kid is unique. The old eye test shows me that. Also doesn’t hurt that he was a cadet and junior world champ at a super tough weight. How many guys in US history have won a cadet and junior world title? Gable?

Because you can’t cheat the draw?

So nhs67, you know for a fact they were all in a room together at weigh ins? Again my question is how do weigh ins work at sr worlds? I’ve watched a crap ton of wrestling and I’ve never seen size difference like that. If that makes me a tinfoil hat wearing turd biscuit like your other buddy then so be it. It was particularly obvious with Uguev. If the other competitors watched everyone weigh in it would def alleviate my concerns. I’m just not sure how in the hell he made it.

How do weigh ins work at the senior world championships? Is it even possible that Micic actually made weight? I got nothing but respect for the dude's accomplishment, but I can't figure out how you can be a head taller than a guy AND have bigger arms, legs and hips. Doesn't add up.

I think the weight cut has a big impact on Dake. Not quite a James Green at 65 level impact, but it def takes something out of him. Sidakov seems to be perfectly suited for 74kg.

In 1904 the weight was 115. Wrestling was exponentially less deep at that time, even more so at that weight. Some context on the subject. In the 1904 Olympic games, won by Mehnert, only 62 of the 651 athletes who competed came from outside North America due to the Russo-Japanese war. Contrast that with what Taylor and JB and all of our current competitors have to deal with. In 1908 there were 22 countries represented in the Olympics, in 2020 there were 206. There is no comparison.

Of course he's a Jersey guy. But he was really small, like 115. Not the same imo as an 86kg. WAY less adult guys walking around weighing 115. Even back then.

But he comes off his knees and attacks with his feet still out.

He doesn’t push into him he darts back in for a low shot. I think you may be on to something.