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According to the head coach he is returning at 97

I think that Russian vs Iran dual was at +2kg allowance. Actually I saw a a little video with Ghasempour today that the federation did with him. In it he says he is very sensitive to cutting weight and his plan was to stay at 92 until 2028 and move down for the olympics. From what he said I got the vibe that the coaches kind of forced/ talked him in to going down earlier than he would have liked. So we will see. I think if it doesn't go great he will go right back up to 92. He beat Aoyagi in the semi final of the Meiji cup ( the second and final stage of their trial) but then lost a match he should have won in the final. Aoyagi had won the Emperor's cup ( which Yamahshita did not participate in) so no matter what happened in the Meiji cup he would get to wrestle the winner for the spot. Yamashita went up to 74kg and he won the all Japan student championship a week or so ago. Not sure if that is their u23 trials or what.

57 - lee 61 - suda as he has momentum 65 - no one repeats at 65, but Kiyooka wrestled Amouzad and Amouzad couldn't really do anything to him. I will take Kiyooka 70 - No clue , maybe Aoyagi 74 - Takahashi - pure hunch 79 - Usmanov - Nokhodi is bound to win this weight at some point as he has been right there these past few years and probably should have won in 2024, but he hasn't wrestled a tournament or even an official match since last years worlds. 86 - Ghasempour 92 - Firouzpour - reasonably confident 97 - Tazudinov - I think he will win and win in style 125 - Zare - the only guy who could actually wrestle him for 6 minutes was Akgul and he is gone. Someone would need to score big points on him very early and put him in a huge points hole( or tech him) to beat him and while it seems he has a match like that once in a while, I don't see it happening in this field.

Ok, skimmed through the entrants list and didn't spot anyone. So it could impact Firouzpour.

Israel isn't sending a team

I don't think even the most hardcore international fans have any idea who that dude is.

An interview with G.R Mohammadi, head coach of the junior team. 57 - Says Hadadi made a mistake during a sequence ( not keeping his head up) and that they were shouting at him to do so but he didn't listen 61 - Says he did well for a 17 year old. He's 18 but ok 65 - Didn't say anything particular 70 - Says he wasn't listening to being told he is behind 74 - Made a mistake and they expected a lot more of him 79 - Says he was left alone in the hotel and gorged himself on the buffet which led to him gassing in the final. He told the coach post gold medal match that he was about to vomit. Upon further interrogation he revealed he had gone overboard in the hotel buffet 86 - Says he broke his hand 2 weeks before the tournament 92 - Says they expected more of him 97 - Says they expected a lot more of him 125 - Didn't say anything All in all he said the above and said a lot of their camps were disrupted due to the war. Also he claims there was a change of schedule for the tournament around 2 weeks prior which further disturbed their training camp. They change coaches quite often for age group teams in Iran. I wonder if he will still be the head coach next year. Depends if they take his mitigating reasons into account.

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I think Yoshida beating Snyder was a fluke, but maybe i'm wrong. As for 74 , Takatani has to be around 30 years old now. He was in the bracket with Pico and Yazdani at junior worlds. I think Takahashi will be the guy for them at 74 going forward and I think he can go very far at 74. He seemed to struggle to wrestle the full 6 minutes at the ranking tournament. If he can fix that he could be the surprise of 2025 worlds.

Their A team is the favourite against the USA from 57 - 74. Of course they will never have the depth of the countries that actually somewhat care about wrestling. P4P they may have the best program, though.

Didn't even know this place had a non wrestling forum, lol. Looks like a war zone in there. And those posts you mentioned are ridiculous and racist. I mean, only 1 of them is even true!

Well you will win a 100 dollars if you are right. If he is still at 61 in 2027 I will send it to you.

Expect to win gold based off what? Cause he won cadet worlds once at 45kg? Also I assume you will be banned for your signature.

If that's the reason then it's not working. Those countries don't have anyone decent (outside of maybe Khamzat Chimaev, lol) and will never care about wrestling enough to produce a solid team. They pretty much suck at GR too. My surprise is more that the IOC hasn't removed GR.

I will send you 100 dollars if he still wrestling 61kg in 2 or 3 years. A bet only on my side.

I duno why this Babak guy ( The Iranian commentator) keeps saying Khateri just turned 17. He turned 18 in January!

Its just boring. They tried a lot of rule sets for Greco. Actually I am in a way impressed by FILA/UWW, they managed to keep GR in the Olympics somehow. It is the only olympic sport women can't participate in. How did they pull it off? Im sure it's not because of the immense audience it draws. We were never going to have 24 or 30 weight classes or whatever ( 8/8/8 10/10/10 or even 7/7/7) no matter now competent or incompetent UWW may or may not be. The days of 10 weights per style or even 8 were when womens was not included. We already have the most weight classes of any sport. Im no fan super fan of UWW and they can barely even film a wrestling match properly in some of their recent tournaments ( some of the camera angles at 2023 worlds and this years junior asians were shocking) but out of all the sports in the Olympics that have weight classes, wrestling has the most with 18. If we could go 9 and 9 with FS and WFS I would take it. Unfortunately my real assumption is eventually it will all be replaced with beach wrestling, which I am not a fan of.

The american kid he lost to was a leg attack god

G.R Mohammadi's job (and life) are on the line. He needs Khateri to beat American superstar Marcus Blaze.

They should sacrifice GR more FS weights if that is possible.

Those 50 uncles share some blame also. They teach these guys that style of wrestling when they are kids.

Ok, could have sworn it was 4 yesterday

Why only 3 mats today

This is pathetic. Bad look for UWW officials

Japan coaches should have tried to challenge that last sequence