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Peaked at cadets you mean, he has no positive junior results. He turned 18 in January, so he still has a few years as a junior to go. I think if this other guy flops at 61 at asian juniors they may give him another chance.

After the armenia junior tournament our junior fs team is set for at least the asian champs. Khateri won't be on it, he flopped and got DNP at 61. The other guy came 5th. Soleimanian came second at 86. I think they will send Rahmani now that senior 86 is filled with Ghasempour

Haven't heard anything about him going up. The head coach at the time of the olympic games spoke about the final and basically just said Kiyooka was a bad matchup for him.

I dont think Amouzad can beat Kiyooka but we will see

Yaz has beat him every time, as Truzzcat said. There was no point in any of the matches where I thought Ghasempour could win, even if the scoreline wasn't too wide in some of their later matches. They are close enough in age where that is not a factor to Ghasempour finally getting one over Yaz. I think the only reason to pick Ghasempour would be Yaz being diminished from his injury, which is very possible.

He will wrestle at the Takhti cup at 86. That will be the only trial for him. The head coach in the same interview said he hopes he will win world gold at 86 this year. Basically, outside of a catastrophic weight cut, he will be the 86kg rep this year at worlds. Yaz is also confirmed to no longer wrestle at 86. He will return at 92 or 97.

Ghasempour is confirmed for 86kg

We came second at 45 and 48 this year at cadets. Our gold medalists were shamsipour at 71 and afshar at 80. I think shamsipour and hosseini are more talented than yousefi. Seems that a lot guys who wrestle at the lightest cadet weights hit growth spurts and don't wrestle the lightest senior weights. Khateri will not be a senior at 57.

He beat soleimanian to make the junior team last year and is a year younger than him. Soheili flopped somewhere after nationals if I remember right. Not sure how old him and Norouzian are. We have 2023 cadet world silver Hoseini and 2024 cadet gold Shamsipour at junior 79kg now. Shamsipour beat Hosseini in the junior nationals finals. Hoseini is likely the next Ghasempour and Shamsipour is impressive too. These guys will be added to 86 in the next few years.

Hes 18 and they want to send a young team. They have no one better than him in that age range at that weight. They are probably working on him in case Ghasempour doesn't make it to 86, which is why he seems to go to literally almost tournament. I think he is talented anyway. If it's a question if Ghasempour can make 86 this year is there any chance he makes it in 4 years? I don't blame them for giving this young guy some opportunities.

I feel like Sidakov, Ramonov and Kudukhov should be on here

He won at 86 in 2021 in that legendary junior worlds in russia where iran got 5 golds and won at 92 in 2022. I don't think he will go back down.

He lost to the weakest version of Snyder ever who just got off a plane from another wrestling event. I think that has to be it for Goleij. But I would like to see him wrestle Firouzpour in a battle of underhook, pushout and endless forward pressure specialists before he retires. What a matchup that would be.

Well, if the weight cut is too big then maybe there are a lot of people at 86 who can beat him.

He came third at the emperor's cup in December at 65. The winner and the runner up went to Albania but neither got a medal. He posted after winning junior asians at 61 that it would be his last time at that weight class. This is after Ono beat him for the junior world spot. I think he has lost to both Tanabe and Ogino in his past two tournaments at 65.

Ghasempour techs Akturk and is into the final. He didn't rub Akturk's head this time after the match, thankfully. For what it's worth regarding Ghasempour's weight - Babak, the Iranian wrestling instagram star and UWW commentator, says Ghasempour weighs around 92kg and that he thinks it's unlikely that he could wrestle 86.

Nishiuichi is at 65 now

Amouzad just isn't capable of getting much going against Japan, even against their lesser guys.

Seems he beat Aitmukhsn very easily

He's training with Otoguro's brother I believe, not Otoguro

Azimi beats Babaloooooo 5 - 4 to make the team for asian champs

To my knowledge he has not. He wrestled in the league at 86 and at that Iran vs Russia event but both those had a weight allowance. Both are these are recent. Outside of that I do not recall him entering anything at 86 since 2021. 86 has to be tempting for him going forward as he is basically guaranteed the spot domestically outside of a disastrous weight cut. At 92 he potentially has Yazdani who he has lost to many times and Firouzpour, who while he has beat comfortably in the past, seems like a miserable guy to wrestle against with his strength and endless forward pressure.

He has endless cardio but is a very bad starter is often behind big a minute into the match. He has won cadet and junior gold now so he has at least started his career well. Who knows if he can translate that into seniors. Unknown as of this point. He is entered for next week's Albania ranking tournament at 92kg. This is really 94kg with the weight allowance. He could have wrestled 88 if he wanted. If he is at 92 it is possible we have Yazdani, Firouzpour and Ghasempour all at 92. All 3 of these guys could win the weight at worlds. If I had to guess I would say Ghasempour will go to 86, but nothing is confirmed.

Elahi must sue

Yes. He must contact his lawyers and immediately sue the Iranian wrestling federation.