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You guys don't disgust me...much.

Disagree. Starocci got some flukish good luck in being able to go for a 5th title. Do you think the rest of the guys on the list of 4 timers wouldn't have won a 5th title if they came back at the age of 24 to try for one? Starocci shouldn't be rewarded with a mythical "best ever" title just because of winning 5 titles due to fluke luck. In fact I think he's clearly inferior to Cael , Dake, and Yianni, regardless of how many titles he wins.

Stieber clearly belongs at the bottom. As far as I'm concerned he has an asterisk next to 2 of his titles. Here's how I have them. 1. Cael 2. Dake 3. Yianni 4. Brooks 5. Smith 6. Starocci 7. *Stieber* Starocci voted down a couple slots because of his boring performance vs. Ferrari.

I picked MM by major, and felt kinda dumb for doing so because I thought Caliendo might keep it to something like 11-5 or such. Wrong. MM is an unstoppable force.

Starocci reminded me of classic "Hawkeye" wrestling in that match: lock up and push. Ugh.

If I was a 4 time NCAA champion and just beat a RS Fr 3-1, I'd be disgusted with myself.

If Khabib beats Bo in MMA, it won't be because of superior wrestling skills. I'm pretty sure Khabib didn't even come close to being on his country's national wrestling team.

Was you as surprised at how badly MM whipped him? History between them would indicate MM would win easily, but I thought Caliendo had made up some ground. How wrong I was.

So he's a 133 pounder wrestling 149, and he looks skinny AF to me. He needs to get stronger. I see him getting to legs all the time and not having the power to finish the deal. I remember guys on youtube years ago predicting Carter would be a 4 time AA with a couple NCAA titles based on his win over Gross in FS. I tried to tell them FS and folk were different sports, they wouldn't listen. I thought he'd do a lot better than he has myself.

True! But my thought was funnier!

He needs to gain some muscle. He's a good wrestler with good stuff, but he's not strong enough. He needs to hit the weights more than he needs to improve his technique.

If you have 10 wives I'm sure they are probably regarded as about on par with livestock!

I thought it worked the other way around, that farmers traditionally gave cows to men so they'd marry the farmer's daughters? Maybe I'm thinking of a different culture.

Sounds like you are describing Bernie Sanders. He was an AAU champion back in the 50s.

It's been driving me crazy trying to remember where I'd seen Malania's hat before!!!

I'll explain why that cracked me up. Notice that 89% was getting sent to Africa It's as if the US Gov went "send the black people as many condoms as we can afford!!".

Elon's dumb or malicious enough to repost false information. He's done it before many times.

It's a hard read, man. McCarthy thought punctuation was optional, plus he uses words that were pretty obscure even a hundred years ago sometimes! Great book, but honestly I can't recommend it unless you have a serious commitment to it. It's literally hard to read. But Judge Holden's monologues were all legendary.

What's BDE? Bald Dude Energy?

I've noticed nearly everybody is picking Ayala, including myself. I wouldn't actually be surprised if Davis won. Have to figure Cael has been working on that one. Brands are good with little guys though.

Religion as a force multiplier. I could see that as a mental tool. How about the effects of farming and other things on wrestlers? First off, I know several guys who were raised by cockfighters. All those guys' kids who wrestled were all- state wrestlers with several state championships amongst them. My theory is all those guys were responsible for feeding and watering hundreds of chickens a day. Dragging that damn water hose, or worse bucket, and buckets of chickenfeed twice a day. Unloading hundreds of pounds of chickenfeed at a time from the truck. Scraping 2 inches of chicken crap with a snow shovel out of the henhouses and putting that crap, oh so carefully, into the empty paper sacks of the chickenfeed saved from earlier. Catchng mice out of the chicken feed barrels. God damn it makes me tired thinking of it. Imagine how good our wrestlers would be if Cael was a cockfighter.

Super cringy.

Half right! The first sentence was correct, the second wrong. I've always appreciated cool looking singlets even if that is just secondary. But I'm the kind of guy who wears different watches every day and shirts like this: