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10-2 for Elor. Garbage time TD for the defending world champ from Turkey when Elor was up 8-0 (~10 seconds to go).

Excuse me, gents, while I fanboy here...

I was going to post something mean, but then it dawned on me that you might just be jealous. I imagine that is a bad headspace to be in. Mental health awareness in men is important and I am here for you, if you need soemone.

So one of three (3) things will happen with the 57 KG bracket. 1 ) Serbia will have a replacement wrestler come in. I believe they had a recent Russian transfer in, however I do not know if he would meet the vetting process deadline. 2 ) The next guy up gets in, or the next guy up who is already in Paris. Iran or India were next up, I think? I don't know if either would think to send a 57 KG guy 'just in case' so there is that. 3 ) Whatever deadline that needs to pass passed already and the 57 KG bracket will remain as-is with the guy who was drawn in to face Micic essentially getting a bye. I do suppose there is a 3B ) in that they move everyone up and either the new #1 gets a bye or the bye gets drawn-in.

It was not a miracle or a decking. Rivera wrestled a whole match. Tevanyan let up and just let himself get repeatedly get punched in the mouth. Keep in mind Rivera's run was insane and he has victories and competitive matches against a slew of gents with high level senior results. The American gents seem to always steamroll him, though.

Why are you trying to dunk on a child? What does it gain you?

With all due respects, Malik Amine won more matches than Zain Retherford at the same tournament a few years back. Draw matters.

Even if it is pre-dehydration, he isn't going to walk around at 145lbs while waiting to go ~125.7lbs. He would walk around in the 140-143 weight and would pull off ~10lbs his last day. His senior year he was closer to ~138lbs rather than 140-143lbs. Even if you do the match at 138lbs, to be the same approximate amount of weight cut, he is going to be ~130.4lbs to weigh in at 57 KG (~125.7lbs). He is probably the most strict he has ever been on weight management. This is the Olympics and it is quite likely he won't try for it in 2028, so this is his one go of it.

The guy could possibly be the most dense guy in NCAA wrestling the last twenty years. It's like watching a brick try to float.

Just understand that is Arizona time. All times for US - Eastern are three (3) hours different. Meaning 9:15 AM is 12:15 AM, 2:00 AM is 5:00 AM, etc.

Here is a good one for all of wrestling... https://x.com/jesss152/status/1816119729595245029?t=b3oJtXDgJ_wawLh3_UzM1A&s=19

I always was curious what would have happened had the 2xer Junior Sanderson had gone up to face fellow 2xer Senior McCoy at 197lbs a year earlier. It's a shame both went opposite ways for MFS.

I know, I was just giving you a hard time.

Because he didn't have victories. I would count the lone victory he got in their first ever match, though - personally. That is it, though. So 1W - 84L to Dake. Here is a sequence of events for you. Sharifov beat Sanderson Sharifov beat Snyder Taylor beat Sharifov Dake beat Daylor I don't think there is as direct a path to comparing Sanderson and Dake the other way (Sanderson > Dake).

He went from getting dominated by Schultzy for a couple years to beating him at OTT this year, so I do think that he has evolved a bit.

As unfortunate as I think it is, I do think that MGR might struggle quite a bit. MGR is a tertiary subject here in the states - at best. Overseas it is seen as an equal to MFS. That said, Coon won Silver a few years ago based off an absolutely insane draw. With any draw, all of our gents could win a couple. One thing to take in to consideration is that a few years ago Malik Amine advanced further than Zain Retherford at 65 KG. I mean that with all due respect, as there are only a handful of people who even know of this forum's existence that have made the trip to a Worlds, let alone wrestled in it (so eat shit haters). This said, it is the Olympics. There are no unbalanced brackets or randomly favorable draws. They seed the Top 8 people, which are people that have won and earned points by wrestling in extremely difficult tournaments within the last year. There might be more potential for landmines in a Worlds bracket of ~128 people, but there are far less valleys to have to trudge through in a 16 man bracket. Every match will be a slugfest for each of our gents. 77 KG - As dynamic as Bey is, the Eastern Bloc gents and the other elites are just far too disciplined to give a shit - bluntly put. 87 KG - Jacobson is young, man, and he is at the Olympics. He is our darkhorse to bring home a medal, even if he was the 'least' likely Olympian. If you look at our four qualifiers, Jacobson is the one that we go "Who is that?" to. 97 KG - Rau has had an absolute tear of a time since going up... against domestic competition. He 'lucked' out of not having our 26 year old former medalist in Hancock retire three years ago and his presumptive replacement Amos having been injured. I mean no disrespect when I say this, but Rau is not a 97 KG guy and would have to have the best tournament of his life to get to a medal match. I am hoping he does. 130 KG - Coon is a massive man. For 130 KG gents, he is about par for the course on size. So his length and size advantage that he uses on everyone except Schultzy here in the states is gonzo. I believe he has the best chance to medal, since he has a Worlds silver to his resume. I will obviously be rooting for every USA athlete in every sport. I cannot ***ducking** wait, gents!

Doesn't change my statement the slightest, mate.

MGR 77, 87, 97 KG Bey, Jacobson, and Rau all wrestle for medals, albeit bronze medals - all with a 49.5% chance of winning. Bey - Random number generator between 0 and 1000 gives us 657, meaning he wins his Bronze match. We see him pull off at least two high-flying Bey bombs in this tournament. Jacobson - Random number generator between 0 and 1000 gives us 151, meaning he loses his Bronze match. He is in every match he wrestles, though - which gets us rather excited about his future in this sport. Rau - Random number generator between 0 and 1000 gives us 638, meaning he wins his Bronze match. This would be a storybook ending for our MGR squad if not for what I am about to lay down at 130 KG. Not trust me... because I will llay it all out there for you and you will eat my minced words. When it happens, you will all collectively shit your pants. 130 KG Four time Olympic Gold, five time Worlds Gold, and three time Worlds Silver medalist Mijain Lopez gets drawn in to face the #1 seeded Iranian in Round 1 - beating him. Coon wins a back and forth 6-2 match on a last ten second four pointer in Round 1. Coon then decks Lopez on a simple, early throw. He gives a generic interview "This is what we practice for every day. Thank you to my family, thank you to my coaches, and thank you to Baby Jesus. This is what we practice for every day. It's just another match we give 100% to." etc... Coon then wins the semi-finals similar to his first match. Back and fourth... needs another four pointer in the last minute to win 7-4. Coon then wins his finals over whoever has the balls to take the mat with him via 1M17S Pinfellery. I will let your imaginations flow as to how I will celebrate there. Essentially it breaks down to my entering the race for Presidency via accepting both the Democrat and Republican nominations simultaneously, with Trump announcing that I am 'The Best. There has never been anyone better.' and Hitlery calling it a 'No-brainer.'

WFS 50 KG Hildebrandt 'shocks' the world via not losing to Susaki via TECH in the finals, and brings home Silver. 53 KG Parrish has won it all before, albeit not during an Olympic year... BUT... she grinds her way through to the finals. Also brings home a Silver (while beating #1 seed from Ecuador enroute to the finals, btw). 57 KG Maroulis dominates everyone not named Sakurai enroute to a Bronze. 62 KG Miracle scratches and claws and grinds her way to another Silver finish for WFS Team USA, also losing to Japan (Motoki). 68 KG Elor doesn't allow a single non-shotclock point aside for the final 15 seconds of any match all weekend enroute to a Gold performance save for one exception: In one match she gives up the first Takedown, then Techs her opponent. A random occurrence. 76 KG Blades keeps her head 'out' of trouble and picks up steam, eventually pulling off a Techfellery in the finals. Overall: WFS Team USA brings home six medals. Japan does NOT get six medals, but sill wins based on the strength of going four for four in the first four weights. Obviously you gents get to see a Page 8 news bulletin on BBC titled "Where's the rest of the of the Heffer?!" with a photo of some elderly-ish black man streaking up the quad with a full, raw leg shank in one hand, a gallon of Jager in another, and the worlds 3rd largest beer hat on - filled to the rim with a concoction of Black Velvet and Natural Ice. I am talking epic proportion inebriation here, gents. I aim to overtake 'Florida Man' with 'Elderly-ish Black Man' by the time the Olympics are over.

Man... Bouzakis got BIG.

This isn't true. There were people on here calling me batshit for saying that Yazdani - Hidlay wasn't a match.

I am going to need a shit tonne of Natty Daddies and an Olympic Sized swimming pool of Captain Morgan for these Olympics. We are going to bring home so many un-asterisked medals. I won't sober up until Thanksgiving.

57 KG Spencer wins gold on a last second TD on Micic. He was up 9-0, then down 10-9 and Spencer gets that last second takedown when everyone had wrote him off as dead. 65 KG Zain pulls off at least two B&A on his way to Gold over... duhn duhn duhnnnnn... GOMEZ, who tossed him for four twice and still loses via Tech. 74 KG Dake wins via Dake Bomb in the Gold Medal match over Chamizo and doesn't allow a single point the entire tournament. 86 KG Brooks is drawn in to face Yazdani Round 1, similar to DT's first Worlds and BLAMMO: Brooks takes him out. Brooks then loses to Kurugliev. Yazdani doesn't medal. Kurugliev then loses to Amine. Brooks doesn't medal. Amine then beats Dauletbekov for Gold. I watch as the ultimate proverbial 'F-U' is delivered to my screen as Dieringer carries Amine around the mat on his shoulders and I slam three gallons of Captain Morgan and fifteen Natty Daddy's. 97 KG Snyder wins every match ~5-1 on the way to Gold. 125 KG Parris bears Zare via Pinfellery in 1M17S.