Piper

I think the only way would be money and stringent rankings that force athletes to compete to earn a chance for the big prizes. Also don't think you can just piggy back on the UWW tournaments or expect them to become a real pro league. You need to have consistent meaningful competition.

Bader said in his video that he's near the top of the list because of age and health. He also said the family had already turned down a potential donor and would be picky.

I think ultimately you will need tournaments. I think wrestling should copy the tennis format with major and lesser tournaments and having the rankings matter in a way that forces guys to compete. Like only having the top 4 qualify for the next major then the others have to earn their place by entering smaller tournaments. The other rule change would be keep the guts and laces the same except only the first turn is worth 2 and each subsequent turn worth 1. I think guys would still be incentivized enough to keep par terre exciting but without so many early techs.

The gun

Let's not bring any form of the clinch back

I like the UWW challenge brick idea, I don't like when challenges are tied to the team. But I think a financial penalty for a failed challenge in the last 30-60 seconds might help the time wasting bricks. Maybe a financial penalty for all failed challenges and a premium at the end of a match.

But he'll have the memory of that 30 seconds forever

1xAA Mike Faust destroyed me when I was 19 at my first/only senior tournament.

I don't know if they were out of bricks but Gable really needed that lunger brick at the end of the second. He knew he didn't score.

I think it was when MM yelled in his ear

Hopefully Sinclair will be better than O'toole at pitching the school to the other Askren kids.

One of the amazing things about Satiev was that he won under 3 very different rule sets. Edit: including with push outs in 2008

The original rule was for the first person to score. But it was too easy to just give up a late takedown. But this was also in the ball grab, 1 point takedown era. Someone getting a push out then giving up a takedown with 15 seconds left would win the period.

I think we should eliminate weight classes. It would remove the two worst things in wrestling; weight cutting and cry baby manlets.

I think he could do well in greco. Working with Warren is a good idea. Hall or Paulson would be good too. The Olympic weight being 60kg is also a big deal.