Close calls either way but keep one thing in mind. When you are counting for a danger takedown, you don't start counting the instant the other guy goes to his back. You give it 2-3 seconds to be sure he's being held there.
Slightly different side of this. How many beat more than 1 previous champ on the way to winning one himself?
Ed Hamer (Lehigh- '59) beat Alberts of Pitt and Murty Ok State in winning.
If we're talking people who became champs or were at the time
Frick-
Dan Sherman (IA), Milkovich, Breece (OK), Bennett, Churella, Yagla
Close behind Mike Brown-
Bohna UCLA, Mann Ia St, Loban Clemson, Harris Ore St, L Banach Ia,
Not sure that this is an exact precedent but ... https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/42254200/ncaa-makes-canadian-hockey-league-players-eligible-div-i
The statement was actually correct (notwithstanding the more literal picture above) which was unusual for Yogi.
He lived in Montclair and when the road split- you could get to his house either way-
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Albania is now on standard time rather than daylight- they do it a week earlier plus there's a delay with UWW- they're talking about 6am edt (9 minutes from now)
I wouldn't say nearly guaranteed since he hadn't come that close to getting a knee down other than early on and wasn't getting him to move to the edge. However, he didn't give him much time and in my experience they usually give them a lot more time than that.