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7 - 2, though it felt more 1 sided than that suggests.

Seems it will be discussed at worlds in October. Wonder if its a total change or just the olympic weights.

Go on wikipedia and check the 60kg bracket for Greco at the Tokyo olympics, specifcally the route the Chinese wrestler had to bronze. 1 - 1 every single match to a olympic bronze. And this is at the lightest weight. I get that it's an outlier but I don't think this would ever happen in free. At the heavier weight classes most of the matches are unwatchable. I'm impressed greco has survived as long as it has considering its not a major draw and has no women's participation. There is a lot of rumblings it will be replaced with beach, which also sucks.

The greatest American 70kg of all time. He will be missed.

Daulatbekov is Kazakh. He wrestled 2 Russians. One in the semi one for bronze.

Can't blame Snyder for leaving. He went from winning worlds and olympics 3 years consecutively and beating Sadulaev ( I know Sad wasn't the best version of himself in 2017) to losing to Sadulaev in 2018 to then losing to old man Sharifov in 2019 who was never a 97kg guy until that year. He saw the Tokyo games were coming up rapidly and his results were declining and wanted a change. It didn't work at all in terms of improvement but I don't blame him for trying.

Lets let the tournament conclude first

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Cruz cheating lol

Can't say Taylor would have 100% won, but he is as close to a lock as there is. Especially after watching the weight. I have seen better versions of Yaz lose to Taylor. Yes, Taylor would have won this weight.

No need to go that far. Yaz teched Bagaev when they wrestled. Of course, Daulatbekov also pinned Bagaev at worlds last year and ended up losing to Brooks.

In about 5 hours

That heroic challenge may have mentally broke Higuchi

Takedown, fleeing, shot clock

RBY in the process of getting teched

Was thinking it could get awkward in the event of a controversial or heated final. Or just one of those where the silver medalist is crushed and crying on the podium.

Bizarre. YOLO challenged are thrown over much less.

He's locked in a way i've never seen before. Wow. Skipping the opening ceremony which for most athletes is the whole point of going to the olympics. He's going to make mince meat of yazdani

I would say 18 worlds onwards was Yazdani's prime. He looked better in 2018 worlds than he did in 2017 despite getting a worse result. I think he's been performing at a consistent level since. I don't see any reason to say 2021 was the start of Yazdani's prime. What made him better in 2021 than 2019? Anyway he's lost to Taylor 3 times since 2021. His worst losses to Taylor have been since 2021. Taylor hit his prime later than is usual. You can't seriously say 2014 was prime Taylor just going off age. He jumped a weight and it changed his career. I don't see Yaz making a jump like that since 2021. I think it's safe to say both guys got multiple opportunities to wrestle the best version of the other while being the best version of themselves and Taylor clearly came out on top.

I know, but it was a weird tournament. They had a worlds 2 months after the olympics. The result was never replicated by Yaz. I don't put much stock into that win personally even though it was a cool moment.

In that scenario Yaz would have a greater career, but be the inferior wrestler as far as abilities on the actual mat. If he wins in Paris Yaz would be a 2 time olympic champ, 3 time olympic medalist and have senior world medals at weights ranging from 70kg to 86kg. But you can't spend the prime of your career losing to the same guy and be considered better than him IMO. Taylor owned Yaz from 2017 - 2023. Maybe if Taylor was losing to other guys after beating Yazdani it could be explained away as a match up issue but that was not the case. So yeah, i'd say Yaz was greater, but Taylor was the better wrestler. If he doesn't win in Paris I think it could be argued Taylor also had the better career. He dominated a weight class and was clearly the number 1 guy in it for a few years. Something Yaz has never done.

Spencer has no shot at gold. Grow up guys.

It was 2014

Wasn't it the loss to an old Sharifov in the world semis that made him switch? Regardless, as good as PSU is, it didn't work. I don't think he's any better than he was before.

https://uww.org/article/sadulaev-ruled-ineligible-compete-uww-panel