Joust

"nah... just another anonymous internet nobody talking shit about an olympic gold medal... or any international medal..." "know that those world silver medals also came with a suitcase..." You really are a thick one eh triple dots. Taking full advantage of the public figure buffoonery clause.

Sure princess.

So I'm anonymous and you are not and that means.................. what???? I'm really curious why you decided to attach meaning to that in this context. And if I wasn't anonymous then checkmate! Anonymity is great, you can talk less about yourself.

You are not a somebody and your dumb appeal to some nonsensical hypocritical standards aside, I will gladly denigrate your delusions. Nothing to suggest a 50+ year old who can't make weight is a serious contender to medal, let alone beat the guy who owned him when he was.

Plenty of them genius. I don't see you talking about them at 50.

No one new has arisen. Riza is still the best person not named Lopez on paper. And the second best guy going by form is also Cuban, so Lopez wouldn't even need to face him. The only long shot of a new person is that there is some 20 year old Russian (realistically only country that could produce one now) prodigy that we don't know about. But I haven't seen anything indicating that. So it's the same people from Tokyo, and what looks like a declining Riza. Nothing interesting about the field. Which makes it on Lopez. I don't think any of them can score on him, other than a fluke push out or a terrible mistake. Can still Lopez still gut everyone? If he can, he should win comfortably. I think his biggest concern is an injury, even mid match. It could happen.

The mythical Rulon makes a hypothetical appearance. Rulon already faced Lopez when he was in his was in shape, he went 0-3 against him. And that was a young Lopez who was still taking losses to the field. What did Rulon do that would make people think he could do this, at 50? He stalemated a severely diminished wrestler who had looked like a shadow of himself for the past two tournaments? So did two other people in those other tournaments. Can they win at 50 too? Rulon didn't score with a wrestling move against Karelin. The arcane grip rule gave him the win. You can also hear the commentator mentioning how all Rulon had to do was stall in that position and he would have been given a point anyway. Definitely a balanced rule, make one guy take all the risk while forcing him to adhere to thumb war concepts.

I think he is well below Rostorotsky, Tomov, among just heavyweights. Charitably he is about as good as Nikola Dinev, but in an era where Russia/Soviets are painfully mediocre at the weight with no signs of life and every other country that used to produce good heavyweights (including the US) went dry. So he has an inflated medal count. What are his best wins in the past 10 years in big competitions? A no score ref decision against Lopez, 19 year old Semenov, Oscar? His euro campaign has been unbelievably weak, his "main rival" on that continent couldn't bother to show up. This "2-1" version of post Tokyo Riza isn't beating a 50 year old Lopez, he injures himself mid match.