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It would be hard not to have come down with HEW, taylor didn't start winning right out of college or before like burroughs or smith, it took him 5 years to make a team. If there aren't financial incentives, and if this wasn't a shortened cycle (2021-2024) its no surprise if he retires. Also makes the 4 year age difference between him and yaz big. That said....motivation is a talent too.

the real confound for me with brooks is that I just didn't at all anticipate how well he'd handle taylor, makes me think taylor was hurt or more messed up than her let on after getting dropped on his head in the first match. I disagree that Yazdani is going to have worry about being countered more than respecting the attacks brooks is gonna initiate himself. His stance makes him really really hard to get to, and he can attack from it because he is really good at backstepping into everything, but its hard to make that work if you aren't pulling at the same time, which he probably wouldn't be Yazdani was initiating. hope that makes sense.

yeah thats a much better comparison. I think askren was a better folk wrestler than pendleton despite probably having a similar record against him to taylor/yazdani.

well, they're not smart like us then.

Compared to Hidlay Brooks is an insanely dynamic wrestler. I don't think anyone was surprised hidlay got teched, he's essentially just a worse version of yazdani. I'm gonna be fascinated to see if Brook gets pushed around. His stance with his legs out like tent poles and his hips like a kilometer back, might be able to slow things down enough for him to try and make yazdani tired. If he can't hold his ground he's gonna have to shoot to stay in the match, logan stieber style, in which case he's gonna have to avoid getting stuck underneath to avoid the time suck. If he can't hold his ground, and has to compensate by spending 90 seconds in a front headlock, Yazdani ain't gonna get tired.

thats a little generous to Taylor I tihnk, I'd just stuck with the 5-1 and 2 pins. I don't disagree with your perspective, but at a certain point the creds have to take over the head to head. If Yazdani wins out through 2028 (we're down the rabbit hole), and is a 9 time champ with 3 olmpics, taylor becomes a trivia question. That said I agree its not that case with one more title. Remember the Nebaska guy who used to kick Rosholts butt? pinned him even. And never found him at nationals? That comparison doesn't quite hold because taylor and yazdani aren't getting beat by randos...

That worlds sucked, all I remember is metcalf getting doubled and varner getting pushed around like he didn't know what an underhook was.

I'm doing it on purpose because I think its farcical that she is the vice president.

After his last world title, Taylor said something that I didn't like him for saying which was nonetheless interesting, essentially that if it wasn't for him, Yazdani would be up there with the greatest freestyle wrestlers ever (you could argue that without Taylor he's an 8 timer headed to paris), therefore he is the greatest wrestler ever. Well that narrative doesn't really hold up with his failure to qualify. If Yazdani leaves the olympics as a 5 time champ and 10 time medalist, does that put him above Taylor whose got 4 golds and one silver? It largely comes down to how much weight you put on head to head wins vs credentials...also something that surprised me is that Taylor is 4 years older than chariti.

Can I answer with a Pyles take instead? "NO ONE in that bracket is hoping they draw Spenser!"

at the risk of tooting my own horn, despite increasing incentives the change, the leftists are still paralyzed by the factors i mentioned.

when did tsardouch beat him?

I agree, but sidakov might come off worse if we spoke the same language and had been listening to him for 15 years.

Worth mentioning that "like" is a weird word in this context. Does Cael like tom brands, almost certainly not. Would he like Brands if they were neighbors, or in a foxhole, or in almost any other circumstance than the one they are in? yeah, they'd be great.

We get any confirmation or denial of the no-booze policy?

on the actual subject, word he she's vetting the right people, Josh Shapiro types. But to me it doesn't look like they are gonna accept Kamala, if they were willing to it would have happened a long time ago. Convention is gonna be wild.

You didn't find is sister to be insufferably poorly written, like she signed a deal with the devil that everything she said was really funny but he withdrew it without telling her.

what is this in reference to

i re-watched a few months ago, don't get discouraged in season 3 when it gets sort of lame.

The Shield is on hulu and disney plus, its old but i find most haven't seen it. Shogun was excellent, you have to handle subtitles, but the subtitles are actually part of the plot because the main guy, who is great, has an interpreter.

i had that thought too, but he strikes me as someone whose plan was to make it to the olympics.

Its a complete outrage if he resigns the campaign and not the presidency.

screw that! I've got it! Megan Markle! Her and camel are both black women or whatever, they've both defied massive massive impediments based on their race and sex that would have crushed any other people, they have a great command of language and WIDE breadths of general knowledge, they lie really convincingly...this is the perfect ticket!

it was such an obvious place to end the series.