oldschool

it's too bad the iranian guys aren't in this forum like the old one. this thread would be on fire

Here's the original version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230825212522/https://uww.org/article/freestyle-entries-released-2023-world-championships

Agreed. I think the main hesitation from some people is that this'll be the first time we see him in a full strength 74kg since Tokyo, including Kadi who embarrassed Dake in their only head-to-head and Sidakov who handled Kadi. Really hope to see Dake face both of these guys, and it's def subjective but my money'd be on him to come out on top. He is getting older, however, which he spoke about quite a bit in his recent UWW interview.

Yep; I'm going to be there from the 15th-22nd. First world championships in person. Stoked!!

Here are my MFS predictions for USA, Russia (AIN), and Iran (google sheet). Would love to hear your guy's thoughts, especially if I'm missing anything glaring. Feel free to copy the sheet and play w/ the "Prediction" columns to see the predicted team results update on-the-fly. btw this is the first time I'm going to be attending a senior world championships in person Stoked to be able to travel to Serbia & root for our team!! A few notes: My predictions assume that Russia is sending their MFS team, even though they didn't appear on the initial list of UWW entries. This is the same format as I did last year for the 2022 MFS Worlds USA vs Iran team race on the old forum. This'll change drastically once we get draws, especially w/ all the AIN wrestlers being randomly drawn in. I'm planning on keeping this sheet up-to-date as more info comes in. A few questions: I'm guessing Russia / AIN isn't eligible for winning the team race, right? If not, it'll still be really interesting to follow the team race between USA & Russia since it seems pretty much dead even. Does anyone know if Iran is sending Ghasempour or Azarpira at 92kg? I thought Ghasempour was injured, and Azarpira is listed as their rep on Instagram, but Ghasempour is on the UWW entries list instead of Azarpira.

Hmmmm the Greco list includes Russian athletes in addition to Belarussian athletes under AIN. My guess is that Russia didn't give UWW their finalized list soon enough for this initial entries list given the recent wrestle-offs w/ Sidakov and Sadulaev. Flo's only comment I could find was: Definitely weird, but I feel like there'd be more of a discussion somewhere about it if Russian MFS weren't going.

Man, I was really looking forward to this match. Does anyone know the details on why he withdrew? From the bit of that interview his father gave, I couldn't sus out any concrete details.

Same reason Askren fought him: it's an amazing payday $$$