PJ and Kodzokov (russian wrestling for brazil) will be the last match of the session…
max’s bracket is weird…
they are showing him having a semi opposite of the guy who took 2nd in his pool…
i guess he will wrestle whoever took second in the pool b…
weird…
never seen that before…
PJ attacking the hip over and over and finally gets it running him to the edge with an immediate transition into a gut… 4-0 early…
PJ gets him put down… 5-0…
can’t get anything goin in par terre…
it ends 5-0 PJ at the break…
lots of topugh handfighting… PJ gets put down late in the period… 5-1…
give up a gut 5-3 50 seconds left…
that is the way it ends…
gritty match…
i guess this is the old school way of doing pool play from before i was involved…
like john smith losing in pool play and coming back for the gold…
jason bryant breaking out the multi lingual boradcast for the semis…
max and VEN…
VEN arm spin attempt that max fights off… ven has the hip… they fight that position for 30 seconds than ven gets the body lock and goes for throw but max doesn’t expose and they call legs on ven…
max put down but par terre defense on point…
first ends 1-0 VEN…
pace quickens early second…
ven gets put down…
max gets the gut…
3-1 1:50…
lots of digging for hooks… hard hand fighting… staying inb the center…
sweaty mess…
max playing defense… couple of arm spin and head lock attempts but nothing doing…
looks like he will have mexico in the finals…
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coleman and chile…
coleman pushing him all over the mat…
coleman gets the step out…
then get chile put down…
coleman gets the gut and then gets a lift and has him in the air for a long time trying to get the best position for the throw…
finally gets a toss that is less spectacular than he was looking for but is giving 4…
YOLO brick
challenge won… 4 taken away… that is weird…
4-0 coleman
chile tries an ill advised late throw that coleman cathes and puts him to his back for the pin with just a couple of seconds left…
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orta abuses an 18 year old from mexico…
two big head pinches for 4 each…
he is a problem…
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bey and brazil up next…
arroyo getting it put to him in second forced par terre…
he is down 7-1 late…
looks like nutter will not be brought back in to repechage…
bey and brazil lots of hand fighting that brazil is controlling…
brazil gets the step out on bey… 1-0
bey gets put down… 2-0…
brazil gets bey in the air and rotates but bey also rotates with him and does not give up any exposure… no points…
brazil throws the brick…
challeneg lost…
2-1 brazil…
that could be huge…
bey gets to his lock and tosses for a correct throw… 3-2 bey
bey getting a little chippy and punching his underhook… gets another lock and loads up driving to the edge but loses the position… does get the step out…
4-2 bey at the break…
bey gets him put down in the second… 5-2…
goes reverse lift but does not seem super interested… brazil fights off a better attempt late…
1:30 left…
bey gets his underhook pretty deep and drives brazil out of bounds with a toss… brazil does good job not giving up 4…
7-2 bey
bey gets a body lock and immediately goes big for 4… that was pretty
11-2 final…
he will have Julfalakyan in the semis… i was surprised to see that dude not only still competing but now for argentinia… he is a X olympian… O silver… 4X world medalist gold, silver, and 2 bronzes…
that will be a good match
PJ has honduras now…
working ties and PJ gets to a hip and ends up rotating dude for 4 and then gets 2 guts for a quick 8-0 win and makes it to the finals after giving up a loss in pool play…
in the other 87kg semis between ven and mexico it is getting chippy…
mexico with a deliberate head butt… then during a hand fight grabs ven finger and intentionally goes straight back in an attempt to break that damn thing off… that was crazy…
gives up the caution and 2 to go behind 2-1… then gets put down and turned and then gives up another stepout…
VEN goes up 6-1 and that is how it ends and PJ gets a chance to avenge his loss from pool play…
VEN intially refuse to shake hands and then walking by gives him a shoulder… crowd erupts… they force a hand shake… ven then goes to mexico and gives him some lip…
schultz and honduras now…
schultz pushing him around…
HON put down…
schultz jumps front head and turns against for his assassin and dude does not fight it a bit and gets pinned…
schultz will have Pino who steam rolled his semis…
i think they have wrestled twice before with Pino winning both…
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as a rundown, out of the 8weight classes so far, US has a finalist at 7 weights…
55kg there were only two and they will just wrestle for gold this evening, but, whatever… you can only wrestle who shows up…
67 is the only weight we will not bring home a medal in today…
not a horrible showing…
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As usual, thanks for all the updates!
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medal matches should be starting any minute…
and by any minute apparently that means at 30 past the hour…
raney and mexico about to go down…
raney way bigger…
raney gets a scrambly TD ealry…
slip throw from mexico on the edge…
ref conference…
they award raney a TD… 4-1 raney…
raney with a step out… pushing this kid all over the place… 5-1
gets another presure TD on the edge…
followed up with a step out…
8-1…
mexico with another slip throw under pressure…
raney with a high dive for a TD and piucks up gold 10-1…
still has not wrestled a true senior yet, but, good for him…
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max and mexico about to get underway…
max withy a quick duk attempt and then right to grabbing the hip…
carrying the action…
arm spin slip throw by max…
not his game…
mexico goes down…
gets two guts and big lift fdor 4 for the gold medal…
fuk yes…
so pumped for max!!!
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