missed what happenned with tibilov and ganiev but looked over late and saw it was 5-5 in the second…
ganiev did win 5-5… will have to rewatch as it was clearly a war
on the phone missing 72, but, france up in second 2-1 over kaz…
need france to win to pull sancho back in
france up 3-2 1 minute left
kaz coming hard but france holding him off…
kaz goes flying squirrel and france takes him to his back for the win and sancho back in
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azizli comes back from getting beat by an 18 year old yesterday to tech smash for bronze in the first period…
the 18 year old that beat 4X world champ azizli yesterday just got beat another 18 from georgia for gold…
amoyan just etched smashed reigning olympic gold medalist kusaka…
greco is different…
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getting ready to go off line after this heavy weight gold medal match…
but…
an amusing story…
tom brands texted a buddy today at about 4:30AM asking why joe warren wasn’t in max’s corner…
if otto’s short stint at iowa accomplished anything it at least has the brands brothers actually watching greco now…
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ok…
max and israel and sancho and armenia off jump this morning…
if max wins he will 2024 Olympic bronze medalist and #1 ranked North Korean…
if sancho beats the very young armenian then he will sohrabi from iran…
giddy up…
max and israel…
lots of fingers… max with a drag attempt… max giving up ground… couple more drags… israel pushing forward…
max goes down forst… 1-0 israel…
max defense on point… giving all the time to work… 1 minute left in the first…
max has a deep 2 on 1 but nothjing doing… fairly cautious on the feet by both… at the break 1-0
max has the under… nothing…
max goes outside head roll and takes israel OOB… 1-1 add a caution and one for fleeing… 2-1 max
israel pace picking up but cant get through… is taking ground… max dancing the edge…
max digs unders and forces israel OOB 3-1 1:20 left
max gets to the body but israel circles out… 45 left
israel gets to the body max catches and they go up in the air and max taskes him OOB for another step out… 4-1
yolo brick…
challenge lost… 5-1 max
max has the hip but wioely nothing crazy…
israel goes for head lock but nothing…
max gets the win…
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obviously paying close attention to max, but, did see sancho goes down 6-1 to the young armenian and he is now officially out…
up next is our guy payton jacobson against india…
lots of straqight arm pushing and not much pummeling early…
ref warns both to get chest to chest…
PJ goes arm spin and gets the TD and adds a turn… has the trap arm and adds 2 more turns for the quick 8-0 tech…
LFG!!!
PJ is max’s long time roommate and best friend… love that dude…
ellis coleman at 63kg up in a few against egypt…
coleman so long at this weight class and took bronze at one of the ranking series this year… not a punk…
coleman gets egypt tied up and goes big head and arm for 4 and egypt rolls him through… 4-2 coleman…
on the restart they both go body lock on the edge and egypt has the advantage and gets the throw with no exposure… ref wants 1 step out for coleman… officials conferring…
they white paddle everything which is an awful call… it literally can not be that…
egypt bricks…
official challenge won and they give coleman the step out… 5-2 egypt keeps the brick…
coleman double unders egypt trying sags… back in the center with the hand fight… kinda just standing around trying to egt position advantage…
coleman gets to a body lock and throws egypt and they award nothing again…
this crew needs to be run out of the building…
they finally award 4 for coleman and egypt going to throw the brick again…
not showing replay on the mat but feels like egypt is going to lose this and end up getting teched on a brick…
spey babbling with no knowledge of what he is watching saying egypt initiated which he clearly did not…
challenge comes back 4 for coleman and the lost challenge pioint gives coleman the tech…
i am going tohave to listen to spey in max’s match next and will want top reach through the screen and strangle him…
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max and north korea next…
max will have to control the match on the feet… north korea par terre is nasty nasty…
50/50 over under and korea tries to pancake but nothing…
korea goes drag attempt… back in the center but definitely controlling center… ref warning for action on max…
korea jumps head but nothing… they put max down… 1-0…
max crawling and defense is on point and gives up nothing…
that is huge…
korea jumps back on front head they whistle for action… 1:00 left
korea goes arm spin late in the first and gets the TD… 3-0 korea at the break…
piss…
got blood time for max before second starts… he is going to have to pick up the pace o nthe feet for sure when action starts…
they go 50/50 again and korea goers big and max fights it off and is behind but korea has the whizzer still… after a scramble korea take max to his back and has him in dange for about 20 seconds on his back… max bridging hard and manages to get back to belly and korea has the trap and gets the turn for the 9-0 tech in the second…
kinda bummed but can not really complain… max ranked 14th in the world and beats a multiple time euro medalist… he will place higher than his ranking in this tourney so i choose to focus on the positives
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alston nutter up next at 67kg against croatia…
nutter beat otto in the finals of world team trials in vegas to make this team… had been out of action for a couple of years prior… former junior world bronze medalist…
nutter looks smaller… gets pushed to the edge but circles out… nothing…
orta out here doing orta things with the quick tech in the first…
dude is a damn monster…
yolo brick of course…
no matter… love watching that dude wrestle…
now nutter taking ground and winning the center…
wow… gonna put nutter down, but, not surprising the croatian gets the call in croatia…
cro rolls up nutter quick in par terre… nutter looked to give up after the first turn… give up 2 quick and then decides to defend again but ends up giving the last turn…
YOLO brick by spencer mango…
challenge lost 10-0 tech in the first…
i really felt like that was a winnable match nutter going in…
but as always, this wrestling shit is hard…
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our guy PJ up next at 87kg against serbia…
multiple time world champ while the tourney was in serbia for two years and no serbian wrestler was bothered to make weight…
feed getting iffy…
come on man…
at least able to rewind to the begining of match…
PJ taking the center early…
srbian now getting started…
noth struggling to get angles and neither giving up anything…
PJ with a nice drag attempt but can not convert…
they put serbia down first and the coach is losing his mind…
JFC… feed shuts down again…
back up and rewinding…
PJ on the gut but not able to get a good lock and nothing doing… 1-0 PJ
only one real committed attack the rest of the first… drag by serbia but nothing…
1-0 at the break…
action picks up a little on the feet at the begin of second…
they put PJ down… 1-1 PJ criteria…
PJ gets exposed for 2 and immediately is calling for the challenge… doesnt think he broke…
(i need to learn to not say brick as there are not bricks anymore… gonna be tough because YOLO brick just feels right)
challenge lost… 4-1 serbia…
PJ tries a quick reach around but cant catch the hip… 1:30 left
couple drag attempts… refsa warns for fingers…
PJ definitely putting the pace on trying… trying every 2-1 and drag he has… digs an under… treies to jump front head… serbia totally closed off and defending going backwards…
surprised not getting hit with a caution but would not matter…
PJ gives up a step out right as time expires…
5-1 serbia…
ellis coleman at 63 coming up in a bit… he will have turkmenistan…
this should be another very winnable match for coleman…
coleman wildly longer… really getting those arms all wrapped… controlling center… TKM not able to through to anything…
TKM put down first… 1-0 coleman…
coleman gets the cuban gut and TKM tough on bottom and fights it off… 1-0
TKM tries a duk late and coleman catches him front head and trying hard on the head pinch… TKM comes up still in front head and gets the body lock and throws coleman… no exposure but awarded 2 and the break in contact and TKM circles behind for a TD… 4-1…
challenge from US… they do not want the initial 2…
challenge lost and now 5-1 going int othe break… TKM has an arm throw after time expires…
coleman opens up with a good club that TKM takes exception to… ref gives a warning…
TKM attempts duk and then another arm throw that is awrded 2… 7-1 TKM… 2:15 left…
they put coleman down… 8-1 TKM…
TKM takes it fairly easy on top… he knows this is matcjh is well in hand unless he does somehting stupid…
coleman still not able to get anything going on the feet… all TKM has to do is bury his head and back out of everything…
coleman goes patented flying squirrel late and gives up a 5…
12-1 TKM final
man… that one stings
a very encouraging start to the last 3 weights of greco ends with some real dissapointment…
have to wait till later this morning to find out if anyone gets pulled back in repechage…
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wow…
alirzaev smokes bisultanov… that’s a huge upset…
Komarov outlasts KAZ so PJ still in…
eriomenco (2024 U23 world champ) takes down TKM, so, coleman officially out… otto’s last tourney at 63 in february he wrestled eriomenco to a 4-0 loss… he decided after that tourney that 63kg was just too much of a pull for him and went up to 67kg right after…
etlinger gets tech smashed fast in the first so nutter officially out…
going to get to see jafarov and esmaeli first time today… both straight killers…
max’s first time at U20 worlds he wrestled esmaeli and got smashed… emsaeli Olympic gold last year at 21… esmaeili rolling… 8-0 tech early first…
jafarov olympic and multiple world medalist… family favorite… jafarov down 3-1 at the break to the stork galstyan from Armenia… he was a foot taller than everyone at 63kg and is still a fott taller than anyone at 67kg… jafarov gets passivity and correct throw to pick up the 4-3 win… great match… galstyan is so hard to wrestle being so fukn tall and long…
Komarov headed to the finals so our guy Payton Jacobsen back in for repechage tomorrow…
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wow…
KAZ guy that beat max 7-1 techs ganiev in the finals 8-0 in 1 minute…
the north korean max lost to in repechage techs shavadze in just 2 minutes for bronze…
crazy…
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ok…
i got some decent sleep last night for the first time in over a week… feel human again…
our guy payton jacobsen up next against japan…
PJ sprinting past japan on his way to the mat… i like the energy…
PJ with a drag attemtpt… both in the center… not much ground being given by either…
they are motioning for PJ and they put him down first… 1-0 japan…
PJ defends well, steps over and catches him on his back and holds him in danger… PJ says screw the fall and just picksd him up and throws big for 4… 6-1 PJ…
i can hear max’s loud obnoxious ass screaming in the backgorund…
PJ warned for fingers… japan tries to reach around to the hip… first ends 6-1 PJ…
JPN picking up the pace… PJ playing defense as he should…
they put JPN doiwn in the second… 7-1
PJ not trying too hard to rurn or lift… smart… nothing stupid…
nice… JPN goes front head and PJ gets behind for the 9-1 tech…
he will KAZ to see who goes for bronze…
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