Basset has some amazing wins for a HSer or any age ..Great tourney for him.I enjoy his videos he seems very humble
big win for Luke usually i root for Penn State and not Iowa but Ive been a fan of Lee,Great match..Im hoping Duke wrestles next year Id also like to see Sealey get in the line up as well as Kasak But dont see how they getting all 3 in so it may be Duke with the redshirt.Im also all in on Basset him and Duke my favorites now in college as well as a few NY guys..I was a fan of Lovett who had some great winsā¦Congrads to Otto ..What happened to Max in wrestle backs ? i thought u said he still be on one of the teams
Max got head locked and stuck by a kid he has beaten probably 5Xs before and then did not bother weighing in for second day and 5th place matchā¦
Just a really bad day for himā¦
Another example that nothing is guaranteed and everyday you get to compete is a gift and should not be taken for grantedā¦
I am almost 100% certain that Koelzer (3rd) is not U23 eligible so Max can still make that team if he wins U23 nationals in a monthā¦
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cant always be the hammer sometimes you have to be the nail..first lesson i learned by Matt Serra when i trained there
Cejudo got worked at a huge tournament only months before his Olympic Gold. Wins are confirmation and losses are lessons.
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There is a flip side to the coinā¦
It was a huge moment for the two guys who beat himā¦ neither had beforeā¦ one of them max probably first wrestled when they were U15 agedā¦
Roberts came back from a horrible tourney last year and won the spot backā¦
Max will be fineā¦
it is official nowā¦ they are moving Senior Worlds from Bahrainā¦
not any surprise, but, where and when yet to be announcedā¦
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Have them bring it to my house. You and me can grill while we watch your boys merc people.
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They should move it to somewhere thatās never hosted it. Iād like to really see it held at the soccer stadium in Monaco. They already hold the Deglane tournament in Nice which is like 10 miles away. Monaco would be awesome.
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they are leaning towards somewhere in Asiaā¦
a few years ago when Poland was refusing the UWW athletes VISAs for U20 Worlds, Jordan got it because they offered the biggest bagā¦
who knows what will happenā¦
the most interesting thing is the dateā¦
right now Seniors is a week and half after U23 Worldsā¦ an extra week between would not necessarilly bother me at all..
i only watched the finals of U20 and that was toughā¦
butā¦
good to see coby merrill flip the script on dreshaun ross and pick up the winā¦
the new grounding rules is taking away rossā biggest weapon of doing nothing and just dropping to his knees all match and then one athletic move with 5 seconds left to win by 1ā¦
I remember one wrestler didnāt go to worlds when it was in Jordan because their parents thought it was unsafe. I asked Dan Russell about it and he just laughed and said it was probably the safest place you could have been.
dudeā¦
both of my momās are old, pushing 80ā¦ they are always so āconcernedā where the boys are and how close it is to somewhere elseā¦ whether or not they are āsafeā
people who only watch the news and never do anything are always scaredā¦
whateverā¦
i will sayā¦ Max hated Jordanā¦ of course they tried to kill everyone with food poisoning at the hotel, but, there was nothing about that place he likedā¦
they base most everything on the food and the local talentā¦
croatia, hungary, estoniaā¦ all high on their listā¦
they are not really big on anywhere in central/south americaā¦
i feel like in azerbajian they did have to move with the local militaryā¦
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Itās probably a sign Iām getting up there, but I donāt remember who said what, but somebody, could have been somebody like Brinzer or Henderson, maybe Sims? Anyway they told me when they went to Bulgaria they packed a suitcase that had nothing but food that wouldnāt go bad for like a month in it. Because they didnāt know if theyād run into a situation where they got sick or couldnāt find anything that wasnāt questionable, so they had it as a backup plan. Especially since USA Wrestling didnāt give a shit either.
it is an entirely different world nowā¦
hear stories about guys traveling in the soviet union in the 80s and at times it sounded really bleakā¦
the boys spent a couple of weeks in georgia last winter and they had a blastā¦ all came back with papakhasā¦ it sounded like a good timeā¦
obviously almost all their trips they spend the majority in a gym and those all the same almost wherever you goā¦
but they usually get a couple of days to go enjoy the local lifeā¦
one of them might have ended up in the red light district in amsterdam when they were 17 and learned a few thingsā¦
i do not pretend that i ever get all the storiesā¦
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I was listening to Alger today and they were asking him about crazy things heās seen overseas, and the answer he gave was not what I expected. Mostly because I know that he had seen a lot crazier things than that.
One of my coaches said that some of the wrestlers did very well because they did business with Mafia type guys in some parts of Europe and when they came over to wrestle, theyād bring things that werenāt easily available, or that you just couldnāt get. This went on into like the mid to late 90ās because even though the cold war ended, it still took a while for things to become more normal and open. I donāt know what itās like now, but back then, those kinds of guys were always around wrestling and would throw parties, have big dinners at restaurants, all kinds of things like that.
i have no clue if there is any mafia involvement in russian wrestling currentlyā¦
i do love the stories from hockey guys who go over and play in the KHLā¦
judging from that craziness the russian mafia is still very much involved in sportā¦
listening to the Flo Bros this morningā¦
it is very hard for me to pay all that much attention to the leg grabbers when there is Greco going onā¦
i knew Carr lost, but, it did not really register as i was still reeling a bit from maxās lossā¦ listening to them discuss carrās performance just felt very familiar to my own thoughtsā¦
i see so many posts on my own social media after the open and 99% of them are along the lines of just how hard this tournament isā¦ didnāt have my best performanceā¦ will be back next yearā¦ going to get betterā¦
that is because only one person in every bracket comes away from the open truly happyā¦
everyone else has to question what they did leading up to the tourneyā¦ what they did during the tourneyā¦ their coachesā¦ their practice partnersā¦ everythingā¦
this sport is brutalā¦
which is why it is the best sport on the planetā¦
i know none of this is some revelation or anythingā¦ not a hot takeā¦ just listening to the pod and thinking things instead of fully committing to software problem shooting on a monday morningā¦
Flo Bros brought up an interesting statā¦
this was Spencer Leeās first domestic free style loss since Fix beat him at Cadets in 2015ā¦
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This was a great match. Boās gas tank is on another level.
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