MHSN 3,305 Posted July 16, 2023 #61 Share Posted July 16, 2023 This tournament in Budapest was the last round of our trials (in 3 weights) and now we know the name of the freestyle team. in 57 and 70 both of our guys failed to medal so they had a re-match later after the finals. hard to imagine Iran winning a medal in those 2 weights, specially at 57kg which is clearly impossible but I like our chances in other 8 weights. our 92kg two time World Champion is injured so they had to test someone else in this weight in case Ghasempour doesn't make it (the other guy did good but ran into ISR in the SF and had to withdraw) lots of things depend on Russia's participation. they will be top favorite in most weights if they participate. but the freestyle team title will be between Iran and USA. (AIN can't win team trophies) HUN Ranking series was the last tournament before the Worlds. the seeding is finalized now phelps, pedja789 and Josh 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,990 Posted July 16, 2023 #62 Share Posted July 16, 2023 Ranking Series Tournament in Budapest Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling Champions (Part II) -67kg: Hasrat Jafarov -72kg: Seyed Sohrabi -77kg: Sanan Suleymanov -82kg: Erik Szilvassy -87kg: David Losoczi -97kg: Tamas Levai -130kg: Amir Ghasemi Josh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSN 3,305 Posted July 17, 2023 #63 Share Posted July 17, 2023 On 7/16/2023 at 11:43 PM, phelps said: -130kg: Amir Ghasemi this 130kg guy won the gold medal without scoring a single point himself that's amazing, isn't it ? all of his points were his opponents caution there is a big hole in the rules since 2021 and there is no sign of change to fix the issue. under current rules in Greco-Roman lots of matches end 1-1 (if both guys fail to score which happens in close matches) and in this case the guy who was passive in the 1st period will win the match for that reason lots of heavyweight wrestlers prefer to receive the first caution. we saw lots of matches when both guys almost do nothing in the first period to be more "passive" that's how Ghasemi won the gold yesterday. phelps and Josh 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,990 Posted July 18, 2023 #64 Share Posted July 18, 2023 12 hours ago, MHSN said: this 130kg guy won the gold medal without scoring a single point himself that's amazing, isn't it ? all of his points were his opponents caution there is a big hole in the rules since 2021 and there is no sign of change to fix the issue. under current rules in Greco-Roman lots of matches end 1-1 (if both guys fail to score which happens in close matches) and in this case the guy who was passive in the 1st period will win the match for that reason lots of heavyweight wrestlers prefer to receive the first caution. we saw lots of matches when both guys almost do nothing in the first period to be more "passive" that's how Ghasemi won the gold yesterday. it looks like they're trying every trick to have GR wrestling removed from the Olympic program I'm waiting for something like this to happen in the Paris 2024 medal matches with some influent people going for a harsh protest against these rules and zac! the damage is done Josh and MHSN 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSN 3,305 Posted July 27, 2023 #65 Share Posted July 27, 2023 finally after something like 2 years of absence, the great Abdulrashid Sadulaev came back to the mat for an international competition called "Commonwealth" ? (or something like that) and he was just a shadow of himself , almost lost to Sergey Kozyrev in the semifinal. he missed the Russian nationals which was their trials for the Worlds 2023 (if they participate eventually) but will get a chance to wrestle national winner Zhabrailov later. but from what I saw today he can lose to any above average wrestler now. of course he has two months to improve but looks like he didn't train at all in past 2 years. he looked completely out of shape. phelps 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owenp_23 559 Posted August 10, 2023 #66 Share Posted August 10, 2023 (edited) Wrestling UWW Oceanian Championships 2023 Day 1 Results Greco-Roman 67kg 1. Ando Lehtmets 2. Cristian Nicolescu 3. Alan Latham Greco-Roman 72kg 1. Taylor Pickering 2. Guy De Lumeau 3. Daiziel Detudamo Greco-Roman 77kg 1. Lowe Bingham 2. Sheng Zhang 3. Taavi Porter Greco-Roman 82kg 1. Tamahau McComb 2. Adam Hextall 3. Vinod Kumar Greco-Roman 87kg 1. Rohan Kalisch 2. Nolan Puletasi 3. Rikki Swete Greco-Roman 97kg 1. Willie Alofipo 2. Harrison Rourke 3. Teiki Nauta Women 50kg 1. Tianna Fernandez 2. Juliana Valencia 3. Paulina Duenas Women 53kg 1. Mia Aquino 2. Jessica Lavers Women 57kg 1. Rckaela Aquino 2. Irene Symeonidis 3. Clare Lawler Women 62kg 1. Victoria Chen 2. Laralei Gandaoli Women 72kg 1. Tayla Ford 2. Uilau Tarkong 3. Annie Aloisio Edited August 10, 2023 by Sindo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owenp_23 559 Posted August 10, 2023 #67 Share Posted August 10, 2023 (edited) Wrestling UWW Oceanian Championships 2023 Day 2 Results Freestyle 57kg 1. Kaige Brown 2. Thomas Santiago 3. Josh Failauga Freestyle 61kg 1. Junjun Asebias 2. Suraj Singh 3. David Class Freestyle 65kg 1. Georgii Okorokov 2. Ethan Aguigui 3. Liam Gusti Freestyle 70kg 1. Brahm Richards 2. Daiziel Detudamo 3. Joshua Riley Freestyle 74kg 1. Artemios Trepca 2. Ethan Thomas 3. Guy De Lumeau Freestyle 79kg 1. Melih Haktan 2. Michael Fragomeni 3. Gus Barrier Freestyle 86kg 1. Jayden Lawrence 2. Walid Abdo 3. Ricktak Iban Freestyle 92kg 1. Connor Evans 2. Sateki Langi 3. Rikki Swete Freestyle 97kg 1. Thomas Barns 2. Willie Alofipo 3. Lachlan Reeve Edited August 10, 2023 by Sindo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSN 3,305 Posted October 10, 2023 #68 Share Posted October 10, 2023 UWW provisionally suspended multiple time World bronze medalist Mohammad Ali Geraei because of what happened in Belgrade during the World Championships. his brother M. Reza (World and Olympic Champion) was about to lose his lead in 1/8 final match against a Japanese wrestler until someone from the crowd (later revealed to be his brother) threw a bottle of water to the mat, stopped it for few minutes, giving his already-dead-brother some minutes to recover a bit and somehow survives the match 10-10 or 11-10. Reza lost his next match heavily (he was already dead) but came back the next day to win the bronze and the Olympic quota. that was a very shameful act and he deserves a long ban I would gladly give up that quota/medal. we were always proud of our wrestlers being fair and committed to sportsmanship rafalgorka, Noorderling29, Josh and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSN 3,305 Posted November 12, 2023 #69 Share Posted November 12, 2023 rumors/reports say that Alexander Komarov (World U23 Champion 2021) will wrestle for Serbia from 2024. it didn't take long for Serbia to buy a "replacement" for Zurabi Datunashvili. apparently he is married to a Serbian girl so this one makes sense. I mean comparing to Arsalan, Datunashvili, Kajaia, Tibilov and Tsabolov , but who cares, he is good and will one of the contenders for the quota. Jesse_Pinkman), Roamingrover86 and Josh 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHSN 3,305 Posted November 18, 2023 #70 Share Posted November 18, 2023 On 10/11/2023 at 12:48 AM, MHSN said: UWW provisionally suspended multiple time World bronze medalist Mohammad Ali Geraei because of what happened in Belgrade during the World Championships. his brother M. Reza (World and Olympic Champion) was about to lose his lead in 1/8 final match against a Japanese wrestler until someone from the crowd (later revealed to be his brother) threw a bottle of water to the mat, stopped it for few minutes, giving his already-dead-brother some minutes to recover a bit and somehow survives the match 10-10 or 11-10. Reza lost his next match heavily (he was already dead) but came back the next day to win the bronze and the Olympic quota. that was a very shameful act and he deserves a long ban I would gladly give up that quota/medal. we were always proud of our wrestlers being fair and committed to sportsmanship Geraei is now officially banned for 1 year. of course he will appeal but if that stays, he will miss the Olympics and I believe that will be the end of his career. indeed he deserved it. Josh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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