Wrestling 2024 Discussion Thread

[MHSN 3,813]

 David Taylor surprisingly came out of retirement  to try his chance in US trials at 92kg for 2024 World Championships (non-Olympic weights) this weekend

 

there are some rumors that the great Abdulrashid Sadulev also wants to try his chance at 92kg to add another world title to his resume, personally I think that's not correct but we will see.

 

but if this is true and if Taylor wins the US trials and again if Albania don't act shit like last year it will be a hell of a competition between Taylor, Sadulaev and Ghasempour.  much more interesting than anything we saw in Paris.

 

ps: the great Jordan Burroughs will wrestle in US trials too, probably for his last hurrah 

Edited September 13, 2024 by MHSN

[phelps 8,636]

5 hours ago, MHSN said:

 David Taylor surprisingly came out of retirement  to try his chance in US trials at 92kg for 2024 World Championships (non-Olympic weights) this weekend

 

there are some rumors that the great Abdulrashid Sadulev also wants to try his chance at 92kg to add another world title to his resume, personally I think that's not correct but we will see.

 

but if this is true and if Taylor wins the US trials and again if Albania don't act shit like last year it will be a hell of a competition between Taylor, Sadulaev and Ghasempour.  much more interesting than anything we saw in Paris.

 

ps: the great Jordan Burroughs will wrestle in US trials too, probably for his last hurrah 

with the next Olympics being in LA, I'm not that surprised that the US guys suddenly make up their mind about retirement (maybe announced a bit too early)

Edited September 13, 2024 by phelps

[MHSN 3,813]

 Hassan Yazdani after his shoulder surgery in France yesterday
(he had another shoulder surgery last year which wasn't great and we saw what happened in the Olympic final )

 

 

most people thought the Olympic final was the last match of his career but that's not his plan. he still wants to come back to win that 2nd Olympic gold after losing two Olympic finals in 2021 and 2024  in dramatic ways 

 

even if everything goes well he will be out for 2025 season and will come back to the mat in 2026. he won World/Olympic medals from 2015 to 2024 and this means his 10-year streak will be broken 

Edited September 18, 2024 by MHSN

[MHSN 3,813]

UWW changes few things for Russian/Belarus wrestlers

 

https://uww.org/article/uww-updates-eligibility-criteria-russia-belarus-wrestlers

 

I assume with the new criteria almost all (if not all) of them will be eligible for UWW competitions. I'm talking about top Russian wrestlers.

 

which means we will most probably see Sadulaev in Albania next month.  Uguev too, from what I heard he has to wrestle AbbasGadzhi Magomedov first to make the team.

 

 

[vovanA 210]

12 hours ago, MHSN said:

UWW changes few things for Russian/Belarus wrestlers

 

https://uww.org/article/uww-updates-eligibility-criteria-russia-belarus-wrestlers

 

I assume with the new criteria almost all (if not all) of them will be eligible for UWW competitions. I'm talking about top Russian wrestlers.

 

which means we will most probably see Sadulaev in Albania next month.  Uguev too, from what I heard he has to wrestle AbbasGadzhi Magomedov first to make the team.

 

 

Sadulaev and Uguev took part in pro-war rally. if it's not "public declarations [in written or orally] in support of the war", then what should it be?

[copravolley 632]

13 hours ago, vovanA said:

Sadulaev and Uguev took part in pro-war rally. if it's not "public declarations [in written or orally] in support of the war", then what should it be?

You mean the rally when Rylov and Bolshunov were there, for example?

[vovanA 210]

8 hours ago, copravolley said:

You mean the rally when Rylov and Bolshunov were there, for example?

yes, in early 2022

[MHSN 3,813]

preliminary entry list for the World Championships (non-Olympic weights) 2024

 

https://uww.org/article/world-championships-non-olympic-weights-2024-entries

 

Abdulrashid Sadulaev won the Russian trials yesterday (he didn't look good though) and therefore his name is here, as well as another Olympic Champion Zaur Uguev. with David Taylor, Jordan Burroughs and Reza Geraei we have at least 5 Olympic Champions in the list 

 

also interesting to see lots of guys (Berdimuratov, Ganbaatar, Tsakulov, Kaipanov etc) cut weight massively from their usual Olympic weight to wrestle here.  which shows the importance of a World Championship title 

 

ps: 2024 Olympians are not allowed to wrestle here.

[MHSN 3,813]

Today in Albania  (World U23 Champs) both guys got disqualified obviously

 

A bit warmup for the real deal. World Championships (non-Oly weights) and the big battle of Taylor/Sadulaev/Ghasempour 

 

 

[MHSN 3,813]

UWW's new rules for change of nationality

 

this doesn't look great for likes of Bahrain, Albania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Serbia and few more. 

 

still it won't make a huge huge impact for the next Olympic cycle because each NOC still can use 2 mercenaries per style in each tournament but after 2028 it will be reduced to just 1. 

 

some of those countries already have 3 or 4 (or more) Russian mercenaries per style. from now on they have to pick 2 of them for each tournament.

I assumed the new rule applies to previous mercenaries too
.

https://cdn.uww.org/2024-11/change_of_nationality_regulation_eng_oct2024_final.pdf

also you can't wrestle for another country without a passport. (UWW allowed that for some years) current non-national wrestlers can continue like that until the end of 2026 though.

 

it could be better but in general I'm OK with new rules. good job by UWW.