Wrestling UWW World Championships 2025

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Wrestling UWW World Championships 2025

 

Zagreb (CRO) - 13 September 2025 - 21 September 2025

 

 

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Edited September 19 by Sindo

[Illya 585]

Another great news, according to our sources Abdulrashid Sadulaev is out of the World Championship due to his war-related activity and failing to receive a visa to Croatia 

[Federer91 3,020]

People at UWW (and a few other smaller sports) love to shoot themselves with the scheduling. Like no one saw that this exact week are the athletics and volleyball World Championships as well.   We need to seriously get away from this late August-September cluster, where 20 sports want to have their WCH. Especially pure indoor sports like wrestling, where they could very easily have them the first week of October for instance.

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30 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

People at UWW (and a few other smaller sports) love to shoot themselves with the scheduling. Like no one saw that this exact week are the athletics and volleyball World Championships as well.   We need to seriously get away from this late August-September cluster, where 20 sports want to have their WCH. Especially pure indoor sports like wrestling, where they could very easily have them the first week of October for instance.

wrestling is always my priority but it sucks big time having 3 big WCHs (big in my book) at the same time.  have to prepare myself for a sleepless long week 

 

btw what's the latest update on Bulgarian big names ? are they gone for good ? or will be back next year ? any sign of one side (the federation or them) giving up ? 

 

we hear news about them almost everyday  the last I read in our media is that Novikov and Ramazanov (why him?! he has problems too ?) are thinking about switching NOC and representing somewhere else. which is not correct, they can't do that. it's either Bulgaria or retirement for them.

 

I don't feel sympathy for mercenaries but Milov will be missed though . I was looking forward to see him in Worlds after dethroning King Artur at Euros. 

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18 hours ago, Illya said:

Another great news, according to our sources Abdulrashid Sadulaev is out of the World Championship due to his war-related activity and failing to receive a visa to Croatia 

Furthermore according to some sources he will not be able to receive Shengen next 2 years.

He got tourist visa to visit Spain but tried to use it to go to Romania to take part in competitions.

So he is now blacklisted and will not compete in Shengen.

Do you know if Sidakov got visa? Yesterday he was also on waiting list.

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23 hours ago, MHSN said:

wrestling is always my priority but it sucks big time having 3 big WCHs (big in my book) at the same time.  have to prepare myself for a sleepless long week 

 

btw what's the latest update on Bulgarian big names ? are they gone for good ? or will be back next year ? any sign of one side (the federation or them) giving up ? 

 

we hear news about them almost everyday  the last I read in our media is that Novikov and Ramazanov (why him?! he has problems too ?) are thinking about switching NOC and representing somewhere else. which is not correct, they can't do that. it's either Bulgaria or retirement for them.

 

I don't feel sympathy for mercenaries but Milov will be missed though . I was looking forward to see him in Worlds after dethroning King Artur at Euros. 

 

Looks like this situation is way more interesting in Iran, than it is here.  Frankly people have stopped bothering with it after the big fuss in April. There were some mentions this week after the team for the WCH was announced, but the general reactions are the likes of eye rolling and "another usual Bulgarian sports federation circus, who cares"

 

As for an update, it's same status quo. Both sides are not budging. The Federation's rule is firm, you either train with the new National team coaches in a centralized system and cut ties with the former regime, or you don't compete in the big events. And evidently they have no problem excluding our 3 best wrestlers because of this. They are not banned forever, if they agree to train with the NT they will be back, but by the looks of it, it's not happening soon.

 

Of course it's a real shame for the wrestlers themselves, especially Milov, who came back from a big injury and missed his weight in Paris. Ramazanov is supposedly injured and will have surgery, so allegedly this is the reason he misses the WCH, but i think he is in the same group with the rest.

 

As for switching the NOC, wasn't the new rule excluding previous switches before it was implemented? As in, you can only make one NOC change after the new rule starts, regardless if you have already switched before, or am i missing something?

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By the way, i haven't looked at the stats, but i'm pretty sure this is going to be our smallest team at a WCH in decades.. From 30 weights, we are sending 14 wrestlers, not even 50% 

 

Men's Freestyle - 7 , Greco - 4, Women's Freestyle - 3 

 

The collapse in the women is especially shocking, since for years it was by far our strongest style and our team very well was top 5-6 in the World. 

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13 hours ago, Federer91 said:

 

Looks like this situation is way more interesting in Iran, than it is here.  Frankly people have stopped bothering with it after the big fuss in April. There were some mentions this week after the team for the WCH was announced, but the general reactions are the likes of eye rolling and "another usual Bulgarian sports federation circus, who cares"

 

Of course it's a real shame for the wrestlers themselves, especially Milov, who came back from a big injury and missed his weight in Paris. Ramazanov is supposedly injured and will have surgery, so allegedly this is the reason he misses the WCH, but i think he is in the same group with the rest.

Mr Ramazanov managed to beat our best wrestler ever in an Olympic final, so yeah our media will follow him to the grave.  Novikov's name usually comes with him. (Greco's popularity here is 10 times smallar than freestyle anyway)

 

Ramazanov had a shoulder surgery recently (ironically he won his Olympic gold because of someone else's failed shoulder surgery)

 

wrestling fans here are dying to see someone takes revenge against Ramazanov,  that's not happening in 2025. maybe next year.

 

  

13 hours ago, Federer91 said:

 

As for switching the NOC, wasn't the new rule excluding previous switches before it was implemented? As in, you can only make one NOC change after the new rule starts, regardless if you have already switched before, or am i missing something?

no this is not new, this is an ancient rule in UWW/FILA. you can't wrestle for a 3rd country nor move back to your old NOC, once you switch, that's for the rest of your career. 

 

in recent history I can't remember any wrestler competing for 3 NOCs. so I assume they are strict about this one. 

 

 

Edited September 12 by MHSN

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Musukaev was the man of the day so far 

 

attacking the Japanese wrestler on the mat

(Aoyagi is trying to show the ref that Musukaev had locked his fingers but he did in a weird/funny/stupid way)

 

 

and later off the mat

 

 

Edited September 13 by MHSN

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 with a high schooler in the Bronze medal match in 61kg!  Jax Forrest is 18 years old, 2025 US and PanAm champ.  Lost in the semis to Tokyo Gold medalist Zaur Uguev