Wrestling UWW World Championships 2025

[copravolley 640]

 

[phelps 8,696]

40 minutes ago, copravolley said:

I remember that in 2000, it was a man from the USA who defeated Karelin in Sydney, ending his long- winning streak for many years. Do you remember the name of this American? It was a huge topic of discussion in the sports world at the time, not just in wrestling.

Rulon Gardner

he was very unlucky, because he had his career cut short by a bad home accident

[copravolley 640]

3 minutes ago, phelps said:

Rulon Gardner

he was very unlucky, because he had his career cut short by a bad home accident

But he won OG gold and he defeated Karelin. This man has already made history of sports.

[phelps 8,696]

2 minutes ago, copravolley said:

But he won OG gold and he defeated Karelin. This man has already made history of sports.

I'm still mourning that day

uww (at that time still named fila) established such a stupid clinch rule in gr-rom wrestling that looked made on purpose to put the great Karelin under threat

and finally they had success 

Karelin is one of my all-time favourites in any sport 

[copravolley 640]

7 minutes ago, phelps said:

I'm still mourning that day

uww (at that time still named fila) established such a stupid clinch rule in gr-rom wrestling that looked made on purpose to put the great Karelin under threat

and finally they had success 

Karelin is one of my all-time favourites in any sport 

Every domination must always end and Karelin maybe should have retreated earlier? Karelin's defeat symbolically showed the end of the USSR's era of power- almost 10 years after its actual fall. A highly symbolic event.

Edited September 14, 2025 by copravolley

[George_D 1,640]

9 minutes ago, copravolley said:

Every domination must always end and Karelin maybe should have retreated earlier? Karelin's defeat symbolically showed the end of the USSR's era of power- almost 10 years after its actual fall. A highly symbolic event.

i dont think so.  had better performance in wrestling in sydney than in atlanta 1996. And they continued to top the medal table in this sport even until 2016 from the year they competed under special status and restrictions. Their golds usually varied between 5 to 7 .

In 1988  (15 nations) had 8 golds but the olympic categories were 10 in both freestyle and greco-roman, not 6 or 7.

So until the state-sponsored doping issue that emerged from 2014 they were the dominant force.

[copravolley 640]

4 minutes ago, George_D said:

i dont think so.  had better performance in wrestling in sydney than in atlanta 1996. And they continued to top the medal table in this sport even until 2016 from the year they competed under special status and restrictions. Their golds usually varied between 5 to 7 .

In 1988  (15 nations) had 8 golds but the olympic categories were 10 in both freestyle and greco-roman, not 6 or 7.

So until the state-sponsored doping issue that emerged from 2014 they were the dominant force.

You're right, but what mattered was the symbol that went out to the world: a big bear from Russia lost to someone from the USA, while the average person didn't look at the statistics of medals, you wrote about. I remember that day on Eurosportnews channel the news about Karelin's loss was broadcast from morning till night, as the most important news of the Games.

Edited September 14, 2025 by copravolley

[MHSN 3,813]

40 minutes ago, phelps said:

I'm still mourning that day

uww (at that time still named fila) established such a stupid clinch rule in gr-rom wrestling that looked made on purpose to put the great Karelin under threat

and finally they had success 

Karelin is one of my all-time favourites in any sport 

FILA tried so many different and stupid rules to avoid a match ending up 0-0. Karelin was just unlucky they tried that one in 2000. 

 

if I'm not wrong that was the first time they were trying that chest-to-chest format. I don't think it was in 1999. they made that up right before the Olympics. 

 

Karelin still could win the match though. 

 

nowadays they made it easy for themselves, giving caution to someone randomly and then it's not 0-0 anymore 

[George_D 1,640]

Today finals:

 

Men's freestyle -57 kg : Han Chong-song  vs  Bekzat Almaz Uulu

Men's freestyle -74 kg : Chermen Valiev vs Kota Takahashi

Men's freestyle -79 kg : Georgios Kougioumtsidis  vs Levi Haines 

Men's freestyle -92 kg : Trent Hidlay  vs Amanula Gadzhimagomedov 

 

 

 

     

[copravolley 640]

28 minutes ago, George_D said:

Today finals:

 

Men's freestyle -57 kg : Han Chong-song  vs  Bekzat Almaz Uulu

Men's freestyle -74 kg : Chermen Valiev vs Kota Takahashi

Men's freestyle -79 kg : Georgios Kougioumtsidis  vs Levi Haines 

Men's freestyle -92 kg : Trent Hidlay  vs Amanula Gadzhimagomedov 

 

 

 

     

All of this are olimpic events?

Edited September 15, 2025 by copravolley