'25 Budapest Ranking Series, 7/17-20
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Great showing from Carr and Hidlay. Carr beats Bayramov and Salkazanov and only loses 9-7 to Takahashi. Beating Salkazanov is a good win. Hidlay wins gold beating Abakarov, Kurugliev, and Maisuradze. Kurugliev is the big one but Hidlay did win by injury default while leading 2-0. Really good wins and shows they should both be in the medal hunt at worlds
This thread is also about the USA vs. Russia freestyle dual taking place on 7/21 in Budapest. I'm still on vaca, so no PBP from me, and any results I could post would be long after the end of the competition.
#5 in the world Lilledahl loses 8-5 to #4 Musa Mekhtikhanov. The match started earlier than the posted time. I went to watch Luke and it was just ending so I don’t know how the match went unfortunately
#1 Saiyn Kazyryk just demolished Andonian 13-0 in about a minute. Took him down 3 times, once for 4 and turned him once. Absolute beatdown. Duke will have his hands full with Kazyryk
Joey Blaze goes down to #10 Magoma Dibirgadzhiev 8-4. Good showing from Blaze. Close match except for 1 sequence where he got taken down and laced twice
Very tight match. Was 6-5, the Russian scored on a reattack off Luke's desperation shot right before the buzzer. The stream is rewindable. I watched after the fact.
From memory: Russian got first takedown on a quasi-like fireman’s carry. Luke with a point on failed challenge by Russian — looking for additional exposure on roll through. 1-2 Russia. Luke good defensive fight and position resulted in his counter takedown. 3-2 Luke. Russian has step out point. 3-3. Luke with nice throw by takedown to go up 5-3. Luke leading 5-3 with about 25-30 seconds to go. Russian with final takedown and plus fleeing with 12 seconds to go to take lead 6-5. Luke pressing action and gave up final desperation takedown with a second or two to go. Loses 8-5. Overall solid performance and great experience for Luke.
Hamiti decks 5 Mokhamed Nasirkhaev!! Hamiti looked great if a bit green in freestyle. He was down 8-4 but got 2 tds and on the last one took Nasirkhaev straight to his back for the fall. Great win for Hamiti!!
Nasirkhaev looked GASSED early in the first
Yep...good description. Sad thing is that when Luke was up 5-3, he looked like he was going to add to his lead a couple of times with under 40 secs left. Russian showed some good defense, but I think Luke may have let him go rather than risk rolling around even though Luke was in better position to score. Live and learn.
Great experience for LL!
Not sure why, but Marcus Coleman gets 16 seconds put back on the clock to win in the good ole American way with a dig deep come back!!! 8-7
I just went and watched the Lilledahl match. Actually kind of a brutal loss. He was in deep twice in the last 20 seconds and was so close to finishing on one of them. The Russian fought out and Luke gives up a go behind with seconds left. Good showing against Russias number 1 but Luke is going to be kicking himself for letting this one slip through his fingers
My very subjective take was that the Russian was stronger and even faster than Luke. Some of the attacks he hit were exceptionally quick and decisive. Luke was great in the scrambles and in defense, often getting out of positions where it looked like the Russian had him dead to rights. The roll through Luke hit for 2 early in the match is a good example of a position where I thought the Russian was the one who would score.
Great experience.
Yeah...agree. Felt like if Luke were losing, he would have definitely scored on those late attacks. To me, he played it a little bit safe, and it cost him in the end.
