'25 Senior World Championships, Sep. 13-21

WEAREPSU_LI

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It's so frustrating that Tom insists on pasting so much twitter takery here, where we're not allowed to use the Ignore function b/c he's on On3 outlet staff.

Tweets that have wrestling videos I get.

Tweets that have wrestling interviews I even get, although it still turns this place into Twitter JV, where we're unable to curate our own feed like on Twitter Varsity.

But Lobdell Nomad offers neither, and our only choices to avoid reading him are to avoid reading this whole site.
I said this earlier, when we first migrated over. It's far too much in my opinion.
 

Nitlion1986

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Spencer is a PA guy and the US rep so I’m going to cheer for him in every match. That being said, I can find a bit of consolation in the fact that there won’t be a returning world medalist sitting in the finals of Final X next year, which may help improve Lightning Luke’s chances of taking the spot. Does that make me a bad person?
No "badder" than the rest of us.
I am even worse because I way more wanted to see RBY have the medal shot than Spencer.
 
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zzs006

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Uguev is a beast. Absolutely dominated everyone this tournament. He was really really impressive
 
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Nitlion1986

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I think he stuck around the HWC to long. Cael or David probably would have been better to prepare him. I think his training partners may have been better.
That is a statement that needs no "might have". He would be so farther ahead if he had called Cael when Tom moved to Stillwater, or if he had moved to Stillwater when Tom moved back to Happy Valley.
 

Dogwelder

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Bob’s reaction: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!

 

nerfstate

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A singlet pull should be an automatic caution & 1. I’m not sure if that last caution was fleeing or not. But then there was the series of somersaults that was overturned as all red’s points. There were 3 exposures in that sequence, not two. Somehow they only ended up giving Jax’s opponent 4 when I think it should have been 6.
 

vhsalum1

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A singlet pull should be an automatic caution & 1. I’m not sure if that last caution was fleeing or not. But then there was the series of somersaults that was overturned as all red’s points. There were 3 exposures in that sequence, not two. Somehow they only ended up giving Jax’s opponent 4 when I think it should have been 6.
They gave him 6.

he was down 8-3 at the start of that scramble

Jax should have turned down after the 1st exposure
 
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vhsalum1

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Zahid looked so good. Not a fan but I have to give him props. He has reached a new level at Okie State. This was one of the most dominant world championship performances I’ve seen in awhile. Right up there with Ono’s last year
An unbelievable run.

it’s Z far ahead of the rest of the world. Greatest competition is going to come from Dake/Carter
 
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nerfstate

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Dake was screwed when Father Time rang his doorbell earlier this year. He's still a great wrestler but needs to retire soon. He's not going to get better at this point, and the money needs to go to a younger group of guys. Many will boo this comment but it's the facts of life.
I dunno. Point taken, but he still wrestled the world champ better than anyone in the field.
 

vhsalum1

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Dake was screwed when Father Time rang his doorbell earlier this year. He's still a great wrestler but needs to retire soon. He's not going to get better at this point, and the money needs to go to a younger group of guys. Many will boo this comment but it's the facts of life.

he finished 2 on the ladder. He doesn’t need to retire soon.

also, let’s normalize guys staying around as long as they want to. And don’t worry about his pay - it will be commensurate with his success.
 

mcpat

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That's strange because a couple of weeks ago Bob was over there thumping his chest that the HWC was as good as any because they had the only world silver medalist in the US. It seemed that all was ok in terms of Iowa and international wrestling according to Bob.
Now it’s Cowboys RTC and NLWC have many multiples of $$$ to pay athletes as compared to HWC. When did Iowa wrestling became so donor and bank account challenged?
 

El_Jefe

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Dake was screwed when Father Time rang his doorbell earlier this year. He's still a great wrestler but needs to retire soon. He's not going to get better at this point, and the money needs to go to a younger group of guys. Many will boo this comment but it's the facts of life.
Doubt Cael is so concerned about finding money for the younger guys.
 

PennState1985

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Doubt Cael is so concerned about finding money for the younger guys.
Then he should be concerned about wasting money on guys who are not going to be Olympic champions. Like I said, an unpopular opinion, but Dake is past his prime. It's called realism.