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Post by Big Garea Fan on Apr 18, 2024 2:57:38 GMT
The US Olympic Wrestling Team trials are this weekend. I usually don't follow collegiate wrestling but the #1 ranked guy at 184 pounds (Aaron Brooks) is from my hometown so I am rooting for him. He is on the Penn State wrestling team and that team has dominated this season. The NCAA championships were held a couple weeks ago and Penn State had more points than all of the other teams combined.
He is a senior this year so I wonder what his future after collegiate wrestling will hold. WWE? AEW? UFC?
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Post by srossi on Apr 18, 2024 3:01:27 GMT
I don’t follow fake wrestling, only the real stuff with the pros.
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Post by Big Garea Fan on Apr 18, 2024 3:30:40 GMT
I am reading about the Olympic team trials and Brooks is in for quite a challenge...
He will wrestle at 86 kg freestyle and he is ranked #1 in the challenge bracket. Thirteen wrestlers will be competing in that weight class for one spot on the Olympic team. The trials will be held on Friday and Saturday. Since he is ranked #1, he will get a first round bye but...
- He will need to win 3 straight matches on Friday to make it to the finals on Saturday - If he makes it to the finals, he will compete against a returning medalist from the 2023 world championships and gold medalist from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics (David Taylor) who got a bye into the finals
Taylor and Brooks are very familiar with each other as both of them wrestled for Penn State and Brooks was a training partner for Taylor during the Olympics. Taylor defeated Brooks 6-0 and 5-4 in June 2023 to earn a berth on Team USA for the world championships that year.
Taylor is definitely going to have an advantage no matter who he faces in the finals since he will be fresh while his opponent will have competed in at least 3 matches the previous day. If it is anything like the NCAA championships, the wrestlers who compete on Friday are going to be banged up heading into Saturday's finals. Most of the wrestlers at the finals of the NCAA championships looked like wounded soldiers as many of them had knee braces/leg wraps to support their legs and cuts on their faces from head butts in earlier rounds. A number of the matches needed multiple "blood timeouts" as team doctors tried to stop the blood flow of open cuts with bandages, ointments, and topical coagulants.
If anybody plans to watch, the Olympic wrestling team trials will be airing on Peacock on Friday and Saturday. Not sure of the exact time yet.
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Post by KGB on Apr 18, 2024 15:09:09 GMT
I don't follow it but for some reason I've been watching a ton of Vision Quest clips this week.
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Post by Sexy Tom on Apr 18, 2024 16:24:51 GMT
I don't follow amateur wrestling, but Greco-Roman wrestlers aren't anywhere as good as the UFC fighters from Dagestan. Their brand of wrestling hasn't been figured out yet. Khabib has eaten top level wrestlers for breakfast, as has his protege, Islam Mechasomething. This Bo Nikal kid was on the UFC undercard. He's a highly decorated wrestler, and he won by submission. He wasn't as dominant as the Dagestani bunch.
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Post by Sexy Tom on Apr 18, 2024 16:25:28 GMT
I don't follow it but for some reason I've been watching a ton of Vision Quest clips this week. A truly underrated movie from the 80s. Loved it. |
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