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3-3 win on criteria over Emami. Scored an early step out, added a takedown in the second and then backed up a ton but held on.
Nolf may not be as fun as he once was but it’s hard to argue with the results.
He has become a really good defensive wrestler. He used to give up tds because he knew he would just outscore you but that style doesn’t really work at this level. Still has a pretty high attack rate but picks his spots much better now. This is a really big win for Nolf. Emami won bronze at worlds last year only losing to Dake 3-1. Impressive tournament
Hall and Zahid both take bronze at 86kg. Nice job holding on by Hall.
Correct. Entirely sacrificed his success to help his brother. Said he was only coming back to help his brother win a championship and if it meant going up two weight classes to be his training partner then so be it. Great, emotional interviews during the NCAA tournament.
Exciting Nolf got teched by Dake in minutes.
Well yeah, that was back when Dake was 32 and had old man strength. My money is on Nolf next time, now that Dake is only 17.
I just watched the 86 kg. final w/ Yazdani and Ishiguro from Japan. Ishiguro had a great tournamment, but lost 13-2 to Yazdani, giving up 13 straight points after getting the first takedown. Yazdani picked him apart from his left under hook position, like he does to almost everyone not named Taylor. I posted this back in September . . . "Since the 2016 Olympics Yazdani is 52-4 with four Olympic and World titles. All of his losses during that span were to Taylor. Here is the breakdown for Yazdani:
2016-Olympic champion
2017-World champion
2018-Lost to Taylor in the opening round of the World Championships and ended up taking third
2019-World champion (Taylor was injured and did not compete)
2021 Lost to Taylor at the Olympics to take second
2021 World champion-beat Taylor
2022-Lost to Taylor at the World Championships to take second
Were it not for Taylor, Yazdani would most likely be undefeated during that span, winning seven straight Olympic and World titles at the young age of 27. I wonder if Yazdani sees Taylor in his nightmares?
2016-Olympic champion
2017-World champion
2018-Lost to Taylor in the opening round of the World Championships and ended up taking third
2019-World champion (Taylor was injured and did not compete)
2021 Lost to Taylor at the Olympics to take second
2021 World champion-beat Taylor
2022-Lost to Taylor at the World Championships to take second
Were it not for Taylor, Yazdani would most likely be undefeated during that span, winning seven straight Olympic and World titles at the young age of 27. I wonder if Yazdani sees Taylor in his nightmares?
Muszukajev literally just played with Lee. You should watch the video. It’s something else. Crazy how good he is but you know he can barely stand after a couple minutes. Not sure about Lee’s strategy there. Good win over Seabass.
In that world then Bo stays in wrestling and I think he would get to Yazdani after a couple tries.
The crazy thing is that a lot of people were picking Zahid to pick off Taylor at Final X this year. Taylor played with his food in match 1 and then crushed Zahid in match 2. And, it seems people are rapidly forgetting that Bo, quite literally, spanked Zahid at OTTs.
The next 86 king is in our room.
He would eventually deck him. May take a few matches but he was probably the most dangerous wrestler I’ve seen. No disrespect to Spencer he is in discussion but nowhere near the competition
Snyder is such a beast. Goes down 4-2 against Magomedov and then just wore his ass out. Wins 7-4 and Magomedov couldn’t move at the end of the match. Didn’t attempt a single attack in the last 30 seconds. Magomedov won bronze at 2022 worlds and Kyle beat him 4-0 there
Kollin Moore beats Nurmagomedov 8-3 who was world bronze last year. Cox beat him 3-0 at worlds. Big win and shows Moore might fill in nicely at 92kg when J’Den goes up to 97kg
Snyder 12-1 tech over Ishiguro and into the semis
Chance comes back to win 6-4 with 2 tds in the last 30 seconds
Chance comes back to win 6-4 with 2 tds in the last 30 seconds
Snyder on mat A in 2 mins.
Snyder up 9-0 at the break.
And that's it. 10-0.
Snyder up 9-0 at the break.
And that's it. 10-0.
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Snyder vs Azapira from Iran in the final. Azapira is U23 world champ and depending on what Ghasempour does is probably the favorite to represent Iran at 97kg
It’s pretty crazy just how far ahead DT and Yazdani are from the field at 86kg. Mark Hall had a really good tournament beating Makoev and Abubakr but Yazdani just toyed with him in a 10-0 first period tech. Zahid got teched 11-0 by Ishiguro from Japan who then turned around and got teched in the finals by Yazdani. I don’t think there is another weight in the world where the top 2 guys have separated themselves from the field like DT and Yazdani have. Russia is the obvious wildcard but before they were banned their top guys weren’t beating DT and Yazdani either.
i still don't think he's close to dake, but nolf has done a great job of steadily improving and retooling his style over the past few years.
Not close? Nolf had the only takedown in their last match if I recall correctly
lots of guys have been close to dake on the scoreboard. not close in the sense i think dake wins 10/10 times if they wrestle.
If one guy gets the only takedown in the match and you don't think that's "close" then I don't know what is
Please see the Iowa-PSU thread where it was explained to us why takedowns aren’t important 😉
Ehhh, I gotta back JS in this one. Dake never appeared in actual danger in that match. Not really a knock on Jason but just sort it where Dake is at right now. Think Nolf would do well to try to work on his explosiveness because the difference between the two in that sense is sometimes startling.
You are showing your takedown obsession.
I think Nolf takes 2 of 10 from Dake right now but he keeps closing the gap every time out it seems. He went from getting teched like it was nothing to 2 fairly tight matches last year. Now he just beat last year’s world bronze who beat Salkazanov 5-0 in the same tournament. Nolf seems to have established himself as a top 5 guy in the world at 74kg. Dake is either 1 or 2 in the world though depending on Sidakov and Nolf isn’t quite ready to take his crown but if he continues on this trajectory he’s going to make things very interesting next year at the Olympic trials
i explained pretty clearly. i think dake wins that match 10/10 times.
despite scoring the only takedown of the series, nolf only led dake for a combined 15 seconds across 2 matches, roughly 2% of the total time wrestled. there was never a moment where dake was in danger of losing.
To be fair, Vespa scored the only takedown against Spencer. But it was not close!
You’re not on the island alone. I view Dake like I view Michael Myers from Halloween. The dude needs to be buried 100 feet under before I declare him vulnerable.
And I need to be consistent with my general cynicism about people “closing gaps” despite holding Nolf in the highest regard.
Kollin Moore and Kyle Snyder both take gold. Moore had two beautiful high-cs and won 4-3.
Snyder was the more active but somehow found himself on the clock in the second period up only 1-0, and managed to get a step-out as time was winding down, then added another step out to win 3-0.
Snyder was the more active but somehow found himself on the clock in the second period up only 1-0, and managed to get a step-out as time was winding down, then added another step out to win 3-0.
Your posts are a lot better than mine, but I use more exclamation points.
Snyder did his thing, but Azapira was tough--did not move from center, had the quickness to avoid Kyle's improved ankle picks, did not crumple under Kyle's famously heavy hands. Also did not really attempt to score--but he's going to be a name to remember in the years to come, I think.
