Zain Question And Brief, Cool Story

[bourbon n blues]

So yesterday I was form 1 ing a bunch of short barrel rifle pistol things( long story but it's saving a $200 tax stamp) and mentioned Zain Retherford to the young guy handling my paperwork.

I was watching some highlights of him wrestling before I went to the gun shop, and was trying to find the semifinal when he had over Brandon Sorenson in the 2017 tournament.

Maybe you guys could post a link for that match?

The young guy waiting on me mention he wrestled Zain Retherford when he was in school. I asked him if he got pin. Where did the tech fall you? He just laughed and said it was only practice, Zehner was a senior, and he was an eighth grade.

The poor bastard was his practice dummy for like two hours he said. Of course, I had to ask him if he was very good, and he just laughed and said, yeah, really good. He couldn't do a darn thing against him, imagine that? However, he did say he's one of the nicest guys he ever met.

Obviously, a fierce competitor, but a real decent person off the mat. Nothing that everyone here doesn't know already but I thought I'd just mention it.

 

[liex26]

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[Split shot]

So yesterday I was form 1 ing a bunch of short barrel rifle pistol things( long story but it's saving a $200 tax stamp) and mentioned Zain Retherford to the young guy handling my paperwork.

I was watching some highlights of him wrestling before I went to the gun shop, and was trying to find the semifinal when he had over Brandon Sorenson in the 2017 tournament.

Maybe you guys could post a link for that match?

The young guy waiting on me mention he wrestled Zain Retherford when he was in school. I asked him if he got pin. Where did the tech fall you? He just laughed and said it was only practice, Zehner was a senior, and he was an eighth grade.

The poor bastard was his practice dummy for like two hours he said. Of course, I had to ask him if he was very good, and he just laughed and said, yeah, really good. He couldn't do a darn thing against them, imagine that? However, he did say he's one of the nicest guys he ever met.

Obviously, a fierce competitor, but a real decent person off the mat. Nothing that everyone here doesn't know already but I thought I'd just mention it.

I wonder if he felt anything like Malik Amine felt when he wrestled Zain for two hours. Oh wait, it was for only 6 and a half minutes, it only seemed like two hours to Malik!!

 

[nerfstate]

...was trying to find the semifinal when he had over Brandon Sorenson in the 2017 tournament.

Maybe you guys could post a link for that match?

Shoutout once again to @psudotedu, and also to the pinned threads no-one ever thinks to look at.

Yeah. Which Zain vs Sorensen? -- the 2017 semi where Zain pinned him?

Mayes vs Zain
Bo vs Dudley

 

[Chickenman Testa]

Shoutout once again to @psudotedu, and also to the pinned threads no-one ever thinks to look at.

A rare show of emotion from Zain after that pin. He jump started the wreckage that was to come from our murderers row the rest of that tournament

 

[bourbon n blues]

I wonder if he felt anything like Malik Amine felt when he wrestled Zain for two hours. Oh wait, it was for only 6 and a half minutes, it only seemed like two hours to Malik!!

The kid is a good kid and said great things about Zain. He just treated him like a practice dummy lol.

 

[creamery freak]

Shoutout once again to @psudotedu, and also to the pinned threads no-one ever thinks to look at.

Thanks to psudotedu and you for posting the Bo/Dudley match. I thought it was owned by the Flo police!

I told this story before, but at the wrestling banquet that year, I was able to talk too Bo. I asked him if he gave up the easy reversal to Dudley purposely so he could cradle him up? Bo with a little grinn says yes I did. I thought that was pretty cool!

 

[Cstroke]

Man is it tough not to miss those guys.

 

[Conewago]

Speaking of Sorensen v Retherford, I talked to Zain's Dad once. He said the reason Zain was slow on the start against Sorensen in their one close, OT match at Carver was because Zain had a "bad descent plan" that week.

Of course, we know what Spencer would say about excuses...

 

[Conewago]

A rare show of emotion from Zain after that pin. He jump started the wreckage that was to come from our murderers row the rest of that tournament

His brutal semi pin of Sorensen was the same season as the freakish OT win at Iowa. I wouldn't be surprised if Zain really wanted to prove a point.

 

[Psalm 1 guy]

Speaking of Sorensen v Retherford, I talked to Zain's Dad once. He said the reason Zain was slow on the start against Sorensen in their one close, OT match at Carver was because Zain had a "bad descent plan" that week.

Of course, we know what Spencer would say about excuses...

"Descent plan"? Maybe that was my problem as a wrestler? I had no plan at all. My sophomore year in high school I weighed in on a Monday at 154 1/2 and made 136 Thursday afternoon for a dual only to get bumped from starting that week. That was the only time I ever skipped school, and that was with the permission of my mother so I could run most the day to make weight!

 

[Chickenman Testa]

His brutal semi pin of Sorensen was the same season as the freakish OT win at Iowa. I wouldn't be surprised if Zain really wanted to prove a point.

Yup, so much for the “closing the gap” arguments Iowa fans were making

 

[nitlion6]

Yup, so much for the “closing the gap” arguments Iowa fans were making

There is a closing of the gap. Iowa State is getting closer and closer to claiming their pre-Gable spot in the Iowa wrestling hierarchy. At the top.

 

[tullfan68]

I wonder if he felt anything like Malik Amine felt when he wrestled Zain for two hours. Oh wait, it was for only 6 and a half minutes, it only seemed like two hours to Malik!!

didnt Malik need a face transplant after that Zain match??