kkiane Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Club World Cup final tomorrow, Bank Shahr vs Russia. Bank Shahr team is unbelievably stacked with seemingly the likes of Atri Emami Savadkouhi Yazdani Ghasempour Mohammadian and both Zare and Masoumi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkiane Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 Bank Shahr win the final 6-4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Genius Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 4 hours ago, kkiane said: Bank Shahr win the final 6-4 Any interesting matches? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrestfan Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 1 hour ago, The Genius said: Any interesting matches? probably Emami beating Bizhoev 3-1. or Mohammadnejad-Javan beating Gamzatov 9-5 Mohammadian once again found a way to lose a match, this time to Kurbanov 4-1. Atri and Savadkouhi also lost winnable matches. The Genius 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Genius Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 4 hours ago, wrestfan said: probably Emami beating Bizhoev 3-1. or Mohammadnejad-Javan beating Gamzatov 9-5 Mohammadian once again found a way to lose a match, this time to Kurbanov 4-1. Atri and Savadkouhi also lost winnable matches. Thanks. Emami continues his impressive run (Nolf loss aside). Did Mohammadian have a new excuse for this loss? He is running out of excuses to explain the obvious: he is not that good now. Savadkouhi's inconsistency is very annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Genius Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Dalkhani beats Ciobanu 4-0 in the QF. Controlled performance, never in trouble. Hopefully he faces Abuladze (2022 Worlds Silver) in the final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Genius Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 I don't see Mirzazadeh or Kayaalp on the UWW website under 130kg for some reason, did they withdraw or am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkiane Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 11 minutes ago, The Genius said: I don't see Mirzazadeh or Kayaalp on the UWW website under 130kg for some reason, did they withdraw or am I missing something? I noticed that as well but I haven’t seen any news regarding it. Mirzazadeh did a whole interview leading up to the event. Strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Genius Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 (edited) Saravi defeats Tamas Levai (2022 World Bronze) 5-2 and is in the SF. Dalkhani beats a Kazakh 2-1 and makes the final. Good to see two of our world champions back and firing on all cylinders. Edited February 23, 2023 by The Genius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkiane Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Saravi gets hit in the face and they give the other guy two points? What’s going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Genius Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 (edited) In a rematch of their 2021 worlds final match (which Dalkhani won 5-4), Dalkhani defeats Abuladze 8-7 to win Gold here. Another dramatic match between these two. Dalkhani led 5-0 after the first period then found himself 7-5 down after being gut wrenched three times in a row from parterre, but he found a push out and TD in the last 10 seconds to get the victory. Dalkhani is clearly a top 3 guy at 63kg and strong contender for Gold. One of our best young talents (I think he is 25). Our GR team is full of talent at the lower and upper weights, but very weak around the middle (72-87kg). Edited February 23, 2023 by The Genius kkiane 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Genius Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 @wrestfanany idea what happened to Kayaalp and Mirzazadeh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkiane Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 Anyone got any idea why MR Geraei is up at 72? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Genius Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 I don't understand why (or what) they challenged after Geraei was close to being pinned for about 20 seconds (lost challenge) but he showed levels in the second period and won easily. He will wrestle Abuladze in the SF (should be easy) then hopefully Zoidze in the final (should be a great test). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Genius Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 1 minute ago, kkiane said: Anyone got any idea why MR Geraei is up at 72? He has even wrestled at 77kg before, I guess he prefers to wrestle at 72kg during the year then cut to 67kg for Worlds/Olympics. For example he wrestled at 72kg at the Bolat Cup in 2022 before going back down to 67kg at Worlds. kkiane 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkiane Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 Damn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Genius Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 (edited) Geraei just got destroyed 8-0 in just over 60 seconds by Georgia's #2 guy who has never medalled in any tournament of note. Geraei continues his tradition of making stupid challenges and obviously losing them. Once he lost the challenge he seemed to rush and got caught out for another 4 points. Not very icey of him. Fortunately he can only face one Georgian at worlds (probably Zoidze) but this was quite worrying. His chances of winning more Gold at Worlds/Olympics seem slim if he has to get through the Kazakh that is 4-0 against him and Georgia (Zoidze or this guy) to get there. Edited February 24, 2023 by The Genius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkiane Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 4 minutes ago, The Genius said: Geraei just got destroyed 8-0 in just over 60 seconds by Georgia's #2 guy who has never medalled in any tournament of note. Geraei continues his tradition of making stupid challenges and obviously losing them. Once he lost the challenge he seemed to rush and got caught out for another 4 points. Not very icey of him. Fortunately he can only face one Georgian at worlds (probably Zoidze) but this was quite worrying. His chances of winning more Gold at Worlds/Olympics seem slim if he has to get through the Kazakh that is 4-0 against Geraei and Georgia (Zoidze or this guy) to get there. I’d prefer it to happen here than at the world champs. He needed this in my opinion, he needs to be brought back down. If he can get back to 2021 form our first 4 weights are looking very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Genius Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 26 minutes ago, kkiane said: I’d prefer it to happen here than at the world champs. He needed this in my opinion, he needs to be brought back down. If he can get back to 2021 form our first 4 weights are looking very interesting. I don't think there is ever a good time to be destroyed like that by a nobody (no disrespect intended). Luckily we have a lot of talent around 60-67kg so I am sure we can find someone to replace him after Paris (if he doesn't return to form). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkiane Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Firouzpour disappoints again, he’s not ready for 97, but he has age on his side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irani Posted February 25, 2023 Author Share Posted February 25, 2023 5 hours ago, kkiane said: Firouzpour disappoints again, he’s not ready for 97, but he has age on his side. I just can't see him overtaking Azarpira who is also young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Genius Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 (edited) Firouzpour lost to Baran 6-4. Unfortunately he has lost many times recently. I think we can rule him out of contention for Paris. Which leaves Goleij, Mohammadian, Ghasempour and Azarpira at 97kg. All four have lost to Snyder in the last few years. Goleij had the closest match and is arguably the best choice for a medal. Mohammadian is the only one of the four to have defeated Snyder but that was a while ago and I don't think we should give him a third chance to disappoint us and come up with a new excuse; 2019 Mohammadian isn't coming back. Ghasempour is the most talented wrestler but his loss was quite decisive, although he wasn't supposed to wrestle Snyder and has 18 months to adapt. Azarpira's loss was also decisive but he is young and managed to keep it close. Mohammadian is unreliable, I am not sure Ghasempour is big enough or if Azarpira has enough time to close the gap. I think it should/will be Goleij, although Mohammadian tends to beat him which complicates things. Hopefully Ghasempour/Azarpira surprise us, otherwise I am happy with Goleij to bring us home at least a Bronze. Edited February 25, 2023 by The Genius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkiane Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 Iranian at 61 one of the most entertaining wrestlers I’ve seen. Concedes loads and scores even more. Let’s see how far he can go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uwwdoc Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 This Yasin Rezaei has the most offense/little defense ratio I've seen in an Iranian wrestler in awhile. Entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkiane Posted February 26, 2023 Share Posted February 26, 2023 Just now, Uwwdoc said: This Yasin Rezaei has the most offense/little defense ratio I've seen in an Iranian wrestler in awhile. Entertaining. Apparently he’s only 21 so he has potential no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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