Wrestling World Championships 2015

[Soosk]

Total embarrassment. The final 4 weights go tomorrow and Iran got tough draws. Very real possibility Iran doesn't finish with even 1 single gold medal, only 1 who has a good draw and has the talent for gold is Yazdani in 70kg. This is a really pathetic display by our wrestling. I don't think Rio will be a successful Olympic campaign for us. Forget about repeating what we did in London.

[Ab-Gosht]

WOW hasan yazdani is running riots and even overshadowing jordan bouroughs! In my life i have never seen an iranian wrestler like hasan yazdani! Not even palang juybar from same city! Or even hamid sourian or not even ali dabir! hasan is the new star of world wrestling unbelieavble stuff!

[Ab-Gosht]

so update is 2 semis 2 lost in last 8. so far 1 more secured spot in rio. ghasemi lost to jordan so he will have chance to rebound and hadi lost to russian who will face akgul in semi

[Ab-Gosht]

so hadi is out of WC and rio for now. he was ready but lost to bad tactics by himself! Rahimi is in final and beat the russian in semi.

[Ab-Gosht]

unreal stuff by hasan and crushes the marican in semi

[Adesor Vafaseya]

so we have now 2 finslists fighting for 2 Gold and 1 Bronze.
hopefully we get them all.
exciting final day.

[arvin_guzoo]

The boys fought with heart today, and showed great sportsmanship.

[Soosk]

both Yadzdani and rahimi fuck up. Not a single gold medal this world championship. Total embarrassment. Rio wont be pretty.

[Adesor Vafaseya]

overall a good freestyle tournament, with Iran on 2nd spot behind Russia.
youngster Yazdani (20yrs) won silver in his first major tournament.
Karimi and Mohammadi show great promise for future.

overal Iran gained 7 medals combined, 3 Silver 4 Bronze.

I am satisfied specially with the youngesters and also glad khadem gave them a chance to gain experience and collect medals.

Rio will be a great tournament!

[Ab-Gosht]

Rio will be a great tournament!

London was great 3 gold 1 silver 2 bronze. compared to that rio will be explosive fail.

realistic chance for gold will be sourian . rahimi usually finds a way to not win but yes he can do it. small chance for gold will be mohammadi, reza yazdani, hasan yazdani, omid nourozi, akhlaghi, abdevali and ghasem rezaei. so 9 guys who could reach the final but maybe in a very good case 3 of them will and 1 will win gold

[_Navid_]

Poor tournament for Iran. I don't see more than 1 gold (Sourian) for our wrestling teams combined in the olympics!

Our bright light in next year's Olympic will be Taekwondo. I would guarantee 2 gold medals.

[Irannn]

A year ago we didn't have likes of Yazdani jr and Karimi, so who knows what will happen next year.

The Greco team lost because of poor management/coaching, we still have great wrestlers, they could win more medals if they had better coach. there is still chance they hire a better coach for next year, Banna won't come back but I still hope they get one of his assistants.

but in freestyle, I was expecting much more, I think they just out-scouted ! it happens when you compete in too many meaningless competitions specially that silly World Cup in Los Angeles few months ago. I really hope they learn from their mistakes for the next year, we still have a great team.

if nobody gets injured or we don't find any new talent (which is quite possible) our next year Olympic team should be something like this.

57: Rahimi - he deserved gold here but did stupid mistake, not his first time though, still he has a good chance for medal, even gold, but he is aging and will be one year older next year
65: Mohammadi - without any doubt he is our best bet for the gold, he could win the gold here if it wasn't for his own mistake.
74: H. Yazdani - there will be a competition in this weight, but I expect Yazdani to beat everybody here. he showed his talent here but also showed his weaknesses. hard to predict him since he never wrestled at 74 but I believe he has a chance, even good chance but needs more competition with top wrestlers.
86: Karimi - he won the trials narrowly this year over Jokar, since he is 21, he will be better next year and i expect him to win the trials once again, still we have an amazing young talent in this weight in Mojtaba Goleij, he will challenge Karimi, Jokar and Lashgari next year. there is a great wrestler in this weight Sadullaev, but Karimi shows us he is not unbeatable, Karimi (or any other Iranian wrestler) can beat the rest quite easily.
97: Yazdani - Tahan was a terrible choice, they should send Mohammadan instead, 97kg is becoming weaker with Gazyumov and Gadisov aging, even Mohammadian could win the gold this year. even though he does stupid mistakes sometimes, still I believe Reza yazdani is our best wrestler in this weight. nothing is guaranteed but even gold is possible
125: Hadi or Ghasemi - A very disappointing tournament for Hadi. that was our worst match in this tournament. with Ghasemi in poor shape recently we are in trouble in this weight, Hadi is good only in non-serious competitions, but he sucks in major competition beause of his mental weakness, still I believe he is better than Ghasemi.

Greco

59: Sourian - he got robbed here but also did some mistakes, he is still the best and favorite #1, I just hope next year they don't take his energy by forcing him to compete in meaningless local trials.
66: Norouzi - there is no clear favorite in this weight, Noroozi is still a great wrestler and can beat anybody. like Sourian, I just hope they don't make prblem for him inside the country.
75: Abdevali - was expecting more from him. but because of his size, he just can't outmuscle his opponent in this weight. but maybe with one year, when he fits in this weight he will have more chance, he also didn't train well this year because he had problems with the coach. I give him chance for medal, gold almost impossible.
86: Akhlaghi - he was the only wrestler who performed better than my prediction. could win the gold easily if it wasn't for that mistake. he can beat anybody but also he is not unbeatable.
98: Rezaei - he had a great tournament, but that Armenian kid was just great. I don't think Ghasem can beat him but can beat the rest, I expect medal but not gold.
130: ??? - we just suck in this weight, even the qualification is not a sure thing. I still think Babajanzadeh is our best in this weight but even Bashir has no chance for medal unless he gets a dream draw.

[_Navid_]

Great post. Agree with everything.

[Ab-Gosht]

agree thanx good post. just want to add that iman sadeghi is another juybari super talent after hasan yazdani. he won 2 WC juniors. this is his world famous super move

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rE1zOlAQx8

[_Navid_]

^ Yes. He is amazing. I have been following him for a while. Definitely will have a bright future!