Wrestling Changed My Life Podcast

Team USA Men's Freestyle stays perfect in Astana 🇺🇸 5-0 so far this morning: 🔹 Kyle Dake (86kg) 2-0: beat Naadambat (MGL) 6-5, tech'd Lescauskas (LTU) 13-2 🔹 Wyatt Hendrickson (125kg) 1-0: tech'd No. 3 seed Sharipov (BRN) 11-0! 🔹 Zain Retherford (70kg) 1-0: pinned Abdurachmanov (BEL) in 1:08 🔹 Marcus Blaze (61kg) 1-0: pinned Ormanoglu (TUR) Round of 16 (ET): Hendrickson vs Buheeerdun (CHN) ~4:14am Blaze vs Colesnic (MDA) ~4:31am Dake vs Sakayev (KAZ) ~4:37am Retherford vs Muszukajev (HUN) ~4:46am The men are 12-0 at these Worlds, with Bassett and Snyder in today’s finals!

BO BASSETT IS INTO THE WORLD FINALS! 🇺🇸🔥 He just TECHED Tajikistan's Abdulmazhid Kudiev 12-2 in the 65kg World semifinals! What a senior debut: a 1:13 pin over the #3 seed, a 12-0 tech, a 14-13 thriller over Russia's Abasgadzhi Magomedov, and now a tech in the semis. He goes for World gold Friday at 9 AM ET!

WHAT A MORNING FOR TEAM USA 🇺🇸🔥 Americans went 10-0 overnight in Astana, and 4 of them are into the World semifinals! Kyle Snyder beat Abdulrashid Sadulaev 4-4 on criteria in the quarterfinals! After a 10-0 tech over Turkey's Tokgoz, and the win over Sad, Snyder back into World Semis! Bo Bassett pinned #3 seed Peiman Biabani in 1:13, teched France's Quentin Sticker 12-0, then outlasted Russia's Abasgadzhi Magomedov (WORLD CHAMP) 14-13 in a wild quarterfinal. Everest Leydecker (55kg) and Abigail Nette (59kg) are both 2-0 and into the semis, and Kennedy Blades teched India's Srishti 12-1 to reach a bronze-medal match. SEMIFINALS (ET) 7:30 AM: Leydecker vs. Nagisa Harada (JPN) 7:38 AM: Nette vs. Mariia Vynnyk (UKR) 7:46 AM: Bassett vs. Abdulmazhid Kudiev (TJK) 7:54 AM: Snyder vs. Zbigniew Baranowski (POL) MEDAL MATCHES (ET) 9:00 AM: Precious Wieser vs. Tanu Sharma (IND), bronze 9:20 AM: Cristelle Rodriguez vs. Andreea Ana (ROU), bronze 9:34 AM: Kennedy Blades vs. Delgermaa Enkhsaikhan (MGL), bronze 10:03 AM: Adaugo Nwachukwu vs. Nonoka Ozaki (JPN), GOLD

WORLDS BRACKETS ARE OUT, AND BO BASSETT OPENS TOMORROW AGAINST BIABANI 🇺🇸 Bassett starts at 65kg against Canada's Peiman Biabani, the #3 seed. Biabani has history with the guy Bo beat to make this team: Real Woods beat Biabani 3-1 at Worlds last year, then 3-2 in the Pan American final in May. At 97kg, Kyle Snyder is the #1 seed and opens against the winner of Tokgoz (TUR) and Tumurbaatar (MGL). And look who's in his quad for a potential quarterfinal: Abdulrashid Sadulaev. Two more wins each and it's Snyder vs. Sadulaev in the quarterfinals. 👀 Both weights start tomorrow morning, with the first session at 1:30 AM ET and the semis at 7:30 AM ET. Full brackets are up now on Baschamania.com, in the comments.

Seidel the Savage! A 10-0 tech - his 3rd on the day - in the semis over Moses Mendoza, and he's in the U20/Junior World Finals! He'll wrestle for GOLD tomorrow in the Noon Eastern session.