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Stay positive and love your life! 311 fan, wrestling coach, St. Louis sports fan, overall wrestling junkie

St. Louis, MO
Joined April 2010
Bo Bassett only made the world finals because he’s 19
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Are the Cowboys ducking the All Star dual? Is DT making a statement here? Did Cael tell them they can't come? Are we making too big a deal of all this? Maybe, but who cares, it's freaking wrestling season!!
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🚨 WRESTLING COMMUNITY: WE NEED YOUR HELP 🚨 Trackwrestling plans to retire its Legacy Events Classic View next month and redirect fans to FloWrestling. We are asking them to RECONSIDER and KEEP CLASSIC VIEW AVAILABLE! If you agree: ✅ REPOST this ✅ Reply “KEEP CLASSIC VIEW” ✅ Tag @trackwrestling and @FloWrestling Classic View has been an invaluable resource for wrestlers, coaches, fans, media members and historians. Removing it would eliminate one of the easiest and most useful ways to access brackets, results and historical tournament information. I enjoy the easy to read brackets, along with the easy statistics to pull such as individual team pts, falls, techs, etc. Modernizing Trackwrestling shouldn’t require eliminating a feature the wrestling community still relies on. Let’s make our voices heard: #KeepTrackClassic
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When it’s hot, get into referees position?
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Can’t believe McGregor sang to @SpeyWrestle
McGregor started singing mid presser 😭 Classic Conor 😂
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Junior year, 2005 at CBC in their brand new building. Mark Rolwes takes me down in the first period. Doesn’t matter. Second period, he takes bottom and I stick him to win the dual and conference title. So freaking cool. And 100% agree @MarkSBader, wrestling’s awesome!!
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Is it normal to rewatch and critique your own matches at Masters from over a year ago?
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Which was a better late match sequence at NCAAs? Van Ness vs Swiderski in the quarters this year, or Robb vs Teemer in the consi semis in 2022?
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Man I love wrestling. A new high school rule came out this morning, and I’m already debating it with other coaches
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*Imagine* walking into practice today and hearing NCAA’s are cancelled. Time flies.
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Jax Forrest. He’s good
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Genuine question: Has ducking an opponent ever truly worked in the long run?
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Kade Moore isn't listed as a probable for Mizzou tonight, but... could we still see him vs Jax tonight?
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I know the National Duals aren’t done yet, but I want to preemptively thank the rankers for their upcoming work!!
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I understand it can be tough to make weight, but seriously, when high school wrestlers can make weight multiple times a week for months at a time, there's a serious problem with these "professionals" constantly missing weight
I did my part, but my opponent didn’t do his. I was called on short notice, traveled, dealt with jet lag and made weight. My opponent was at home, had 3 more hours to try and chose not to. I really would like to fight on the UFC Rio card. I’ll face anyone who makes weight @ufc
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If you miss weight in the UFC, you should forfeit 100% of your purse and be forced to go up a weight class. How it is possible that THOUSANDS of hs and college wrestlers make weight weekly in the winter, but "professionals" struggle to do this 3 times a year?
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I have a confession to make. I’m not proud of it, but… I was at the 2025 NCAAs and left the finals after 197 🤦‍♂️
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Random thought: there are plenty of wrestlers and coaches out there who have lost matches and meets on questionable calls, but somehow, there are very few who have ever benefitted from these same calls
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Spencer-DeSanto and Gilman-Clark are some TOUGH dudes to start off a dual
Who is the best 1-2 punch in college wrestling history?
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Almost as tough as Bassett-Morley back in the day!
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