Azerbaijan enjoyed a successful opening day of the European Wrestling
Championships after four of their athletes advanced to finals on the
opening day of competition in Budapest.
More than 400 wrestlers are set to compete in this year’s European
Championships but there will be no Russian presence in Hungarian
capital Budapest, opening the door for other nations to enter the
winners circle.
Tokyo Olympic Games - Top men’s freestyle wrestling contenders to win gold
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In a way, the Tokyo Olympics will be the first major wrestling championship event since the World Championships in the summer of 2019. COVID-19 kept several major wrestling powers out of a potential 2020 World Championship, resulting in an unofficial “Individual World Cup” tournament in Serbia, which functioned as Worlds last year. Which means this year’s Olympics will finally let fans see the absolute best collide for the most prestigious prize in all of sports.
USA Men’s Freestyle Olympic Team Trials - 97 kg Preview
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With the USA men’s freestyle Olympic Team Trials coming up this weekend, I’ll be taking a look at the field per each weight class to lay out the title picture. I focused on results from the past two years, as a
lot can change in wrestling over a short period of time.
USA Men’s Freestyle Olympic Team Trials - 97 kg
Like 74 kg, this weight has a “main event” feeling attached to the predicted finals. Olympic champion and four-time World medalist Kyle Snyder will most likely be defending his throne against two-time World champion and Olympic bronze medalist J’den Cox. Once on track to become an all-time great, Snyder has taken some tough losses in the past few years after an all-time career high in 2017. It’s a match with a ton of history, their last meeting was way back in college, with Snyder coming out on top. Many fans are rooting for Cox to make it t