hammerlockthree
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14 hours ago, JBluegill133 said:Not to derail this riveting thread but I saw that RBY and Mueller are now on the ticket....this may be a stupid question but I know i've heard FLO is shelling out some pretty big checks for the competitors....since these two are still in NCAA or at least RBY is (cant remember if muelle graduated already) they couldn't accept these checks correct?
how is this not its own topic.
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So LBJ is:
A)Taylor lying
B) Downey is lying (and contradicting himself and had the most inexplicable loss of weight in human history) and banking on Flo backing him up again?
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7 minutes ago, balanceseeker said:I already acknowledged in a prior post that Taylor had a superior freestyle career and was responding to the statement that Logan Stieber "wasn't very successful at the senior level".
Semantics
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thanks i guess
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47 minutes ago, tec87 said:Bekzhod Abdurakhmonov was Rd12,2nd getting destroyed by Taylor in the finals but has since won 2 world bronzes and finished 5th at the 2016 Olympics after he beat Burroughs. So not the best win based on NCAA results but a damn good international resume.
never made the finals
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1 minute ago, Yellow_Medal said:
Do I have to have been?Nope. I stand corrected.
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25 minutes ago, balanceseeker said:I had already said that I believed Taylor had the superior freestyle career so I wasn't piggybacking on you. You said a guy who won a world title wasn't successful when this is the epitome of success in the sport. That is not a semantic argument it is a false statement presumably meant to diminish the accomplishments of Stieber.
Why are you making false statements meant to diminish the accomplishments of Stieber?
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Thats a great argument, you're just not responding to anyone.
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Just now, balanceseeker said:He won a world title so I think that qualifies as very successful. A agree that Taylor is definitely more dynamic in his attacks.
So you won a semantic argument and then piggy backed me on the actual argument.
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I think Stieber was too predictable to be very successful at the senior level. Thats the defining difference between the two i think.
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3 minutes ago, buck said:Going from Stanford to Ohio State makes zero sense.
No one knows whether you are making a stupid joke about mckenna or actually think thats true.
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Greatest post ever.
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15 minutes ago, VakAttack said:St. John, probably.
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Fittery majored St. John immediately after getting beat badly by Taylor.
Obviously St. John got a title eventually, but we can do the side by side comparison when they actually wrestled Taylor.
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Well Taylor has more compelling narratives. The shocking loss to Bubba and "rivalry" with Dake were insanely dramatic moments, and as you said way more digestible than winning a NCAA title so ugly it inspired a rule change immediately.
Another comparison, we still hear as much or more about Mark Perry as we do about Stieber, and the only reason is that his story had just about everything you could imagine packed into it. Was he in any way comparable to Stieber as a wrestler? No but he had a better narrative.
We hear 10x as much about Downey as Stieber, and they aren't even in the same universe as wrestlers.
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Its a good question.
Taylor had the added appeal of dominating while looking like a 13 year old boy half his career, where as Stieber was often complimented (dismissively) for his freakish strength.
Taylor had a much more dynamic style, it seemed like you never knew what he was gonna pull out, meanwhile Stieber just fired off lefty off his lefty sweep/low double combo and no one could stop it.
Fair or not, stiebers off year world title does not have anywhere near the luster of Taylors title at an olympic weight. Stieber also got completely clowned several times at the senior level which is hard to imagine happening to taylor.
In my mind the wins over Yazdani Chariti are what put Taylors career on another level.
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You are still butthurt that I pointed out Flo is lying or incompetent on an issue?
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Taylors was boring...Dakes was good.
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Anyone else here there RTC i gonna get another big pick up soon?
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I don't think Pyles brings a lot of controversy or insight...he basically tried to talk Downey out of accusing Taylor of being on PEDS...which is the only thing that makes the match interesting.
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You're too stupid to work a website....
Darrin Caldwell is back
in College Wrestling
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No one would care if not for the bizarre physical matchup...which interests me intensely.