Should they cut 79 and 92?

[Shiraz123 485]

Anyone else feel these weights have watered down the product?  6 weights is definitely ridiculously low but maybe 10 is too much? I feel like 8 weights with day before weigh in was a better product. 92kg especially is reducing my excitement for 86kg this year, as a lot of potentially great matches are lost. 

 

Another thing, are they doing 2 day weigh in during the 2020 Olympics with just 6 weights? That seems almost criminal to make these guys do day of weighins two days in a row with only 6 weight classes. 

[tbert 556]

I don't think you will have much support. These weights were the goose that laid the golden egg for america.

[Shiraz123 485]

Talking purely from a product perspective. USA won the team title with 8 weights anyway.  Russia also benefits greatly with 79, they can put Tsablov at 74 and have Gedeuv/Gadzhiamagomedov at 79. 

[nom 621]

10 is perfect. And if I was king it would be mat side weigh in for every match. Take the weight cut crap and get it out of the sport as much as possible.

[steamboat_charlie 727]

Let's cut it to 5.  Then maybe 3.  Eventually we can get to 1--that's the only way to ensure the competition isn't watered down.  

[sgallan 592]

Let's cut it to 5. Then maybe 3. Eventually we can get to 1--that's the only way to ensure the competition isn't watered down.

This

[Billyhoyle 1,658]

It’s not as if this is the first time that we have had 10 weights. I think it is great for worlds, but do like that there are fewer for the Olympics. It will make for more “super matches” between world champions. Ideal would like 7 or 8 Olympic weights though.

[de4856 333]

No, I think that eventually these weights will be filled with superstars like in the other weight classes. And with more weight classes more kids, young men will get a chance to wrestle and participate in this sport. Which hopefully leads to more people becoming involved in our sport. I think it's a win, win.

[maligned 409]

92kg especially is reducing my excitement for 86kg this year, as a lot of potentially great matches are lost. 

 

 

 

Not sure I agree 10 is too many, but I do see your point about the bigger weights. Sadly, UWW feels very married to the 6 Olympic weights and made the 10 fit around that structure in a strange way. Having the lowest weight slightly lower and then spacing better would be ideal. Maybe 8 weights from 55 up to like 88--then only 2 weights bigger than that.

 

You can always adjust in the Olympic year back to 6. There's always a creative solution for the qualification for the 6 weights even if they don't match perfectly at worlds the year before. 

[Abdullahgadzhi Khuzin 1,379]

Anyone else feel these weights have watered down the product?  6 weights is definitely ridiculously low but maybe 10 is too much? I feel like 8 weights with day before weigh in was a better product. 92kg especially is reducing my excitement for 86kg this year, as a lot of potentially great matches are lost. 

 

Another thing, are they doing 2 day weigh in during the 2020 Olympics with just 6 weights? That seems almost criminal to make these guys do day of weighins two days in a row with only 6 weight classes. 

Alas. The wrestling lost its great importance in Olympics. It used to be better! 

[mostTD 23]

6 made it easy for me to recall the lineup for a bunch of countries.  10 was pretty hard to keep track of in my head. 

[stp 483]

It's nice, they now give participation ribbons to (near) Olympic caliber wrestlers.  

[Housebuye 1,750]

It's nice, they now give participation ribbons to (near) Olympic caliber wrestlers.

Are you claiming that the gold medalist from 79kg this year is really getting a participation ribbon? And isn’t good enough to make the Olympics?

[wrestlingnerd 2,301]

Sorry, but this thread deserves to get nuked. The golden years of wrestling had 10 weights and it was the best product the sport ever had and has ever had since then.