I really enjoyed the Kyle Dake is the Future of 74kg Era

[HoundedHawk 83]

10 minutes ago, simple said:

Yeah the weakness was Kyle’s muscle mass, o2, and composure

His muscle mass did look less impressive.

[HawkY 112]

Unfortunate as it is. If 2 out of the 4 biggest tournaments in your sport don't have a weight class that you compete in while other weight classes are in all 4, then it does diminish  the prestige of winning in that weight class.

Modern wrestling has been  so tied to the olympics for so long. 

[saiyan 0]

11 minutes ago, KCMO2 said:

O2?  He wasn't out there long enough to gas.

Something looked off, like a bad weight cut or something. Not to take anything away from the Dagestani—he was tough.

Edited August 5, 2021 by saiyan

[mspart 270]

Dake got unraveled.  Hopefully he can come out of that to repechage and regroup.   I'm not a serious Dake fan but I did not expect that.  He got murdered out there.  The lower weight must be hard for him to maintain.  He did not look great in his first match and looked worse the second match. 

mspart

[NJDan 1,073]

1 hour ago, Perry said:

Too soon?

Never too soon to be an a**hole.

[pawrestler 174]

Really tough to watch. Definitely panicked and just imploded but man, not what I expected at all. 

[BigTenFanboy 1,790]

Just when Dake finally wins a fantasy match.. he loses a real one.. life is funny sometimes...

[TobyMcNugget 7]

It's easy to second guess everything after a loss but in hindsight, was it the best idea to bring Yianni as a training partner? Having a larger training partner (like a vaccinated Dean, (dreaming, I know)) would probably have been better for keeping him honest in positions requiring significant power. I have to assume he just has his way with Yianni, especially in the positions he was outclassed in today.

 

[denger 363]

I didn't read it as panic. 

He actively inserted himself in high-risk situations and lost. He could have went more conservative after the first fail and took his time from there, but instead he doubled down. He bet on himself. It wasn't desperation that put him there. 

I wonder what he was communicating at 4:40 in the match. He gestured to the ref for "time", then rubbed the back of his head a little and went back to center. Dake talks to refs regularly, so I doubt it's a thing.

I'd rather believe that he was out performed than bellieve he wasn't all there. 

[SamStall365247 163]

He gave up four and immediately chased the next bad position. Probably hasn’t given up four in a long time and it threw him off. 

[TBar1977 4,532]

6 hours ago, Sheerstress said:

I didn't see the match (in the middle of an online class).  Did the opponent basically find a weakness and exploit?

I think he found out he was 11 points better than Dake. Also better at every exchange.

[wrestlingnerd 3,003]

It's as if he was so focused on beating one guy for most of his career that he forgot how to wrestle anybody else. Unbelievably  bad performance. AS some have said, it was brutal to watch, to say the least. I wonder if he can rebound from this for the worlds and if we'll ever see him at 74 kg again. He looked very sucked out against the Iranian. 

Edited August 5, 2021 by wrestlingnerd

[TBar1977 4,532]

6 hours ago, simple said:

RIP “functional patterns”

That and what was it that he said about sunlight and that other crazy stuff? 

[TBar1977 4,532]

I thought Dake would win gold, but him bombing guys at non Oly weight class did not translate.

[Grecojones 206]

4 minutes ago, wrestlingnerd said:

It's as if he was so focused on beating one guy for most of his career that he forgot how to wrestle anybody else. Unbelievably  bad performance. AS some have said, it was brutal to watch, to say the least. I wonder if he can rebound from this for the worlds and if we'll ever see him at 74 kg again. He looked very sucked out against the Iranian. 

I don’t know man he did best other quality opponents to win two world medals at 79kgs. I think it’s mostly the cut and getting caught off guard. I’m not saying he’d win a rematch. But I believe we saw the worst case scenario of that match up.

[Drew87 349]

Just now, Grecojones said:

I don’t know man he did best other quality opponents to win two world medals at 79kgs. I think it’s mostly the cut and getting caught off guard. I’m not saying he’d win a rematch. But I believe we saw the worst case scenario of that match up.

Also, we as a collective have under-appreciated kadzimahamedov a boatload.  That dude put it on Chamizo.  

[Drew87 349]

Oh snap let’s go amine.

[wrestlingnerd 3,003]

3 minutes ago, Grecojones said:

I don’t know man he did best other quality opponents to win two world medals at 79kgs. I think it’s mostly the cut and getting caught off guard. I’m not saying he’d win a rematch. But I believe we saw the worst case scenario of that match up.

I get it. I meant that's how it felt to watch that match. He looked dazed and confused, lost.

[TBar1977 4,532]

Deepak Chopra with the 2.

[Drew87 349]

f*ck yeah myles, that’s so cool.  what a clutch clutch takedown, that’s way better than an NCAA title.

[Drew87 349]

ok im nervous.