Anthony Valencia HEW?

[Jimmy Cinnabon 411]

What's is up with him this year?  He was the #1 overall recruit coming out of high school, 3x California state champ, 4x PAC-12 champ, All American in 2021.

Yet this year he's taken 4 losses already, getting majored by Wick and pinned by O'Toole.  His trajectory seems to be on a decline....is he injured or is it HEW?

It's notable he graduated high school in 2015 and I think he was old for his graduating class... I think he may be 25 years old already.

[lu_alum 920]

Not HEW, he's probably more focused on representing Mexico.

[D3UC157 163]

Umm are you confusing Anthony for Zahid because Anthony has been on the HEW train since arrival.

Decline from: 1 time AA, 8th place?

[JerryCallo 94]

HEW?  OK - I will bite - what does that mean?

 

[Wrestleknownothing 1,501]

43 minutes ago, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

What's is up with him this year?  He was the #1 overall recruit coming out of high school, 3x California state champ, 4x PAC-12 champ, All American in 2021.

Yet this year he's taken 4 losses already, getting majored by Wick and pinned by O'Toole.  His trajectory seems to be on a decline....is he injured or is it HEW?

It's notable he graduated high school in 2015 and I think he was old for his graduating class... I think he may be 25 years old already.

God, how I hate these kind of threads. The passive invitation to bash a kid for not living up to your lofty ideals.

[Jimmy Cinnabon 411]

2 minutes ago, JerryCallo said:

HEW?  OK - I will bite - what does that mean?

 

You must be new here.  HEW = Had Enough Wrestling.  In other words, burned out.

[Wrestleknownothing 1,501]

1 hour ago, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

What's is up with him this year?  He was the #1 overall recruit coming out of high school, 3x California state champ, 4x PAC-12 champ, All American in 2021.

Yet this year he's taken 4 losses already, getting majored by Wick and pinned by O'Toole.  His trajectory seems to be on a decline....is he injured or is it HEW?

It's notable he graduated high school in 2015 and I think he was old for his graduating class... I think he may be 25 years old already.

Another thought.

Anthony Valencia, even after 4 loses this year, is better at wrestling than I will ever be at anything.

I am pretty sure the same is true for you.

[manatree 15]

1 minute ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Another thought.

Anthony Valencia, even after 4 loses this year, is better at wrestling than I will ever be at anything.

I am pretty sure the same is true for you.

I'm undefeated at sleeping.

[Wrestleknownothing 1,501]

25 minutes ago, manatree said:

I'm undefeated at sleeping.

I'm adding you to the list of people who are better at something than I will ever be at anything.

[ShakaAloha 426]

32 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Another thought.

Anthony Valencia, even after 4 loses this year, is better at wrestling than I will ever be at anything.

I am pretty sure the same is true for you.

I would say this is true for the majority of us posting here.

[TheHeel 69]

1 hour ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

God, how I hate these kind of threads. The passive invitation to bash a kid for not living up to your lofty ideals.

D1 wrestling is as big time as our sport gets. Fans are entitled to say whatever is in their hearts. Let the man speak. 

[Wrestleknownothing 1,501]

4 minutes ago, ShakaAloha said:

I would say this is true for the majority of us posting here.

Amen.

I guess this post put me on tilt a bit because the intent is so malignant. It really bothers me.

I get that this guy has a shtick. He likes to stir the pot and do things like propose wild bets, then redefine the terms to back out just to see the reactions he can get. So what. Harmless fun. But this kind of post is just shi**y.

[Wrestleknownothing 1,501]

1 minute ago, TheHeel said:

D1 wrestling is as big time as our sport gets. Fans are entitled to say whatever is in their hearts. Let the man speak. 

I am not stopping him from speaking, just pointing out how shi**y his speech is.

[Bardamu911 89]

2 hours ago, lu_alum said:

Not HEW, he's probably more focused on representing Mexico.

 

Edited February 25 by Bardamu911

[ironmonkey 157]

2 hours ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

God, how I hate these kind of threads. The passive invitation to bash a kid for not living up to your lofty ideals.

 

I think it is more about the fans that proclaim it his year each year than the athlete.  

 

[fadzaev2 545]

2 hours ago, Jimmy Cinnabon said:

You must be new here.  HEW = Had Enough Wrestling.  In other words, burned out.

I'm not new here, but I don't read all the threads, and I didn't know what it meant either!  (60 years in the sport too)

[Elevator 307]

2 hours ago, ShakaAloha said:

I would say this is true for the majority of us posting here.

I'm in!

[Katie 1,076]

Since high school, he's probably spent relatively modest amounts of his own money -- while obtaining multiple degrees, collecting a ton of cool experiences, making a bunch of friends, and earning All America honors.  Pretty glorious if you ask me.

Edited February 25 by Katie

[hammerlockthree 2,635]

6 minutes ago, Katie said:

Since high school, he's probably spent relatively modest amounts of his own money -- while obtaining multiple degrees, collecting a ton of cool experiences, making a bunch of friends, and earning All America honors.  Pretty glorious if you ask me.

except for all the embarassing losses while wrestling.

[BoilerUp$ 7]

Its not like he's getting embarrassed out there, he lost to some good guys.

[Katie 1,076]

57 minutes ago, hammerlockthree said:

except for all the embarassing losses while wrestling.

Despite having lost college wrestling matches, he’s already a D1 All American with an A+ life.  I’m sure he’ll be fine. 

Edited February 25 by Katie

[hammerlockthree 2,635]

9 minutes ago, Katie said:

Despite having lost college wrestling matches, he’s already a D1 All American with an A+ life.  I’m sure he’ll be fine. 

sorry i didn't know i was arguiing with someone who could grade peoples lives.

[lu_alum 920]

Despite having lost college wrestling matches, he’s already a D1 All American with an A+ life.  I’m sure he’ll be fine. 

and it took a watered-down tourney for him to “earn” AA honors by placing 8th.


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[Sstern 190]

6 hours ago, Katie said:

Despite having lost college wrestling matches, he’s already a D1 All American with an A+ life.  I’m sure he’ll be fine. 

These are responses I don’t understand.  While the bun frequently posts goofy stuff, it is certainly legitimate to discuss why such a high level athlete and top recruit failed to live up the the athletic expectations.

As to your comments, I hope he looks at his personal experiences as you describe because if his lone reason for attending college was a title he has fallen way short.

[MSU158 2,008]

These threads make me laugh. If you AA, your career isn’t remotely a failure, regardless of where you are subjectively ranked by undeniably flawed humans out of High School. NEWSFLASH:  DI wrestling is really fricking hard!
 

The guy is 111-29 and has wins over both Finalists from last season. He has won 7 matches at NCAA’s and has a legit chance to win 10 over 4 years. How many guys do you think have actually done that?  This is a career 99% fall short of. 
 

With that said, he has really done about as well as he should have been expected to do. Anthony was over ranked because of his freestyle accolades. Sadly, that didn’t translate to folk. Why?  Because he was a big move guy on his feet, but lacked DI level stamina and physicality. This gets exposed when he wrestles very physical wrestlers, especially on the mat, that can go really hard the entire match. 
 

It really isn’t about HEW at all. It is simply about being in a DI room for a very long time, having developmentally plateaued. Throw in a couple of rough injuries and you aren’t going to see him shockingly become the number 1 guy in the country when he has always been a 6-12 type guy…