I don’t think you posting this picture helps your case that he could easily go 97 and win it all. Based on this picture he’s shorter than otoole and Carter. Look at him next to a true 197. Tazhudinov would absolutely tower over him and cause problemsView attachment 127895
He’s pretty thick for his height now.
Still could easily go 97 and win as well.
I think they are both familiar with each other, no doubt. I just don’t think they train together anymore. Taylor has known that Brooks was his top contender for a while now. Same with Dake/Nolf. They don’t train together much if at all. There’s plenty of other top guys in the room for them all to train with.Don't disagree, but the roll DT has been on the last 3 years or so was impressive. Not that Flo is the end all, but they had him ranked #1 P4P in the world. Make no mistake, this was a huge upset and there is a strong possibility that familiarity played a role.
The picture was in response to the comment about his frame. That’s why I said he was thick for his height.I don’t think you posting this picture helps your case that he could easily go 97 and win it all. Based on this picture he’s shorter than otoole and Carter. Look at him next to a true 197. Tazhudinov would absolutely tower over him and cause problems
It is pretty strange, but we’re historically bad at this weight. Maybe we’ve had 2 medals over the past 20 years? Bill Zadick and Yianni? Both kind of flukish and no consistent results.This is awesome. Its still strange to me that it had to come to this at 65kg. It seems like some of the best wrestlers we have in the country fall into this weight & we had to get pulled into repechage at the last chance qualifier to do it.