Post by mikeytbuckeyes on Sept 19, 2013 6:55:03 GMT -5
Former Buckeye wrestlers Reece Humphrey (60kg) and JD Bergman (96kg) competed in the world championships in Budapest during the past few days. The format for the world championships is if you lose, the guy that beat you must advance to the finals in order for you to have a shot at coming back and competing for the bronze medal. If he loses before the gold medal match, you are out. So, it's possible you could make one mistake that cost you the match and you are done after only 1 match.
That was the fate for JD Bergman. He was up 3-0 against his opponent from Turkey with about 2 minutes left in the match, got sloppy, and got thrown and pinned (it was a very nice throw). Unfortunately the Turk lost the next round and JD was out. Quite a shame because JD was by far the better wrestler, just lost focus for 1 second and that's all it took.
Reece came much closer to a medal but fell a match short. He was pretty much untested his first 2 matches winning by pin and technical fall (winning by a margin of 7 or more...basically the mercy rule in wrestling) respectively before falling to the Iranian (and eventual bronze medal winner) by a score of 9-8 as he gave up the winning 2 pts with only 4 seconds left. That's going to haunt him. There were some questionable calls in this match but it looked like Reece just started to run out of gas. I'm interested to see how things play out for Reece from here on out as the governing body for international wrestling has cut the 60kg weight class. That means Reece has to put on weight if he wants to continue wrestling in international competition. We'll see how the move up works out for him.
In non-Buckeye news, defending Olympic and world champion Jordan Burroughs won his 3rd world/Olympic title with little resistance. That extends his undefeated streak to 65 matches in a row. In case it's not amazing enough that he's never been defeated in international competition he competed yesterday after breaking his ankle and having surgery on it (having a plate and 5 screws put in it) just 26 days ago. His closest match was the 4-0 win in the gold medal match against the Iranian.
I know it's football season and most don't care about wrestling but I dig it and appreciate the audience as I brag about our Buckeyes' post college careers.
That was the fate for JD Bergman. He was up 3-0 against his opponent from Turkey with about 2 minutes left in the match, got sloppy, and got thrown and pinned (it was a very nice throw). Unfortunately the Turk lost the next round and JD was out. Quite a shame because JD was by far the better wrestler, just lost focus for 1 second and that's all it took.
Reece came much closer to a medal but fell a match short. He was pretty much untested his first 2 matches winning by pin and technical fall (winning by a margin of 7 or more...basically the mercy rule in wrestling) respectively before falling to the Iranian (and eventual bronze medal winner) by a score of 9-8 as he gave up the winning 2 pts with only 4 seconds left. That's going to haunt him. There were some questionable calls in this match but it looked like Reece just started to run out of gas. I'm interested to see how things play out for Reece from here on out as the governing body for international wrestling has cut the 60kg weight class. That means Reece has to put on weight if he wants to continue wrestling in international competition. We'll see how the move up works out for him.
In non-Buckeye news, defending Olympic and world champion Jordan Burroughs won his 3rd world/Olympic title with little resistance. That extends his undefeated streak to 65 matches in a row. In case it's not amazing enough that he's never been defeated in international competition he competed yesterday after breaking his ankle and having surgery on it (having a plate and 5 screws put in it) just 26 days ago. His closest match was the 4-0 win in the gold medal match against the Iranian.
I know it's football season and most don't care about wrestling but I dig it and appreciate the audience as I brag about our Buckeyes' post college careers.
