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DT at Senior Worlds
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92kg - Bronze Medal Match - David Taylor VS Kamran Ghasempour (IRI)
Taylor is wearing a red singlet, and Ghasempour is wearing a bluish-black singlet with blue leg strips. The announcer said Taylor is 33 & Ghasempour is 26. The announcer said DT is a 3X world champ & Olympic gold medalist out of Oklahoma.
Period 1:
Here we go. Head slapping & hand fighting. DT gets poked in the eye & has a contact issue. It's resolved quickly & we're back to action. Tying up & circling, Ghasempour reaches for a leg, nothing & back to the tie up. Passivity warning DT, restart, 5:14 left. Tying up & circling, Ghasempour coming forward a little, stoppage & passivity warning on Ghasempour, restart, 4:44. Circling, Ghasempour shoots, DT counters & they're back to neutral. Circling, Ghasempour coming forward a little, then he gets hit with another passivity warning & goes on the clock. Ghasempour shoots a single, switches to a double & gets a TD, 2-0, shot clock turned off, restart, 3:45 left. Tying up & circling, DT shoots, Ghasempour with a chest wrap & it's a stalemate, restart. More circling & hand fighting as the period ends. 2-0 Ghasempour.
Period 2:
Back to action. DT shoots off the whistle, but Ghasempour evades. DT drives forward & tries a double leg, but Ghasempour fights him off. DT hits a quick double for a TD, 2-2, adv. DT, restart, 2:23 left. DT with a slick shot off the whistle & gets another TD, 4-2, restart, 2:07 left. Tying up & pushing & they break. Right back to the tie up & hand fighting & pushing, 1:20 left. The action has slowed a bit now. Ghasempour shoots, DT counters & Ghasempour backs out, no luck for either & they're back to neutral, 45-sec left. Tying up, Ghasempour shoots, nothing. Ghasempour shoots again, but DT blocks him off. Ghasempour getting more aggressive now & picking up the pace, he shoots again, nothing & again, but DT counters & gets another TD, 6-2 & that's how it ends.
David Taylor DEC Kamran Ghasempour 6-2
David Taylor wins Bronze!
Taylor is wearing a red singlet, and Ghasempour is wearing a bluish-black singlet with blue leg strips. The announcer said Taylor is 33 & Ghasempour is 26. The announcer said DT is a 3X world champ & Olympic gold medalist out of Oklahoma.
Period 1:
Here we go. Head slapping & hand fighting. DT gets poked in the eye & has a contact issue. It's resolved quickly & we're back to action. Tying up & circling, Ghasempour reaches for a leg, nothing & back to the tie up. Passivity warning DT, restart, 5:14 left. Tying up & circling, Ghasempour coming forward a little, stoppage & passivity warning on Ghasempour, restart, 4:44. Circling, Ghasempour shoots, DT counters & they're back to neutral. Circling, Ghasempour coming forward a little, then he gets hit with another passivity warning & goes on the clock. Ghasempour shoots a single, switches to a double & gets a TD, 2-0, shot clock turned off, restart, 3:45 left. Tying up & circling, DT shoots, Ghasempour with a chest wrap & it's a stalemate, restart. More circling & hand fighting as the period ends. 2-0 Ghasempour.
Period 2:
Back to action. DT shoots off the whistle, but Ghasempour evades. DT drives forward & tries a double leg, but Ghasempour fights him off. DT hits a quick double for a TD, 2-2, adv. DT, restart, 2:23 left. DT with a slick shot off the whistle & gets another TD, 4-2, restart, 2:07 left. Tying up & pushing & they break. Right back to the tie up & hand fighting & pushing, 1:20 left. The action has slowed a bit now. Ghasempour shoots, DT counters & Ghasempour backs out, no luck for either & they're back to neutral, 45-sec left. Tying up, Ghasempour shoots, nothing. Ghasempour shoots again, but DT blocks him off. Ghasempour getting more aggressive now & picking up the pace, he shoots again, nothing & again, but DT counters & gets another TD, 6-2 & that's how it ends.
David Taylor DEC Kamran Ghasempour 6-2
David Taylor wins Bronze!
Your #1 recruiter of high school kids is a reigning World medalist. That's a nice business card. He may have a gold, but this still says he is relevant on the world stage.
he was thisclose to taking his shoes off.
I honestly think he tried and was too emotional to make himself do it
12 world championships between those 3 in that bracket.
David won that match with his pace. He wore his opponent down. If nothing else I hope that his proteges learn from this along with his technique.
That is a ridiculous bracket and the UWW has to look at how they do things when it comes to seedings. Not that it matters what I believe but I do not believe one bit that any part of their "random" drawings are random at all.
I'm sure
I'm sure they'll get right on that.
Congratulation, great tournament, now on to the next chapter and bigger accomplishments!
Ono looks really young anyone know how old he is
Even more impressive is that he went up a weight and beat the reigning world champ. WOW!!!
You take your shoes off when you’re done competing. He’s not done competing!
That man is full blast competitive and those shoes will never come off.
That man is full blast competitive and those shoes will never come off.
I'm completely speculating here but I don't know how long David has to accept his Final X spot next year but imagine he won't decline it immediately (could be wrong though, maybe he just wants closure)
He's likely on a crash course with Aaron Brooks in that event. You KNOW he wants those matches back. I can see him wrestling that to try to sweep the matches then he'll be done and he can say "You can have the spot, I'm just giving it to you though, just know who's still ahead" Just a power move obviously.
This somewhat mirrors Gable wrestling the US Open and Final X to beat Mason Parris and then decline the World Spot but he just wanted to show him who was boss still after hearing about some saying the gap closing between him and Parris.
I lean DT doesn't care that much with everything else he has going on and he obviously doesn't want to compete if he's not fully committing to it but still ... the door is open.
He's likely on a crash course with Aaron Brooks in that event. You KNOW he wants those matches back. I can see him wrestling that to try to sweep the matches then he'll be done and he can say "You can have the spot, I'm just giving it to you though, just know who's still ahead" Just a power move obviously.
This somewhat mirrors Gable wrestling the US Open and Final X to beat Mason Parris and then decline the World Spot but he just wanted to show him who was boss still after hearing about some saying the gap closing between him and Parris.
I lean DT doesn't care that much with everything else he has going on and he obviously doesn't want to compete if he's not fully committing to it but still ... the door is open.
The quote was “Done competing, not done wrestling.” Which I thought was pretty cool.
Same, I’m so damn excited about our program right now.
This whole thing couldn’t have gone much better for DT and the Cowboy program. Just a home run all around.
Hell of a way to kick off the new era and what a couple months for OSU wrestling!
I love how he mentioned getting Zahid ready for the next cycle. This guy cares about his wrestlers and is definitely going to make them all better!
