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Corby2

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El_Jefe said:
Not sure where Keck scored more than a pushout there. At no point was Dake exposed, and no takedown since he landed on top of Keck.

In any case, Dake has been hitting that chest wrap since God was a child. If you're gonna beat him, you need to prep for it.
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They probably would've said Dake exposed and gave 4 to keck . I just watched it a few more times. Dake never stops Keck and used kecks momentum to take him through. They typically reward the offensive wrestler in those situations. RAF needs Sammy Julian as a review official. Have Izzy , Willie and Lance palmer with a button in front of them and if 2 of the 3 hit the button a buzzer sounds in the refs ear and Sammy Julian reviews the sequence. If RAF is gonna stay around you need reviews. Freestyle has 3 refs because it can be seen
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Misalorales said:
Ya maybe. I'll be glad to be wrong but I don't see it working out long term. The novelty wears off. I'm just excited for real international freestyle and the awesome domestic tournaments that lead up to it.
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It doesn’t light my fire either. I am not paying for a subscription to Fox Nation anytime soon. I am only speculating on how they could (possibly) make it viable.
 
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Ernie Ladd said:
If they are trying to tap into the UFC audience, it might be viable. Grow it slowly and deliberately. Need to have a ranking for each weight with a champ and contenders (maybe they have it already).
The growth and popularity of women’s wrestling is making the whole sport more popular.
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Throw in mud wrestling and it will really take off lol
 
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Ernie Ladd said:
It doesn’t light my fire either. I am not paying for a subscription to Fox Nation anytime soon. I am only speculating on how they could (possibly) make it viable.
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I enjoyed most of the matches, but could do without the tarted up, trampy looking broads holding up cards between rounds, The worst part of the RAF6 was the planned riot. Repeating the match in RAF7 was, in my opinion, a very low class move. I'm sure they did it the money and to hype viewership. To me it felt not only very tacky, but likely fixed. Not the way I would like to see wrestling promoted.
 
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I’m not a fan of the mma/retired guys/influencer matches but if it allows for matches like Dake vs Keck and Snyder vs Taz I’ll take it. Those are high level matchups we don’t get to see often enough. Suffering through the other matches is worth it to me to see some truly elite guys get after it
 
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APSPSUwrestlingfan said:
I enjoyed most of the matches, but could do without the tarted up, trampy looking broads holding up cards between rounds, The worst part of the RAF6 was the planned riot. Repeating the match in RAF7 was, in my opinion, a very low class move. I'm sure they did it the money and to hype viewership. To me it felt not only very tacky, but likely fixed. Not the way I would like to see wrestling promoted.
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I sadly couldn't help reading the chat on the side during the Youtube stream. Every few seconds "when is Arman?" (Plus "these women are boring" - like Kennedy Blades could be boring....). I want real wrestling, not fake drama but it might be an unfortunate financial reality to do matches like that.
 
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zzs006 said:
I’m not a fan of the mma/retired guys/influencer matches but if it allows for matches like Dake vs Keck and Snyder vs Taz I’ll take it. Those are high level matchups we don’t get to see often enough. Suffering through the other matches is worth it to me to see some truly elite guys get after it
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I love the fact that this is allowing some matches that would have taken place once a year (or every other year) and I may be biased but the MMA guys wrestling is not a bad thing and highlights and promotes wrestling to a bigger audience... I personally would like to see teams... Like... USA, Russia, Canada, Iran, Japan, etc. I feel like that would add to the attraction!
 
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Corby2 said:
They probably would've said Dake exposed and gave 4 to keck . I just watched it a few more times. Dake never stops Keck and used kecks momentum to take him through. They typically reward the offensive wrestler in those situations. RAF needs Sammy Julian as a review official. Have Izzy , Willie and Lance palmer with a button in front of them and if 2 of the 3 hit the button a buzzer sounds in the refs ear and Sammy Julian reviews the sequence. If RAF is gonna stay around you need reviews. Freestyle has 3 refs because it can be seen
differently.
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I'd have to watch it again, but I thought Keck would have just got the step out.
 
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Honcho said:
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I'm sorry to be the continual wet blanket on RAF but seriously, who sees Nolf vs Joey Blaze and says " wow what a matchup!" This isn't a banger. This is a legend of the sport going against a very good collegiate wrestler. This is an experienced and supremely talented guy wrestling a highly talented and much lesser experienced guy. This is Nolf demolishing Blaze. I just don't get it. Hell, I honestly don't get why wrestling needs a "pro league/promotion" aside from we want guys to be able to earn a living wrestling post college. Sorry. I can't help but be a douche I guess.
 
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Misalorales said:
I'm sorry to be the continual wet blanket on RAF but seriously, who sees Nolf vs Joey Blaze and says " wow what a matchup!" This isn't a banger. This is a legend of the sport going against a very good collegiate wrestler. This is an experienced and supremely talented guy wrestling a highly talented and much lesser experienced guy. This is Nolf demolishing Blaze. I just don't get it. Hell, I honestly don't get why wrestling needs a "pro league/promotion" aside from we want guys to be able to earn a living wrestling post college. Sorry. I can't help but be a douche I guess.
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That's not being a wet blanket. Give me Nolf vs Mesenbrink. Marcus Blaze vs Forrest, Davino vs Seidel, Joey Blaze vs Caliendo.
 
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I’m definitely interested in Zahid vs Sinclair. A ton of matchups I couldn’t give a **** about but every card has had a few fire matches as well. This one and Snyder vs Aitmukhan are worth watching
 
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Misalorales said:
I'm sorry to be the continual wet blanket on RAF but seriously, who sees Nolf vs Joey Blaze and says " wow what a matchup!" This isn't a banger. This is a legend of the sport going against a very good collegiate wrestler. This is an experienced and supremely talented guy wrestling a highly talented and much lesser experienced guy. This is Nolf demolishing Blaze. I just don't get it. Hell, I honestly don't get why wrestling needs a "pro league/promotion" aside from we want guys to be able to earn a living wrestling post college. Sorry. I can't help but be a douche I guess.
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Love to see the odds on that fight probably isn't any everybody would take nolf
 
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Misalorales said:
I'm sorry to be the continual wet blanket on RAF but seriously, who sees Nolf vs Joey Blaze and says " wow what a matchup!" This isn't a banger. This is a legend of the sport going against a very good collegiate wrestler. This is an experienced and supremely talented guy wrestling a highly talented and much lesser experienced guy. This is Nolf demolishing Blaze. I just don't get it. Hell, I honestly don't get why wrestling needs a "pro league/promotion" aside from we want guys to be able to earn a living wrestling post college. Sorry. I can't help but be a douche I guess.
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Coastal2 said:
That's not being a wet blanket. Give me Nolf vs Mesenbrink. Marcus Blaze vs Forrest, Davino vs Seidel, Joey Blaze vs Caliendo.
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Prime Nolf vs. a Blaze just coming off a college season is a bit different than what we have here.
This is not a 100% full bore training Nolf. I think what we will see is a savy "old" wrestler vs. a very very good college wrestler. I can see this match going a bunch of different ways.
Who saw Wick beating Nolf?
Nolf wants to put on a show so this could be a ton of fun.
 
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Cstroke said:
Prime Nolf vs. a Blaze just coming off a college season is a bit different than what we have here.
This is not a 100% full bore training Nolf. I think what we will see is a savy "old" wrestler vs. a very very good college wrestler. I can see this match going a bunch of different ways.
Who saw Wick beating Nolf?
Nolf wants to put on a show so this could be a ton of fun.
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Misalorales

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Cstroke said:
Prime Nolf vs. a Blaze just coming off a college season is a bit different than what we have here.
This is not a 100% full bore training Nolf. I think what we will see is a savy "old" wrestler vs. a very very good college wrestler. I can see this match going a bunch of different ways.
Who saw Wick beating Nolf?
Nolf wants to put on a show so this could be a ton of fun.
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Fair. Let me just say, I'm not all that interested in watching non prime anyone wrestle. RAF doesn't do it for me. Hopefully it has staying power, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it doesn't.
 
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I wasn’t paying attention in between periods, but now I’m curious…who cornered each guy in Nolf-Blaze?
 
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Zahid says he wants a match with Bo. 1 minute later RAF announces Khamzat Chimaev is signed. Things are heating up!

 
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