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Libertylover

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The problem is that we're not doing anything to fix the problem. And I don't know what the fix is, but whatever it is, we're not doing it.
It is bothersome he lost his RAF match the same way, giving up a throw with a few seconds remaining. Needs to work on his stalling.
 

Nitlion1986

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Freestyle Wrestling RULES are a DISGRACE!!!! When you have MOST of the matches where NO ONE knows what the DANG score is!?!?!? Well it is NOT good!!!

LEEs match, he had a push out where lillyLivers both feet were out!!! The announces even said they did not understand!!!
Think it was LOVETT with an Arm Spin, for a score, POS ref stopped it!?!?!? That will NOT happen over seas!!!!
You had THREEE "officials" ( do not know where in all HELL they get these CHARACTERS from-the 99 cent store) taking time out to review the score that THEY had!!!! They change it, it gets challenged. ANNOUNCES have one core, refs another, and after a challenge- still ANOTHER!!!

LUNGer for green was a factor in the match. Walking around with a foam dice, WTF is that!?!?!? Waste more time????? Then you have what must be a F*** st bandWagon DUFUS as a "MatBoy" trying to wipe up the mat with a roll of paper towels and a spray bottle!?!?!? This is the US OPEN!?!?!?
The DOLT spews syllables.
 

MSU158

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Needs to get back to full match domination. I know he's got the goods.
He has to stop FULLY engaging AND pressing FORWARD with short time left. I know stalling isn't in his DNA, but match tactics with short time left gives you NO advantage pressing positions with a lead. In fact, you are giving your opponent his best chance to hit a desperation move by fully presenting yourself while TIRED...Dan Dennis, OF ALL PEOPLE, should know this!
 

dicemen99

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It's not a step out unless the head or upper body make contact too, per the rules that have been in place for a while now.
SSSSHHHHH...

If the IronCooCoo actually knew what the rule was we would not have the entertainment value of reading his ALLCAPS scream about Lord Spencer getting robbed of a point (that was clearly not a point by the rules - this year's or any previous year's). It's better when he just goes off on stuff he is completely wrong on.



For those posters who actually do care about knowing the rules, you probably should clarify that this is in reference to the new grounding pushout rules. There are a couple more situations than what you posted, but, yes, if grounded, just having your legs/feet out of the circle does not result in a pushout point. Your chest/head either needs to be out of the cylinder or in contact with the mat. Again, if grounded.
 
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Mattski

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He has to stop FULLY engaging AND pressing FORWARD with short time left. I know stalling isn't in his DNA, but match tactics with short time left gives you NO advantage pressing positions with a lead. In fact, you are giving your opponent his best chance to hit a desperation move by fully presenting yourself while TIRED...Dan Dennis, OF ALL PEOPLE, should know this!
Yet its happened multiple times now. Why do you think that is?
 

HugoHugo

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He has to stop FULLY engaging AND pressing FORWARD with short time left. I know stalling isn't in his DNA, but match tactics with short time left gives you NO advantage pressing positions with a lead. In fact, you are giving your opponent his best chance to hit a desperation move by fully presenting yourself while TIRED...Dan Dennis, OF ALL PEOPLE, should know this!

Did you even WATCH the match?

Lee was on his HEELS and BACKING UP when Lilledahl hit the hail-mary headlock. Lee was not pressing FORWARD with short time left.

Saturday Night Lights on X: "Luke Lilledahl just won the U.S. Open in unreal fashion. Down late, Lilledahl hit a lefty headlock to take out Spencer Lee, 5-4, in the 57 kg finals. Massive moment. Massive win. What a finish. https://t.co/THFuYmnYfr" / X
 

MSU158

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Tell me you know nothing about wrestling then.I watched EVERY part of it. He went full over under which is WHY Luke was able to hit the headlock...sheesh you can't be serious... look at his head position too, he is fully pressed forward in a position that is the LITERAL OPPOSITE of disengaged...

FloWrestling on X: "Luke Lilledahl headlocks Spencer Lee in the final seconds for the win 🤯 https://t.co/x4pX0dkZwX" / X

He should have been sprawling and BACKING out of that position. Instead he came forward and up with the arms....hell watch his feet too. They don't go backwards at ALL. He plants and pressures FORWARD....try hitting a headlock with someone bellying down and backing away, it is next to impossible...
 
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HugoHugo

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Tell me you know nothing about wrestling then.I watched EVERY part of it. He went full double unders which is WHY Luke was able to hit the headlock...sheesh you can't be serious... look at his head position too, he is fully pressed forward in a position that is the LITERAL OPPOSITE of disengaged...

FloWrestling on X: "Luke Lilledahl headlocks Spencer Lee in the final seconds for the win 🤯 https://t.co/x4pX0dkZwX" / X

You really are clueless. If you think that was pressing FORWARD (while backing up four times), there really is nothing that anyone can do for you.

We CLEARLY watched the end of two different matches.

FYI - "He went full double unders". lol
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MSU158

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You really are clueless. If you think that was pressing FORWARD (while backing up four times), there really is nothing that anyone can do for you.

We CLEARLY watched the end of two different matches.
In the headlock exchange did his feet go backwards at ALL? The answer is no, clear as day. All he had to do was throw his feet back and the match was over...To be EXACT with that sequence, Lilledahl shoots, Lee sprawls and comes up STRAIGHT FORWARD INTO AN OVER UNDER AND PLANTS HIS FEET, even circling forward. How is that even debated???
 

HugoHugo

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In the headlock exchange did his feet go backwards at ALL? The answer is no, clear as day. All he had to do was throw his feet back and the match was over...To be EXACT with that sequence, Lilledahl shoots, Lee sprawls and comes up STRAIGHT FORWARD INTO AN OVER UNDER AND PLANTS HIS FEET, even circling forward. How is that even debated???

So is this the "full double unders" from Lee that you saw? lol
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MSU158

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So is this the "full double unders" from Lee that you saw? lol
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Read what you quoted above. I said over under....even if it was mispoken about 1 arm over and 1 arm under, the point would still stay 100% the same, would it not? You are nitpicking an irrelevant part of the position based on memory and not freshly watching the match. The entire point was going into a full upper body position while PLANTING his feet with pressure FORWARD...
 

HugoHugo

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Read what you quoted above. I said over under....even if it was mispoken about 1 arm over and 1 arm under, the point would still stay 100% the same, would it not? You are nitpicking an irrelevant part of the position based on memory and not freshly watching the match. The entire point was going into a full upper body position while PLANTING his feet with pressure FORWARD...

Pressing forward / backing up, double-unders / double-overs - it is all the same. 🤡
 

BrianLafevre

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Read what you quoted above. I said over under....even if it was mispoken about 1 arm over and 1 arm under, the point would still stay 100% the same, would it not? You are nitpicking an irrelevant part of the position based on memory and not freshly watching the match. The entire point was going into a full upper body position while PLANTING his feet with pressure FORWARD...
Your original post, which you edited and then lied about can be seen because it was quoted before you edited it. I have now spent too much time today reading about another one of your goal-post moving squabbles in a vain attempt to prove some useless point.

The fact is Lee lost..again... that does not inspire confidence in his chances for a world/olympic gold. Not to mention his Olympic finals match where his only points came from pushouts and he was taken down twice.
 

MSU158

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Your original post, which you edited and then lied about can be seen because it was quoted before you edited it. I have now spent too much time today reading about another one of your goal-post moving squabbles in a vain attempt to prove some useless point.

The fact is Lee lost..again... that does not inspire confidence in his chances for a world/olympic gold. Not to mention his Olympic finals match where his only points came from pushouts and he was taken down twice.
I didn’t lie about anything. I even answered that I went off memory. Do you think one arm over instead of under changes my argument in ANY way? If you do you are completely clueless about wrestling positions and the entire point of my argument…

The best part is I didn’t even start the argument…
 

WillieTheBrain

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He has to stop FULLY engaging AND pressing FORWARD with short time left. I know stalling isn't in his DNA, but match tactics with short time left gives you NO advantage pressing positions with a lead. In fact, you are giving your opponent his best chance to hit a desperation move by fully presenting yourself while TIRED...Dan Dennis, OF ALL PEOPLE, should know this!
jfc this is the worst analysis of all time
 

maxpain

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jfc this is the worst analysis of all time
I agree.

My opinion is this: He is not good at sitting on leads because he hasn’t had to do it as much as some other elite guys who wrestle lots of close matches. Look at all of his big losses lately and even all the way back to Ramos. He thought too much and hesitated in positions instead of just wrestling and it cost him.

Regardless, unless he blew his UCL and gets surgery, I will pick him to win WTT and Final X. He tried to be a tactician in this match and take the 1 point push outs when it isn’t advantageous for him to do that. If he gets into wrestling positions he will win them the majority of the time. Don’t do the guy a favor and by not extending the positions.
 

MSU158

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jfc this is the worst analysis of all time
The best endorsement possible coming from a guy that shouldn’t comment on actual wrestling above the high school level.

the restart starts at 12 seconds left. He should be circling right off that whistle. He doesn’t. Lilledahl shoots straight on 2 seconds later and Lee knee sprawls and comes immediately up and forward. Again, a mistake with a 1 pt lead and less than 10 secs left. After that he goes over/under plants his feet and circles FORWARD to the under OPENING up the headlock possibility to begin with.

NONE of that is smart wrestling with a small lead and short time left. Again, he should have circled back and up out of the sprawl and kept his hands low and circling. Make him shoot again sprawl and the match is over.

EVERYTHING he did maximized Luke’s chances to score. Luke still absolutely earned it, but it absolutely was poor short time management. You don’t need to score. You need to put yourself in the best situation possible to kill less than 10 seconds…
 

vhsalum

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The best endorsement possible coming from a guy that shouldn’t comment on actual wrestling above the high school level.

the restart starts at 12 seconds left. He should be circling right off that whistle. He doesn’t. Lilledahl shoots straight on 2 seconds later and Lee knee sprawls and comes immediately up and forward. Again, a mistake with a 1 pt lead and less than 10 secs left. After that he goes over/under plants his feet and circles FORWARD to the under OPENING up the headlock possibility to begin with.

NONE of that is smart wrestling with a small lead and short time left. Again, he should have circled back and up out of the sprawl and kept his hands low and circling. Make him shoot again sprawl and the match is over.

EVERYTHING he did maximized Luke’s chances to score. Luke still absolutely earned it, but it absolutely was poor short time management. You don’t need to score. You need to put yourself in the best situation possible to kill less than 10 seconds…
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