All-Excitement Team

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Khadem announced his team for World Cup in Baku and this tournament acts as the final trial for Iran !

55kg: Hassan Rahimi, Mohammad Hossein Soltani
60kg: Masoud Esmaeilpour, Behnam Ehsanpour
66kg: Mehdi Taghavi, Meisam Nassiri
74kg: Sadegh Goudarzi, Mostafa Hosseinkhani
84kg: Ehsan Lashgari, Ehsan Amini
96kg: Reza Yazdani, Abbas Tahan

120kg: Mohammad Reza Azarshakib, Parviz Hadi

he will announce the Olympic team after this tournament based on their performance against foreign wrestlers. 120kg will be an exception, he will announce the qualifying system later.

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Back to the original question-- all time entertaining matchups.

55 kg- Jordanov vs Belaglazov Final score 20-15 or something!
60 kg- Kudukhov vs Brands- either one. These guys would beat each other half to death.
66 kg- Gable vs Fadzaev. I'm assuming Gable gets beaten but I don't know that much about either one.
74 kg- B. Saitiev vs D. Schultz- two of the most diverse technicians of all time.

84- younger Schultz vs Saitiev, I guess. I don't know.
96- Khadartsev vs Yarygin. Gatsalov takes the winner to answer the age old question "are wrestlers better today"?
120- no idea. Steven Neal is pretty exciting, maybe vs Baumgardner.

[gbdaz]

Khadem announced his team for World Cup in Baku and this tournament acts as the final trial for Iran !

55kg: Hassan Rahimi, Mohammad Hossein Soltani
60kg: Masoud Esmaeilpour, Behnam Ehsanpour
66kg: Mehdi Taghavi, Meisam Nassiri
74kg: Sadegh Goudarzi, Mostafa Hosseinkhani
84kg: Ehsan Lashgari, Ehsan Amini
96kg: Reza Yazdani, Abbas Tahan
120kg: Mohammad Reza Azarshakib, Parviz Hadi

he will announce the Olympic team after this tournament based on their performance against foreign wrestlers. 120kg will be an exception, he will announce the qualifying system later.

Did he say anything about masoumi? If it's between hadi and azarshakib, i hope hadi gets it. I always like watching the world cup always exciting.

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Did he say anything about masoumi? If it's between hadi and azarshakib, i hope hadi gets it. I always like watching the world cup always exciting.

Yes he said he's not convinced with 120kg wrestlers and he will give Masoumi another chance. it's not just between Hadi and Azarshakib. Masoumi and probably Komeil Ghasemi still have chance. and maybe Alireza Heidari , he is currently training with Khadem's team.

Iran will send a strong team to Greco World Cup too, including Sourian, Noroozi, Abdevali and Babajanzadeh.

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All Excitement Team- Greco edition

55 kg- Sourian vs ? I liked Barymov but he didn't qualify. Mankiev, but didn't win Russian nationals and might not be there either
60 kg- Noroozi vs Albiev. Match of the tournament! (vs Aliyev if Albiev doesn't make the team)
66- Manachur vs Lester reatch
74- Vlasoev vs Cebi, I guess
84- Selimov vs Cuban? Like 74, not too many guys stand out
96- Guri vs Totrov. Another 5 pt throw!
120- Lopev vs anyone who won't pay him off