I’d prefer 2 pt Takedown and 0 pt Escape. Getting off bottom is its own reward. Plus, then the Takedown and the Reversal are both both worth the same amount of points.

reversal should also be worth 3 through its basically a take down from a worse starting position

I wrestled in college a few years ago I hated how I could always take guys down in high school and then because of a bad ref giving weird stall calls while I was on top or neutral to try and make the match more fair because they are losing my takedown was devalued because bad refs could make horrible calls. I lost a state finals because of this while I had a broken foot. Terrible refs can’t affect matches as much you should not win a wrestling match or have it go to overtime because you got taken down and 2 escapes and a stall call lmao wtf

I love the 3 point takedown! I really enjoy your content Ben!

I agree. Since the 3 point takedown, the number of overtimes has substantially decreased and the number of tech falls (even in college) have gone way up, which is good. It keeps tournaments moving along and respects everyone's time.

Will this have an adverse effect on the kids who don't excel right out of the gate?

Was thinking something about the reversal points

I wonder if there were more majors with the three point takedown, it seems like there should be. If it's the third period with less than a minute left, and you need three points for a major, with the two point takedown you would need a takedown, let them up, another takedown, then a ride out. Now you only need a takedown and ride out. Similar to what Ben was saying about pushing for a tech.

Even in youth wrestling, it’s made tech falls way more common. My son is 13 (8th grader) and half his matches he wins by TF. It makes the kids hunt takedowns a lot more aggressively, people select neutral way more often to hit takedowns, etc. I’ve also noticed people who aren’t good at top riding, just release and go for takedowns. Overall, I like the results.

Gotta take the heat lol.

Nobby is that you?!?

My coach called this the impossible to stop roll

Usman was good at this and used it against woodley and masvidal

PSU wrestling is like OSU football....all the stars want to play with Champions.

Someone should start wrestling events like old mma stars ect. Iv seen a couple but seem yo be rare. I'd love to see khabib vs askren. I don't watch wrestling but I'd watch that.

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That phrase is actually a Zen Buddhist statement that says something about Enlightenment...it is about cutting thru inner obstacles...water involves rising even from the lowest point with nature...this is also a standard for achieving deep concentration and Meditation...it can be used in multiple ways as in your book reference, too...

Wow. A great side of you Ben

Great video Ben. Kasak looked amazing on top, huge gains. Barr was a beast, lastly I see your boy nailed outstanding wrestler.

Loved the book and I love Mental Mondays!

The most Honest man in combat sports period Love this guy ✌️

Thanks Benjamin

I think Facundo takes the spot

I’m only anxious to see Lilledahl

Scoles and Sinclair looked great the other night in Champaign...

Nah he won't you goofy

Seems like they could learn a lot more by sending this squad to CKLV….

Ben really has a lot of good things to report about. I like his comments.

I wish you would partner with Willie and Justin Basch to upgrade what is currently being done on Division 1 NCAA Wrestling.

Is this the stairwell where Led Zep recorded "When the Levee Breaks"? Where's Black Dog?

Flow wrestling is not the same without this guy but on his own he is missing something not clicking not the same like the smother brothers not together not right

Ben Askren is good for the sport

Iowa state lost to Stanford

I hope ISU can win the first 4 matches to make it close and entertaining dual but I also think Iowa will take care of business as they have the past 18 times with brands coaching

Who do you have winning 149? I'm surprised that wasn't in your top 3, that feels like the biggest toss-up of the dual between two guys that could conceivably be wrestling Saturday night.

The goat FRL is horrible without you

Go Ben!! All time great for the sport!

But can he take down Giorgio?

Akhmed Magomedovich Tazhudinov would be another HUGE debut. Beat Snyder and Sadulaev back to back aged 20 at the world championships, then coasted to gold there and took Olympic gold next year, apparently without breaking a sweat.

It's a shame that MMA and UFC specifically doesn't do more to help promote and support college wrestling. The sport has grown and benefitted so much from wrestlers, too many to even begin to list. You'd think they'd want to ensure that pipeline of talent continues by doing things to make sure the sport is healthy. I guess it makes sense that they don't do much considering they do almost everything to discourage fighters from wrestling to begin with at this point.

Wrestling needs to make something other than the NCAA tournament matter to casual wrestling fans that want to follow the sport and support it but aren't interested in meaningless dual meets where they don't even know if the best wrestlers will show up. They basically tell everyone nothing matters until the very end. Dual meets have to matter somehow. No amount of fake hype or contrived, forced trash talk will make in-season events intriguing unless there are consequences for winning and losing and even wrestling the matches.

No, you will not be able to simply “find raise for additional scholarships.” The NCAA is apparently giving “unlimited scholarships” to most individual programs, but it is coming out of a set number of OVERALL scholarships for all programs. It would be against the rules for programs to simply find raise and circumvent the rules. And NIL is apparently becoming highly regulated and to be used as it was intended. This means pay-for-play is over. Wrestling, and non-revenue men’s sports, are likely in big, big trouble.

They hopefully can appeal this. Schools will just drop wrestling.

And to top it off he has that Japanese baby face smiling at you after he whoops your arse!😅😅😅

Insane recency bias right here lol. Terrible take.

Jesus Christ Kiyooka beat this kid 10-0 but because of the always thin 61kg bracket he’s the best in the world?!?! Ridiculous. 61kg has always been weak which is why we have gotten silvers and a gold out of it with fix and Vito recently. The best Russian at this weight moved up to 65kg to try and make the Olympic team. It was a three man bracket. The Russian was hurt, Vito said he literally trained for just a month and there was Ono. Ono is exciting no doubt about that but this is one of the dumber things Askren has said and he makes a living on dating dumb shit (it’s just usually not about wrestling).

He also said he was finished when he took the Oklahoma State job.

Masanasuke and Sadulov are best in the world

Good takes, as usual