The MOST CONTROVERSIAL ending ever?! Zain Retherford vs. Yianni Diakomihalis | Final X 2019

[@joeycisneros9484]

It was definitely yianni’s move on that flurry. Zain’s legs were flopping around and you can see yianni pull and roll through on top. Giving 2-2 was generous imo

[@chloethacker]

yanni is better than zain. zain has peaked, yanni has not.

[@chcknpie04]

@@Michael-ii9fs nice analysis!

[@DTS_I]

@@chcknpie04 bad analysis. Same level if anything.

[@Meursault_1111]

@@chloethacker that comment aged like milk.

[@Ice-Berg_]

@@chloethackeryeah bad take amigo

[@austinwyngarden6227]

That was terrible officiating. The mat official is from Michigan and he used to do a lot of youth wrestling tournaments but he was usually very good. He scored the match correctly in my opinion and the table screwed Yianni for sure....

[@Passtheremoteplease]

Everyone’s missing the damn point. You can’t review an exchange from fucking exchanges ago for shits and giggles. They realized they fucked the score and refs felt the pressure and went back for the review. Was it right in the first place? Controversial. Can they go back and review enhances from that long ago in the match? Hell no. I’ve never seen that happen before.

[@darron614]

Everyone talks about the end, but that 4-4 at the beginning was goofy. Should have been 4-2 in favor of Zain.

[@williamebert5920]

11:08 peep AJ Ferrari fired up must be a big Yanni fan

[@yunuh94]

Nice catch

[@dohcsmr1175]

@@yunuh94 nah. A.J., as with a lot of others are Penn State haters.

[@gamespotlive3673]

@@dohcsmr1175 or maybe he's just not a fan of terrible refereeing.

[@dohcsmr1175]

@@gamespotlive3673 Deep rebuttal. Perhaps you should dawn the strips and whistle and have a go at world class wrestling. You seem to have a good grasp of trolling witch favors non judgmental calls. Just to clue you in AJ could not spell cat if you fronted him a C and an A.

[@fshnbuddy2]

Pathetic chair calls throughout. If the score stood at the end it’s done no more should have been awarded.

[@ironmonstertrained2234]

Great wrestling but boy that was not a good call.

[@chadblanco5985]

Great match but not sure about that

[@bobziadie2988]

Yanni and Zain, the best rivalry in American wrestling right now. Burroughs-Dake great too, but not as much overall action with those two.

[@FirstLast-xr9lo]

Nah - it's absolutely Yanni and Zain!!! Burroughs beat Dake for a full decade. Dake finally getting past him is expected after Burroughs shattered his ankle and lost so much speed right before the Tokyo trials.

[@OrganicHealer]

haha... you know when the commentators are confused then the people watching have no clue

[@lilperry35]

Now this is a match I wouldn’t even want to officiate 😂 I would just watch them go at it and forget to blow the whistle

[@stevekwan8232]

Well this is what u get in freestyle. Vague scoring criteria. Sometimes dont know who initiated and whether there was back exposure

[@AspireNation]

When was that ?

[@johnulmer6715]

You can go back a minute if it's continuis wrestling for advantage without a stalemate and returning to the feet. You can't stop that action for a challenge.

[@lilygrahamcakes4199]

WAIT !! WHEN was this match ???

[@SeaTeaSnow]

late 2019 i think

[@DTS_I]

June 2019. They wrestled 5 times from May-July in 2019. Zain won 3/5.

[@salanov1]

I think this match is not hard to decide

[@robertyago3368]

What's the sge difference 5 years

[@thedon3346]

Omg what a nightmare to try to score this match. I think Yianni won if we just get away from exposure that wasnt there, because they were both wrapped up so crazy, and neutral. However if we just go on like criteria of control during the match, and mostly that last scramble. Yianni Imo was in control. Thats what he was trying to tell them with that move. With the wrap and the sweep. He felt, and knew he was in control. From the outside looking in we cant feel what Yianni felt in that moment. So yea thats tough to call, but i think Yianni by razor thin margin won, BUT i wish there could be draws lol..>This was so close its so crazy to call one man the winner. If i had to say though i think Yianni won.

[@BossCat42]

Don’t like how the match was scored, but I think the right man won in the end.

[@fshnbuddy2]

2 and 1. What was the 1 for when they were both grounded and yannis foot went out wtf.

[@b_rice_1751]

The one came from criteria. Since the score would be 8-8 zain had a 4 point move giving him criteria at the end and they aren’t just gonna end it 8-8 so they give a criteria point

[@fshnbuddy2]

@@b_rice_1751 when does criteria get a point? If you have criteria you win but didn’t think it gave a point.

[@zaynes5094]

@@fshnbuddy2 Yeah they basically give the person who scored the 4 the fourth point, even though it's criteria and not a full point they have to count it as a point. I guess they could've done a sudden victory overtime but they didn't because he had the 4 points.

[@jeffjeff8562]

Zain won this match. The 2-2 shouldn't of been 2 for Yianni also. Watch carefully, Zain uses his left leg at 6:30 to push Yianni as well as uses his left arm to lift Yianni's leg during the turn exposing Yianni. Yianni was along for the ride at that point. Yianni didn't initiate that turn. Even further, it would've been impossible for Yianni to lift or turn Zain because Yianni was holding on for dear life and had no base to turn from, he was off balance. You can pause it and run it at 25% and see this is totally obvious. Watch Zains left leg and left arm make that exposure.

[@tombystander]

Watch yiannis right shoulder as they roll, do it with ur .25x speed, imagine them on their feet and u can see him going for a throw easily. He throws all momentum over that shoulder

[@jeffjeff8562]

@@tombystander Yianni was trying to plead his case at 9:15 when he was acting out his move that we are referring to. Yianni was the one who was in the defensive posture after Zain shot and clearly Zain initiated the roll with his left leg and left arm. That's the part you aren't talking about, you argument begins after Zain initiated the move. Yianni was along for the ride, but cleverly tried to make it look like he initiated the roll and even tried to plead his case, which is exactly what you are doing. I've seen this happen a thousand times in freestyle. The thing that makes it most clear to me is when Zain used his left leg to push, I looked to see if it could've been Yianni going for that roll, but it is impossible for him to initiate that roll without Zain planting his left leg and pushing off, initiating that roll. Yianni was in no position to make that roll happen. He was hanging trying to get the whistle. This call was correct. I'm not 100% on the rules in freestyle, but I know them enough. This one to me looks like they reversed the call because of that reason. Yianni cannot use the momentum Zain produced to expose Zain.

[@christopherroth7239]

Yianni moved his left leg to block Zains right arm and than pushed off intitiating the turn. That's what I saw. That's what he was claiming. You saw it differently. Refs saw it differently. Either way the brick was thrown too late per the rules and the original scoring should have stood. That is why this match was thrown out after appeals and another match was scheduled.

[@FirstLast-xr9lo]

Yianni needs to win decisively like he is very capable of doing. Any time you leave it up to the refs and a challenge you are risking the loss. Yianni D. is AWESOME!!!

[@shootajack654]

Was this in 2019??

[@wrestling4jiujitsu]

This is why the freestyle rule set is so ridiculous.

[@Mjones4949]

What was that? SMH!

[@lolol1725]

Not as controversial as Jordan Oliver's non-takedown versus Logan Steiber in the NCAA finals

[@Malcolm-mz5jw]

Awesome match, but in my opinion, I think Zain was the victim of some officiating errors

[@craighaynes6753]

A classic Bad call

[@yourdedcat-qr7ln]

Alchemy

[@GNP999]

Late to the show but that was a horrible call to decide a tough match. Yianni won that match

[@zaynes5094]

Either way we'd be looking at a Olympic medalist for the U.S. team at 65 kg instead of bum Jordan Oliver who stole the show for that one match and now hasn't done anything special since that upset.

[@thundercat_945]

Both wrestlers shoulders, went past 90°, for a one mississippi count, each... So 1 a piece = 5-7, in favor of Yanni.

[@stevekwan8232]

Even "experts" have a hard time. No wonder average viewers do not watch. At least folkstyle u know most of the time

[@lazarooliva8289]

This is *****

[@natestakely1478]

na, that would be any Ohio State wrestler that gets to the semis or better. Fn referees wanna hate because of the football team.

[@dohcsmr1175]

Ohio State home cooking is disgraceful. You obviously are ignorant with this post. OSU favoritism is an excepted circumstance in all sports. Especially wrestling. The biggest joke was the 2018 OSU wrestling team ranked higher than the defending National Champions of Penn State. Did not matter. Penn State flogged their ass in the duals with Nolf out. Then OSU lost the National Championship by way of a pin. Sad. Regardless of the favoritism they still choked.

[@natestakely1478]

@@dohcsmr1175 see?, crying butt hurt psu football fan. At least Franklin loves.....Oh wait...... btw I sent "In search of" out to look for Cale's threat to dump PSU over covid mandate. It has CIA vanished from the net.

[@ZMN_216]

Yianni won

[@AntiPattern328]

What an amazing match!!! No losers here!

[@tyonwii2785]

Yianni shoulda won that match

[@Dare65000]

Wow! What a match!

[@robertyago3368]

I seen a a highschooler destroy Zain Aaron Pico best highschool wrestler I ever seen 5x Cali state championship didn't go to college went on a contract to bellator.......the next big highschooler who is insane pj Duke beating kids 6 years older then him straight dominating

[@7mikepd]

if either one of these guys won the u.s. trials we would have qualified the weight class. Jordan Oliver just had an amazing day. Bummer.

[@pablofonseca13411]

Absolutely a travesty.. that ref sucks… not ready for primetime

[@dajudgment9332]

truly truly the gye in red did score in the locked tuble two thay had but thay only gave him two puting them at 6 6 then time runs out it should have come to seden death bucuse truly the in the tuble the gye in red did exspose yonis back to the mate with that rollll over he did when he rolled him that was two for back exsposer bringing the score to 6 6 then time runs out it should have been A SUDDEN DEATH BATTLE FOR THE WIN

[@j3koenig]

That's garbage

[@andy-qw9rr]

I just watched this match earlier today

[@xzjayz7925]

Yianni won this match. Zain wins now though.

[@ФилиппМелкомуков-ж3ф]

Как круто борятся!

[@DANVIIL]

Two great wrestelers and I'm content with the outcome.

[@user-jp9nj5ee7e]

Bad ref

[@jayakumar-pu1xv]

Good call zain🔥🔥

[@hdzmjr]

Bull 💩 call , very disappointing!!

[@lukejohnson4423]

Blue should not have gotten four he used reds power to get his points

[@xenonmaster6668]

What????? Do you not know freestyle? That’s how you can get some points. Any back exposure even if it’s not like direct you can say you can get 2 exposure still. Do you not know that much about freestyle?

[@lukejohnson4423]

@@xenonmaster6668 they change the rules all the time and I’m pretty sure that now when u take a shot the person has to completely stop ur momentum and then turn u to get points

[@tristanbridges5782]

@@lukejohnson4423 no you don’t ,

[@karlosefernades3917]

Yani anamutta

[@entryred]

Zain Train 💙

[@iannidd]

Table definitely screwed Yanni. Sad to say but American refs and judges are way behind on freestyle. Love our folk style but if we're ever gonna really dominate the world we gotta start freestyle from kindergarten

[@zaynes5094]

Freestyle is so much better than Folkstyle. Are you kidding? Freestyle is just all around better. I felt like I could actually use some of my brown belt in judo training that I have, in a lot of my freestyle wrestling tournaments.

[@soraryukasuke1836]

Love to see zain win

[@cchavez4053]

bullshit win

[@tonymatos2913]

Yanni had 4 points given to him that were not initiated by him. The first flurry when Zain took him down and rolled him, and the call at the end was correct, in favor of Zain. Yanni was controlled in both instances, by Retherford's initiation of the moves.

[@lawsonransom8318]

I watched an Iranian wrestler take down Diak 5 times easily.