My son's Wrestling season...

[DarthPenguin]

On 3/26/2025 at 3:16 AM, bushido_man96 said:

This may still happen.  The announcers were talking about it off and on during the broadcast.  He's planning another Olympic run, but after that, I can see him getting into MMA.

Will be interesting to see - though i am wondering if there are a few red flags appearing now: flaming out in WWE and NFL; getting beaten at NCAA (while i am sure his opponent is excellent he is still the olympic champ!)

[bushido_man96]

Nah, no red flags.  That's how wrestling works.  Plenty of great athletes have flamed out of the NFL and gone on to be successful in other careers:  Brock Lesnar had a decent MMA career, but got cut in Vikings camp I believe.  Dwayne Johnson also didn't make the cut for the NFL.  Kimbo Slice played football collegiately for Florida State University and enjoyed his own run of fame.  Carl Weathers was cut from the Raiders roster and enjoyed a movie career.  Steveson is going to be just fine.  The opponent he lost to, Wyatt Hendrickson, is no slouch of a wrestler, and he is also going to the Olympic trials.  So no red flags; this is the competitive nature of wrestling.

[bushido_man96]

I've been very remiss in updating this thread.  Kenneth is in his sophomore high school season.  He started the season at heavyweight, and wrestled one tournament at that weight, taking first.  Then he dropped to the 215 lb weight class, and has been experiencing success there.  His first few meets were rough, but he's placed 3rd in 4 tournaments so far at 215.  We just had a really tough tournament here in town this weekend where Kenneth went 5-4 over the two-day meet.  He's edging closer to 30 wins on the season.