CP, I respectfully agree to disagree with you on this one. All of the big names you mentioned really are Phenoms. Is there more of them? Absolutely, but you can have more than one phenom. You’re compared to your peers and all of these top HS guys wrestling well at the collegiate and senior level, are still better than 99% of their competition. In my opinion, that’s phenomenal. 🙏🏼

I would imagine that the young guys will come in and break all current USA world level records in regards to medal counts thanks to all these high level wrestling clubs that have started over the past decade or so

The number of wrestlers at the youth level and high school level has been increasing. It is going to add depth to USA Wrestling. As long as wrestling is growing, it is going to fund the development programs and hopefully can lead to a positive feedback of bringing more kids to wrestling

We don't have the depth of Russia but our depth is getting better and our top level in Freestyle Men's and Women's can compete with anyone in the world. Not having a clear NEXT MAN/WOMAN UP is great for USAW. Now we just need to get our Greco-Roman program to catch up.

The u.s competition wasn't as hard in high school as is now so yeah pico went further but there is so much high school talent in u.s that makes a diffrence to me...we shall see but I think bo,blaze,Forrest will all win at the the senior world stage in few years

I think you’re being unfair to pico comparing them at all.

I think that were changing our style; the Jax, Bo's, Lukes are the new age of wrestling. Today, the "older generation", are the David Taylor, Kyle Snyder, Jordan Burroughs. Believe it or not. These guys are different style then the youth. I see these youth guys are really focusing much more on re-attacks and scoring off of opponent's offense. Where the "older generation" was all about offense. The offensive attack "style" is more American than anything. I see the Iranians, the Russians, the Turks, these guys at the senior level are re-attacks, scoring off opponents' offense. I've been frustrated for years at our American style. I remember Kyle Snyder going against Abdulrashid Sadulaev, the second time. This match was a prime example of our American style of offense, scoring points, going against the "scoring off opponents' offense" and "re-attacks". The days of John Smith are over. To compete at world level, it's all going to be re-attacks, scoring off opponents' offense. And the new crop of kids are doing just that.

CP is definitely correct about USA wrestling. Especially with Russia conducting the longest "special military operation" in history which will reduce their talent pool to a degree theoretically.

Christian did you even wrestle

Ben Davino has wins over Jax, Marcus, Luke, Knox,

I think Bo Bassett is as good as Pico, but he is just growing later than Pico. Wrestling is fundamentally different at 106 and 138, that's all. In a hypothetical if I put out the pre-NCAA career of Bassett, Starrocci, and Brooks, and said 2 of these guys will be 4x NCAA champs, which ones?, every single person would pick Bassett as one of the two.

Bassett isn't another Aaron Pico? So you mean Bassett won't disappear from wrestling completely and then fail in MMA? Oh no, how will we survive?

The only phenomenon was cejudo because he actually won gold.

First?

Dumb video.