THE ILLINI WRESTLING BLOG AND FORUM

WHAT: ILLINI dual Purdue WHEN: Saturday, February 1 at 2:00 pm Central WHERE: Huff Hall ADMISSION: Free SPECIAL: Military Appreciation Day TV/STREAMING: BTN+ (subscription service) A DAY IN HISTORY It is February 16, 2024.  You are almost stuck at home babysitting little brother, but Tomb Raider Remastered just came out, and you know that he and his salacious little weasel friends will be locked up in his room for 48 hours playing the game.  Wendy suggested that you go with her to see Madame Web or Lisa Frankenstein . You told her [cough, cough] that you were sick. That's because you and the boys have planned a road trip to West Lafayette.  Beyoncé's   Texas Hold'Em is playing on the radio preset when you start the car, at least until you almost break your finger turning it off. Cheesy Burrito, your high school team's heavyweight, brought the new Ye piece, and he plugs it in.  You're worried. You know this is a bruised and battered bunch of ILLINI taking...

  We haven't posted about Sumo recently because there has been abysmal Sumo coverage on YouTube. The Japanese broadcasting company with the rights to show the tournaments clamped down on anybody publishing videos of their product. Thankfully, NHK has started putting out English language broadcasts of the 15-day tournaments.  This was the perfect time to sell your product in America.  There is going to be a changing of the guard. The great Yokozuna Terunofuji retired after a bad start in this tournament. He was a favorite of ours. So, his retirement was a sad event. But he had bad knees. It was time.  But there was also a new hope: Hoshoryu. He ended up winning this basho with a 12-3 record followed by a win in a three-man playoff. The council that decides Yokozuna promotion will consider whether he will be elevated to that highest rank. He has another recent tournament win in his favor, and he has been amazingly consistent in obtaining winning records in bashos over ...

MARYLAND HIGHLIGHTS The ILLINI were a 33-7 winner over the Maryland Terps. That equaled eight wins out of a possible ten. Kannon Webster scored a pin over a pretty damn good wrestler, while both Brawlnagels and Braeden Scoles earned tech falls.  The ILLINI was the winner in two top ten-ish matches, with #4 Lucas Byrd beating #11 Braxton Brown and #11 Luuuuke Luffman stuffing #12 Seth Nevills. Before showing the video, here are the results: 125: Caelan Riley  (ILL) dec. Abram Cline (MARY), 10-5 ILL 3 I MARY 0 133: #4  Lucas Byrd  (ILL) dec. #11 Braxton Brown (MARY), 7-3 ILL 6 I MARY 0 141: #12  Danny Pucino  (ILL) dec. Dario Lemus (MARY), 8-5 ILL 9 I MARY 0 149: #12  Kannon Webster  (ILL) over #32 Kal Miller (MARY), fall (4:39) ILL 15 I MARY 0 157: #6 Ethen Miller (MARY) major dec. #22  Jason Kraisser  (ILL), 15-6 ILL 15 I MARY 4 165: #13  Braeden Scoles  (ILL) tech. fall Alex Uryniak (MARY), 20-3 (3:15) ILL 20 I MARY ...