Michigan Wrestling defeats Minnesota 30-7 in dominant fashion
January 21st, 2018 at 4:06 PM ^
Massa has got to get healthy before March. It seems like they rushed him back before he was ready.
January 21st, 2018 at 4:13 PM ^
January 21st, 2018 at 5:04 PM ^
I will say this, I think right now he thinks he’s better than he is. If he’d put in the work to change levels, get his opponents moving side to side, then attack, he’s a national champ. But if he continues shooting straight on, going on his knees and grabbing single legs that sometimes work, he’ll be an AA but won’t get on the top of the podium.
And his conditioning is terrible. Not sure if he’s cutting weight, doesn’t look like he is, but he has no energy. The knee definitely effects that. So maybe he’s back a bit to early? I don’t know. I sure hope he figures it out. I love the kid. He can be a National Champ. Hope he gets it done.
January 21st, 2018 at 5:55 PM ^
It looks like maybe his injury is keeping him off the mat in practice and as we all know nothing else truly gets you in shape for wrestling like wrestling does. He did not gas like this last year. In fact, he got stronger as the match went on.
I agree on the straight ahead attacking. I'm sure the knee limits his mobility with some of the things he can do but he should be able to still use some misdirection and hand fighting to set up some things. Everything about the way he's wrestling now though makes me wonder if it's an ACL. It's too late for a med redshirt I believe so maybe he's just trying to tough it out since the year would be gone anyway.
January 21st, 2018 at 8:32 PM ^
January 21st, 2018 at 11:43 PM ^
Michigan also wrestled away the series record from Minnesota.
It was tied at 31-31-2 heading into today.
January 22nd, 2018 at 8:42 AM ^