Yasar Dogu 2019 Day Three Bracket Reactions
Yasar Dogu 2019 Day Three Bracket Reactions
Analyzing the brackets for Jordan Burroughs, Pat Downey, J'den Cox and Kyle Snyder at the 2019 Yasar Dogu Ranking Series event.
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Jordan Burroughs and Frank Chamizo are on a collision course to wrestle in the Yasar Dogu finals on Sunday. Brackets are now out for day three of the final Ranking Series event in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Also competing tomorrow are world teamers Pat Downey at 86kg, J'den Cox at 92kg, and Kyle Snyder at 97kg. Cox has already locked up the top seed for the world championships this September, while Snyder should be the 1 seed after tomorrow.
Below is a breakdown of their roads to the final, as well as a potential finals opponent. I have listed the seeding points at stake available to the wrestlers looking to improve their ranking before the world championships in Kazakhstan. Brackets and entries can be found here.
74kg: Jordan Burroughs
Points at stake - 16
74kg bracket, Burroughs and Chamizo can't meet until the finals pic.twitter.com/S8m7bqxBSb
— The Wrestling Nomad (@wrestlingnomad) July 12, 2019
Regardless of who wins the tournament, once it's over, Chamizo should be the top seed and Burroughs should be second seed in Kazakhstan. Burroughs has 63 points currently, and would overtake Zaurbek Sidakov by placing first or second. Chamizo has 72 points and just needs to wrestle for bronze to get the top seed.
JB starts off with the young Hungarian Csaba Vida, a Junior Euro bronze in 2016 and 2017. A win there puts him in the quarters against Taimuraz Salkazanov, originally from Russia but now competing for Slovakia, where he was U23 world champ last year at 70kg.
His semi should be against Yakup Gor of Turkey, a world bronze in 2015 and silver the year before down at 70kg. He was Yarygin runner-up earlier this year and bronze at the Kolov, but did not face Burroughs at the latter.
There should be little stopping us from seeing a fifth installment of the Burroughs/Chamizo series, led 3-1 by the American. Mr. Alliseeisgold took the first match 6-5 last year at Beat the Streets. The Italian by way of Cuba won round two, a very controversial 10-10 criteria victory in the finals of this very tournament a year ago.
The rubber match came in the world bronze medal match, with Burroughs coming out on top 4-4 by criteria. Then Burroughs blew doors off him 9-2 in the second round of the Dan Kolov.
86kg: Pat Downey
Points at stake - 16
86kg Dogu bracket, Downey got a great draw pic.twitter.com/p6OnfbqPcK
— The Wrestling Nomad (@wrestlingnomad) July 12, 2019
PD3 cannot earn a seed, but all of the world teamers were scheduled to wrestle here, and the Olympic weights will compete at the Pan Am Games next month as well.
Downey lands in the top half, starting in the quarters against Deepak Punia of India. The 2016 Cadet world champ and 2018 Junior world silver has a good deal of international experience despite being just 20 years old. A win there puts him in the semis against 2016 Junior world silver Osman Gocen of Turkey.
There's a few options of who he could face in the finals. He could see 2017 world silver Boris Makoev, who comes in #4 in seeding points, and really #3 since David Taylor is out. Then there is Selim Yasar, who is no longer the main guy for Turkey but was world bronze in 2014 before making the finals in both Vegas and Rio.
Also on the bottom side are a couple tough Azeris. Aleksandr Gostiyev is a three-time Euro silver and Murad Suleymanov, a U23 world bronze who has come up several weights since starting as a 66kg back in 2014. Their first round match could decide who will be sent to Kazakhstan.
92kg: J'den Cox
Points at stake - 14
J'den 92kg Dogu bracket pic.twitter.com/9LilmJKQML
— The Wrestling Nomad (@wrestlingnomad) July 12, 2019
J'den already has the top seed sewn up, but the reigning world champ is still out on the mats competing. He opens up with Abubakar Turgayev of Kazakhstan, who does not seem to have competed much lately. His quarter is against Momamed Fardj of Algeria, a 2x JR African champ.
In the semis will be either JR world bronze Erhan Yaylaci of Turkey or U23 world champ Shamil Zubairov of Azerbaijan. The likely finals opponent is Ibrahim Bolukbasi of Turkey, a 2016 Olympian who was third at the Kolov this year.
97kg: Kyle Snyder
Points at stake - 16
Kyle Snyder's 97kg Yasar Dogu bracket pic.twitter.com/ulgqUdp2Fa
— The Wrestling Nomad (@wrestlingnomad) July 12, 2019
This field is chock full of familiar opponents for Kyle Snyder. He opens in the quarterfinals against Baki Sahin of Turkey, who he teched 11-0 in the Kolov semis back in March. Then in the semis comes Pavlo Oliinyk of Hungary. Snyder has beaten the former Ukrainian twice at the world championships, 2-1 in the first round in 2015 and 3-0 in last year's semis.
Possible finals opponents include Aslanbek Alborov (AZE) and Abraham Conyedo Ruano (ITA). Alborov is a two-time defending Dogu champ who is 2-2 all-time against Snyder. Their first meeting Snyder won 2-1 at the 2016 World Cup, while Alborov was victorious 5-4 at the same event a year later. Snyder smashed him 9-2 in the 2017 world semis, and then Alborov won on criteria in last year's Dogu semis.
Conyedo Ruano was a world bronze last year, but Snyder beat him 11-2 in the quarters en route to his fourth straight final.