AJ Agazarm loses debut

EGDM said:
There's a thread on reddit where they looked it up. He mostly sat on the bench and only had a match or two a year, finishing 0-4 against pretty mediocre competition.

https://www.wrestlestat.com/wrestler/22695/agazarm-aj/profile

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Thanks for looking into it. I saw that 0-4 against mid-level opposition. Im more curious if he accomplished anything of note in High School. Ohio State is the cream of the crop in NCAA wrestling and I imagine you'd have to be pretty decent even to walk on.
 
dsdoubled said:
Im more curious if he accomplished anything of note in High School
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A friend of a friend knows him loosely from high school wrestling (spoiler: AJ was a douche then, too). If I remember, I'll ask if he did anything noteworthy.
 
dsdoubled said:
Any of you guys familiar with his wrestling background? He wound up spending a few seasons on the roster of NCAA DI powerhouse Ohio State but never started and as far as I can tell, he didn't actually wrestle all that much.

Im sure being in that room for a few seasons made him a pretty good wrestler but Im curious how it is he wound up on the team in the 1st place. I cant find anything about any significant high school accolades other than already being a good Bjj guy.
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Anytime he went against somebody who actually knew how to wrestle in Jiu jitsu (Jake Shields,Benson Henderson 2x) he was never able to get the takedown or even close to the takedown. I would of loved to see the Askren match at Polaris if Askren didn’t have to pull out because Agazarm would look like a fish out of water when he realizes that no set up low single from space wouldn’t work.
 
Wrestler160 said:
Anytime he went against somebody who actually knew how to wrestle in Jiu jitsu (Jake Shields,Benson Henderson 2x) he was never able to get the takedown or even close to the takedown. I would of loved to see the Askren match at Polaris if Askren didn’t have to pull out because Agazarm would look like a fish out of water when he realizes that no set up low single from space wouldn’t work.
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Interesting. How has he made his way in the grappling world? What is he good at?
 
EGDM said:
A friend of a friend knows him loosely from high school wrestling (spoiler: AJ was a douche then, too). If I remember, I'll ask if he did anything noteworthy.
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He never did, he walked on at ohio and was just on the practice team. He was never a top wrestler in highachool. Gotta give him credit, geting beat up in the ohio state wrestling room must have been brutal but he toughed it out.
 
Karma is bitch, he should focus only on training hardly and smartly and honing MMA skills and tactics instead of leaving his brain on the social networks.
 
So you can have the "D1 wrestler" status just by being in the team.. even tho you actually never did anything relevant in the sport?

Sorry but I'm not american and what I know about the wrestling sport as it is in the US is just the reflection I get from the general grappling talk and little more.

By the way I've always heard it, I was convinced you actually had to be pretty fucking good to be called a "D1 wrestler".. maybe AJ is the exception? I have an hard time remember him outwrestle even pure jiu jitsu guys.
 
dsdoubled said:
Interesting. How has he made his way in the grappling world? What is he good at?
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He got silver at adcc. AJ specialty is healing from injury when he gets his limbs broken with submissions (which used to happen on a routine basis) he was also resistant to subs in the first place.
 
i find it crazy that he is 40 years old - i thought he was maybe 30
 
nefti said:
He never did, he walked on at ohio and was just on the practice team. He was never a top wrestler in highachool. Gotta give him credit, geting beat up in the ohio state wrestling room must have been brutal but he toughed it out.
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That's what I was thinking. Usually if you are good/tough enough to last in a DI wrestling room for 2-3-4 seasons you improve each year. And then you would have pretty stellar wrestling compared to most of your grappling and/or MMA piers.

He was apparently kicked off the team in 2017 when he was kicked out of a bar, waited outside for the dude he got into the tiff with, and then beat him into reconstructive facial surgery. Oh and the victim was a veteran btw.
 
Solidus Snake said:
So you can have the "D1 wrestler" status just by being in the team.. even tho you actually never did anything relevant in the sport?

Sorry but I'm not american and what I know about the wrestling sport as it is in the US is just the reflection I get from the general grappling talk and little more.

By the way I've always heard it, I was convinced you actually had to be pretty fucking good to be called a "D1 wrestler".. maybe AJ is the exception? I have an hard time remember him outwrestle even pure jiu jitsu guys.
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The vast majority of the time, if you are good enough to make and stay on a DI team, you would come out of college and be able to out-wrestle most of your piers in MMA or grappling. There are always outliers though.
 
Damn, 40 years old! That’s what one website says in his bio. He seems a lot younger. Would have guessed 25.
 
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