You didn’t know who Sanderson is if you did you wouldn’t ask a stupid question like that!!
I know exactly who Sanderson is, I've known about him for years, but you insisted on using the term "his university's coach" as if it was an insult and I wanted to see if you were actually silly enough to use a guy who's been retired for well over a decade and is basically acknowledged as one of the All-Time Greats of amateur wrestling to try and shore up your argument against Bo by getting you to say it out loud.
And, lo and behold, you were.
Horrible example btw cause the talent and legacy difference between Glover and Alex is no where near that of Sanderson and Bo.
Congrats on missing the point. The fact of the matter is that you can't use the accolades of a
retired competitor who happens to serve in a coaching capacity adjacent to Athlete A to come to the conclusion that an entirely separate third party in Athlete B is superior to A. It makes zero fucking sense.
Sanderson is the goat and like I said earlier Bo wasn’t even the best in his own little team. Taylor beat him for the Olympic bid too.
And? What's your point? Sanderson being the GOAT only hurts your argument. Meanwhile, Taylor went on to prove he was the best in the world that same year. Bo beat everyone else at the Trials. You realize that it's possible for Bo to not be as good as the literal best in the world in Taylor and yet still be better than Khamzat who never even made it remotely close that level, right? The two aren't mutually exclusive and in fact the evidence supports it. You're using a non-sequitur to support Khamzat being superior to Bo here.
Being a D1 wrestler doesn’t make you the worlds best at it. Justin G is a D1 wrestler. Yet Most dagestanis would grapple fuck him. Khamzats mma wrestling pedigree is proven to be better. Bo nikals doesn’t even have a statistically significant sample size of mma wrestling success to go off. His amateur accolades are exactly that amatuer. GSP out wrestled all kinda of ncaa greats, no reason to doubt Khamzat toying with nikals too
Show me where I said being a D1 wrestler makes one the world's best wrestler. Bringing up MMA wrestling is a red herring. We're talking about a pure wrestling match contested under freestyle rules. It's cute that you talked about me not knowing anything about the sport of wrestling yet you don't know what the term "amateur wrestling" means.
Khamzat's greatest accomplishments in freestyle wrestling are a bronze medal at the Russian
Junior Nationals and taking gold at the Swedish Nationals, the latter of which are a notorious backwater of freestyle talent compared to their Greco program. He couldn't pin or tech Jack Hermansson, a guy with a Greco background who's been focusing on MMA for years.
Bo, even if we leave aside his NCAA accolades -- not to mention him making it to the finals of the Olympic Trials --- took gold at the US Freestyle National Championships and gold at the U23 Freestyle World Championships (defeating the likes of Tsakulov and Zubairov in the process, teching the former and beating the latter 9-1). These two accomplishments alone are an order of magnitude greater than what Chimaev has accomplished in the realm of freestyle wrestling. Arguing otherwise is pure, unadulterated ignorance. It's possible that Chimaev might have been the real deal on the freestyle circuit had he gotten the opportunity to represent Sweden's national team at the Olympics & World Championships... but it didn't happen. As such, there's no question who the more accomplished pure wrestler is and that's Bo. No one's talking about MMA here.
