According to the Mehr correspondent, at the request of the American Wrestling Federation, which was raised on the sidelines of the 2021 World Championships in Norway, a friendly match between the Iranian and American teams is scheduled to take place on February 14 in Arlington, Dallas, Texas. It has been announced several times before that the composition of the Iranian freestyle wrestling team in the Norwegian world along with Mohammad Hadi Saravi, the 97 kg world wrestling champion, will be the most probable people to be sent to this event, but the people to be sent to the United States Will face changes.
At the 2021 World Cup in Norway, the US and Iranian teams won the second and third titles, respectively, and for this reason, the rivalry of these traditional rivals in Dallas, USA can have its own special attractions for the people of this discipline. Apart from the fights of the first 6 weights, the world and Olympic wrestling celebrities, namely Hassan Yazdani, Kamran Ghasempour, Mojtaba Gleej and Amir Hossein Zare, met with David Taylor, Jayden Cox, Kyle Snyder and Gable Asitoson in the weights of 86, 92, 97, respectively. And 125 kg can increase the sensitivity and charm of this friendly match.
According to US wrestling officials, the match will be held on the Globe Life Field. Where its student teams from Oklahoma and Iowa are among the strongest teams in US universities. Meanwhile, ticket sales for this match have also started and it is expected that all 27,000 tickets for this match will be sold.
“Iran, as one of the traditional powers of freestyle wrestling, has numerous world and Olympic champions,” the US Wrestling Federation website wrote in a report. The friendly competition between Iran and the United States dates back to a few decades ago, and the last time the Iranian team was in the United States was in 2016 at the World Cup in Los Angeles. “Watching US and Iranian wrestling matches has traditionally attracted large crowds in both countries.”
On the other hand, Pejman Dorostkar, the head coach of the Iranian national freestyle wrestling team, who took over the post after the Tokyo Olympics, also announced: “The Iranian team will go to the United States with all its might.”
.