“But he’s physically superior to everyone else.” “As fighters, we know each other very well,” Yasar said after. In other words, the gap between Sadulaev and his nominal peers couldn’t be more massive. 2 Selim Yasar with his third crack at Sadulaev add in Saturday’s 5–0 loss and the Turk has now been outscored 20–2. Sadulaev has said that he doesn’t much like the label, but. Even in his home province of Dagestan, they call him Ruski Tenk. A bowl-cut hairstyle lends his low-browed head the aspect of a gun-turret. (86 kg.), considered the best pound-for-pound wrestler alive, Sadulaev isn’t called that just because he hasn’t lost in three years.

Though already, at 20 years old and 190 lbs. “It is like wrestling a tank,” said Hungary’s Istvan Vereb, after becoming freestyler Abdulrashid Sadulaev’s first victim in a four-match blitz to a 2016 Olympic gold medal at Carioca Arena Saturday. It was Yankee ingenuity, after all, that cooked up the wondrous nickname, “The Russian Tank,' and no embodiment of fearsome agility, not to mention Putinesque aggression, was better dubbed.

But in one respect the Bear owes America, big time. for its belligerent image, massive doping scandal and frustrating inability to dominate the world. RIO DE JANEIRO - It’s easy, self-serving and-who knows?-perhaps even right for Russia to blame the U.S.

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