We have considered all weight categories of the Olympic Games in freestyle wrestling, and only heavyweights up to 125 kg are left, from which we can see a real fight for gold.
In this weight class there is a fierce struggle between several wrestlers, in each year - different people win, and this proves the fact that in this weight class there is no definite leader, who can be put on the first place.
The reigning Olympic champion, Gable Stevenson, will not be competing at the Olympics. He did not participate in the qualifying tournament for a spot on the U.S. National Team because of his contract with WWE. In his place, Mason Parris will go to the Olympics.
Amir Hossein Zare (Iran) is one of the main leaders of this weight, current World Champion, bronze medalist of the Tokyo Olympics, and definitely one of the strongest wrestlers from whom we can expect a lot.
Geno Petriashvili (Georgia) - The 30-year-old Georgian is still able to show his strength on the international stage. He is the reigning silver medalist of the World Championship and Olympic Games. There are tournaments where Geno shows a very good fight, and there are tournaments where he can lose in important stages of the tournament because of one mistake.
Taha Akgul (Turkey) is the current bronze medalist of the World Championship, European champion and bronze medalist of the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Also on par with Geno Petriashvili and Amir Hossein Zare, but no one can predict who will be stronger on this day. Maybe Akgul will turn on and beat everyone like he did at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Mason Parris (USA) - Entering the race for Olympic gold is Mason Parris, who has started to stand out in the last year, becoming a world bronze medalist, Pan American Games gold medalist, and winning the last ranking tournament in Budapest, which proves that the American is a worthy opponent. He defeated Geno's Kazakh offender, Yusup Batirmurzaev, in Budapest, putting him on two blades. The 24-year-old talent will head to Paris with a good chance to send the old-timers into retirement and start a new era in the 125 kg weight class.
At the Olympic Games we will also see a Dagestani, Abdulla Kurbanov, who won the pre-Olympic Russian Championships and has successfully written his name in the Russian national team. He's only 22, so age will play a role for him.
Amir Hossein Zare (Iran) is the reigning World Champion (2023) and bronze medalist at the Tokyo Olympics.
Geno Petriashvili (Georgia) - reigning World Championship and Olympic silver medalist
Taha Akgul (Turkey) - 10-time European Champion, current bronze medalist of the World Championship and Olympic Games.
Mason Parris (USA) - reigning bronze medalist of the World Championship, winner of the Pan-American Championship.
Abdulla Kurbanov (AIN, Russia) - bronze medalist of the U23 World Championship
Jonovan Smith (Puerto Rico)
Amarvir Dhesi (Canada)
Ashton Mutuwa (Nigeria)
Diaeldin Abdelmottaleb (Egypt)
Dzianis Khramiankou (AIN, Belarus)
George Meshvildishvili (Azerbaijan)
Lhagvagerel Munkhtur (Mongolia)
Yusup Batirmurzaev (Kazakhstan)
Ayaal Lazarev (Kyrgyzstan)
Zhiwei Deng (China)
Daniel Ligeti (Hungary).
