The biggest match-up of the world wrestling championship stayed true to its billing. 74kg Gold medal bout between current world number 1 Frank Chamizo of Italy & reigning world champion Zaurbek Sidakov of Russia had all the masala of Hollywood thriller. The see-saw battle between two champion athletes was a heart-stopper for fans in the arena.
Sidakov is the World Champion again
Though the glamour boy of Italy, Chamizo took the 1 point lead in the round 1, it was defending champion Sidakov who created the move of the bout and scored 2 to take the 2-1 lead. Chamizo was quick to respond and the lead agains exchanged hands as now Italian was leading 3-2. In this see-saw battle, final move was made by the Russian which sealed the deal for Sidakov and made him the world champion once again.
In the bronze medal play-off, despodent looking Jordan BURROUGHS of USA won his seventh world championship medal. Borrough who lost out the semi-finals easily defeated Mao Okui from Japan by technical superiority. But the disappointment of failing in his pursuit of 5th World Championship gold was clearly visible on Burrough’s face.