Mark Bader gives an update on Ben's current situation from going into the hospital in Nevada, to getting transported back to Wisconsin and eventually getting on the transplant list. It's time for the wrestling community to rally around a man who has given so much to this sport. DONATE - https://t.co/IAfq4TwPM0 Rudis Shirts | All proceeds go to medical and transplant costs - https://t.co/CaYDn0Fkh7 0:55 - Going into the hospital in Nevada 8:00 - Transport flight 10:20 - Wisconsin hospital 12:25 -...
Jun 24, 2025•33 min
Vito Arujau won a world title in 2023 and was bronze in 2024 at 61kg. He will wrestle Jax Forrest in a delayed Final X wrestle-off on July 14 in Fargo, ND. 1:00 - Vito’s reaction to Final X results 5:55 - Long layoff since 2024 World Championships 9:15 - Delaying Final X series with Jax Forrest 12:55 - Being the hunter vs hunted 16:10 - Preparing for Jax Forrest 18:50 - Training with Anthony Knox 20:00 - Masanosuke Ono 26:00 - Trying to win second NCAA title and now second World title Learn more...
Jun 17, 2025•34 min
Jax Forrest recently won the US Open in the men's senior division as just a junior in high school. He will wrestle Vito Arujau in a best of three series on July 14 with the winner to represent the United States at the World Championships this fall. 0:30 - Started wrestling at 5 years old 1:40 - Jax called his own pin 2:40 - Relationship with dad hooked him on wrestling 5:30 - How does Jax develop so quickly? 7:30 - Wrestling at restaurants and odd places 8:30 - Bishop McCort 10:20 - College recr...
Jun 10, 2025•47 min
Trent Hidlay was a 2x NCAA runner-up for NC State. In April he won the US Open at 92kg and will be wrestling Josh Barr at Final X. 1:30 - Becoming a wrestling commentator 5:10 - Being a wrestler vs being a fan of wrestling 6:45 - A lot more free time with wrestling freestyle full time 9:45 - Trent likes freestyle better 12:15 - You can’t just gas out the foreigners 13:45 - Wrestling with emotion 15:20 - It’s cool care so much you give your max effort 17:35 - Trent needs to lay off the intensity ...
May 28, 2025•55 min
Yianni Diakomihalis is a 4x NCAA Champion from Cornell, he was a 2022 World Silver medalist and will be wrestling PJ Duke at Final X on June 14, 2025. 1:00 - Yianni’s dad has coached him forever 3:05 - Dad fell ill Yianni's senior year of college 8:40 - Toughest parts of dad being sick 12:35 - 2024 Olympic Trials and weight issues 16:10 - Did Yianni consider retiring? 20:00 - Bumping up to 70kg 23:05 - PSA about the advantage/disadvantages of cutting weight 27:27 - Takatani told Yianni “I just d...
May 20, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Nahshon Garrett didn't start wrestling until high school and was a 4x All-American and NCAA Champion for Cornell. in 2018 he won Final X at 61kg and just recently announced his retirement from the sport. 1:20 - Early career 2:40 - 103 pound Nahshon match video 5:40 - Expectations and confidence 8:50 - Wrestling at Beat The Streets in 2014 11:50 - Nahshon’s FloFilm 18:00 - Becoming an NCAA Champion 24:15 - 2018 Final X vs Joe Colon 31:20 - What will Nahshon chase next? 33:50 - Going to finally li...
May 07, 2025•1 hr 28 min
Nico Megaludis was a 4x All-American and NCAA Champion at Penn State. He went on to have a solid senior level career and just retired after the US Open last weekend. 0:55 - Feeling of retirement 1:55 - Nico’s first match ever 5:00 - Nico’s amazing coaching and training situations 10:00 - Cael to PSU caught Nico’s eye 13:50 - Cael’s “cheesy” daily speech, are actually meaningful 17:55 - The year Penn State red shirted everyone 21:50 - Pressure of never having won it going into senior year 26:20 -...
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Iowa's Kennedy Blades names Women's College Wrestler of the Year! 2:05 - The 8 finalists for Women’s College Wrestler of the Year 3:00 - And the winner is….. Kennedy Blades, University of Iowa 4:25 - Kennedy’s reaction to winning 6:40 - Going from Olympics to college 8:50 - Kylie Welker from rival to teammate 11:30 - Decision to go down to 68kg 16:30 - Traveling with college team vs traveling internationally 18:40 - Iowa coaching influences 22:00 - Being a role model 24:30 - Kennedy Blades’ all-...
Apr 30, 2025•31 min
Vince Robinson won an NCAA title as a freshman at NC State #thebadershow 0:30 - Transfer Portal News! 1:50 - Harvey Twisters 5:48 - Getting hooked on wrestling 8:15 - Losing state finals in 9th grade 11:15 - Harvey Twisters can change lives 13:30 - Recruiting to NC State 16:00 - Adjusting to college life 17:30 - Two T-bone steaks before U23, whoops! 21:00 - Expectations for start of last season 24:00 - 2025 NCAA Championships 29:00 - Winning semifinals then cutting weight 32:15 - Wrestling Troy ...
Apr 30, 2025•51 min
Wyatt Hendrickson just upset Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson in the NCAA finals. It was one of the greatest upsets in NCAA history. 1:15 - Shaved the mustache 2:15 - 2022 NCAAs, over confident 6:20 - 2023 NCAAs 8:48 - Rate of improvement in a world class program 10:50 - Roles have reversed vs Coach Taylor 12:20 - Controlled chaos 14:40 - Zero focus on Gable or Kerkvliet 17:00 - Being an “iPad kid” ignoring the environment 19:00 - Approach for Gable and Kerkvliet 20:50 - Wyatt during Hamiti’...
Mar 26, 2025•47 min
Sammy Sasso recently retired from college wrestling. He was a 2x NCAA runner up for Ohio State who suffered a gunshot wound in 2023. He made a comeback this season but wasn't able to get back to his prime form. 1:10 - Back in the wrestling room 2:30 - Progression from PT to wrestling 5:30 - The nerve damage was the toughest part 7:45 - Belief he will be back 10:25 - Getting back in the Buckeye line up 11:45 - Deciding to hang it up 13:38 - Freestyle in the future? 17:05 - Having good perspective...
Mar 13, 2025•37 min
2x NCAA Champion and U20 World Champion David Carr joins the show after his recent win over reigning Olympic silver medalist Daichi Takatani of Japan. 1:58 - Nate Carr story 5:35 - First NCAA’s as a fan 6:30 - 1st NCAA Championships 9:50 - Target on back, being scouted 11:55 - Adversity presents you to yourself 13:03 - The Keegan O’Toole rivalry 23:40 - Freestyle only focus now 26:45 - Prepping for Takatani 27:45 - David Carr vs Daichi Takatani 38:15 - US Open and beyond 39:20 - All-time favorit...
Mar 04, 2025•45 min
2022 World Team member and 2018 NCAA Champion Seth Gross joins the show to talk about his upcoming match against Austin DeSanto at FloWrestling Night In America on February 26. 1:50 - Seth Gross update, Mat Pack wrestling club 4:30 - Teaching new kids vs college kids 8:36 - Seth’s unorthodox style 11:40 - Seth’s training, like mma fight camp 14:05 - College vs senior level, patience 19:15 - Austin DeSanto 21:10 - Watching 2023 vs DeSanto 32:00 - Lee vs Ono 35:40 - Injury right before 2024 Olympi...
Feb 18, 2025•41 min
In the fifth episode of The Dual we start with the Hawkeyes finally pulling even with Iowa State for the first time all dual, knotted 16-16. It all comes down to heavyweight where Heropoulos of Iowa State is up from 190 and Iowa's Sidlinger is just coming off of a football bowl game for the Hawkeyes. Winner take all with the dual meet on the line! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 18, 2025•36 min
Austin Gomez was an All-American at Wisconsin, and NCAA runner-up and Michigan and wrestled in the Olympics for Mexico. He joins the show to talk about his transition to Mexico, beating Nick Lee at the Olympic Qualifier and his upcoming bout with Bryce Andonian at FloWrestling Night In America. 1:15 - Wrestling for Mexico 6:00 - RBY and Team Mexico 7:47 - First Olympic memories & Olympic qualifier 15:46 - Nick Lee match 26:56 - Olympic Experience 31:10 - Gomez will wrestle Bryce Andonian on ...
Feb 11, 2025•40 min
Bader and Reid dive back into the series as things start to heat up in the dual meet. We get some background on so many of the wrestlers who grew up competing and training together in the Iowa wrestling circuit. Many of them became friends in little league and remain close to this day. On the mat, Iowa State lead Iowa 16-5 but Iowa had big hitters taking to the mat in Marty Kistler, Ricco Chiapparelli and Duane Goldman who all won at least one NCAA title for the Hawkeyes. On the other side for I...
Feb 10, 2025•26 min
Former head coach at Iowa State Jim Gibbons and 2x NCAA Champion for the Iowa Hawkeyes Royce Alger are in studio guests to give first hand accounts of all the action and drama that went down on that fateful night in 1986 in one of the most epic dual meets to ever take place! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 04, 2025•1 hr 10 min
We get into the second episode where Iowa State has a 6-0 lead in the team score after a big upset pin of the Hawkeyes at 118. This episodes dives deep into 126, 134 and 142. A big match at 126 between Brad Penrith of Iowa and Bill Kelly keeps the excitement of the meet going. Gable lays the hammer down as he makes a couple of his wrestlers run the arena stairs after losing. We get into two matches with the Gibbons brothers competing with controversial calls in both. Current Iowa State head coac...
Feb 03, 2025•34 min
#1 Iowa vs #2 Iowa State in 1986 is one of the most epic and legendary dual meets of all time. THE DUAL is a 6 part series that dives deep this dual meet. Flo's Mark Bader and Reid Connell sit down to talk about episode one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 30, 2025•26 min
2x NCAA All-American from Nebraska Ridge Lovett joins the show on the heels of a big major decision win over Penn State's Shayne Van Ness. 0:45 - Starting at Team real life & getting hooked 4:15 - Setting lofty goals from a young age 6:30 - Getting recruited while at Cadet Worlds 10:00 - Jordan Burroughs and James Green 12:10 - Mentality and progression 14:15 - Holding back 16:45 - Optimal level or arousal 18:00 - Big win over Penn State’s Van Ness 20:40 - Caleb Henson 22:45 - Nebraska coach...
Jan 28, 2025•37 min
Bo Bassett joins the show to talk about the personal brand he has grown and the public recruiting process he is going through. 1:02 - Building a brand via social media 4:21 - Hiccup during mindset webinar 6:00 - The recruiting process and graphics 10:30 - Recruiting trips 14:30 - Making cuts to the recruiting list 16:20 - Learning business 17:30 - Posting and accountability 19:30 - Timeline on picking a college 22:35 - Bishop McCort vs Faith Christian potential meeting 27:15 - Bo Bassett's Mt. R...
Jan 21, 2025•40 min
Alex Clemsen is the head coach at University of Maryland and they just had their biggest win under his leadership last weekend knocking off #10 Michigan. 1:30 - The belief and vision in Maryland 5:20 - Light bulbs went off at Tuesday practice 7:55 - Breaking down the Michigan dual 11:40 - Concede the tech falll 14:40 - Celebrating a big win 17:50 - Clemson’s exchange Casey Cunningham 22:11 - Impact of NIL and transfer portal 24:23 - All-time favorite wrestler 26:30 - Sweat it out 29:35 - Get out...
Jan 14, 2025•35 min
Meyer Shapiro is a U20 World gold medalist and NCAA All-American from Cornell. He joins the show to chat about his journey through wrestling, his U20 world title and his run at the 2024 NCAA Championships as a freshman. 1:00 - Getting hooked, learning levels to this 6:27 - High School and Wyoming Seminary 11:03 - Recruiting unraveled fast 16:11 - Folkstyle or freestyle 19:00 - U20 World finals 30:15 - Transitive property 30:45 - Concussions 37:49 - Wrestling back to third place at NCAAs 52:32 - ...
Jan 07, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Olympic Gold medalist, 2x NCAA Champion and 2x Hodge Trophy winner Gable Steveson joins the show to chat about WWE, NFL, his return to college wrestling and more. 0:01 - 2023 Final X but not worlds 0:02 - The WWE 0:04 - WWE training 0:09 - Football 0:16 - Comparing WWE, Football and Wrestling 0:19 - College wrestling 0:23 - Progressing back to optimal wrestling 0:29 - Freestyle wrestling 0:33 - MMA 0:35 - Conditioning 0:41 - Drive to be great Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...
Dec 10, 2024•47 min
Wyatt was a 2x NCAA 3rd place finisher at Air Force Academy. After graduating from AFA he transferred to Oklahoma State where he is wrestling for David Taylor. 0:01 - Hunting and training 0:03 - Getting hurt in the world finals 0:07 - Special exemption to transfer 0:12 - Recruiting process , only original visit was OSU 0:14 - Rumors about DT 0:15 - Wyatt wanted to quit in 8th grade 0:20 - Adjustment period 0:23 - Everything is built around wrestling 0:24 - DT training to be the best in the world...
Dec 03, 2024•1 hr 10 min
Chance Marsteller joins the show one day after his FloFilm, CHANCE, premiered worldwide. 0:01 - The response to the film 0:03 - Helping at least one person 0:06 - Go through this so others don't have to 0:13 - Asking for help 0:17 - Stuffing down his trauma 0:20 - Favorite FloFilm 0:24 - Can you make it back? 0:28 - Getting clean 0:33 - How to handle this with his kids 0:38 - Public speaking opportunities 0:41 - Wife’s view of the film and process Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...
Dec 02, 2024•52 min
Lock Haven head coach Scott Moore joins the show to talk about his own career, Chance Marsteller and coaching at Lock Haven. 0:01 - Growing up wrestling in PA 0:04 - Going to Penn State 0:10 - Prolific pinner 0:15 - 51-1, 34 pins 0:20 - Interim head coach at Lock Haven 0:25 - Chance Marsteller 0:36 - Chance seemed done 0:40 - Chance as a coach 0:47 - Final word Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 13, 2024•52 min
Reece Humphrey is a 3x World Team member and current coach at Princeton and the NJRTC. 0:01 - The Genre podcast and music 0:03 - U23 world championships 0:08 - Jordan Burroughs 0:14 - Japan’s Ono 0:18 - Coaching coaches 0:28 - Upcoming Chance Marsteller film Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 06, 2024•44 min
2024 Olympic gold medalist Amit Elor joins the show. 0:01 - Life changes 0:06 - WWE 0:09 - Olympic process 0:11 - Burnout 0:17 - Rising to the occasion 0:21 - Olympics vs Worlds 0:30 - Paris weight cut 0:33 - Winning gold 0:48 - Paris was happiest two weeks of her life 0:50 - FloFilm about Amit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 23, 2024•56 min
Jason Nolf, 3x NCAA Champion from Penn State, moved to Texas and joins Bader in the studio to unpack a bunch of topics. 0:02 - Moving to Texas, bjj, business and Nolfpack 0:08 - 11th grade Jason Nolf interview 0:17 - Loving being in the wrestling room 0:22 - Different types of wrestling training 0:25 - Wrestling to get better vs wrestling to win 0:30 - Nolf liked folkstyle more 0:33 - Hayden Hidlay NCAA semifinal 0:38 - Beating Jordan Burroughs at the Trials 0:46 - Dake joining the NLWC 0:51 - F...
Oct 16, 2024•1 hr 12 min
