Nick Suriano vs. Daton Fix: FULL 2019 NCAA Championship match at 133 pounds 

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Lmfao!!!! shot down

Announcer: Did you thank the ref for the gift? Nick: Of course. Without him stopping the match I would have lost!

John Fluker it’s like UFC octagon interviews lol

Nah u should really see Sebastian Rivera’s answer. The big 10 champ interviewer was like how did u do that move?! And sebas just screamed NEW JERSEEYY

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It did not disappoint.

Nick should of lost

Probably his win against Daton fix at who’s #1 was more suspenseful since it was like 35 minutes

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I remember watching this on tv live back in college my freshman year. We had about 20 or so people that lived on the same floor as me in the room with popcorn and going crazy with watching this match. Definitely was one of the best matches I have seen suspensefulwise in a long time.

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That stalling bullshit needs to be taken out of the tournament. Fix isnt even a good wrestler hes just built like a brick and string as fk

@@davidgutierrez4606 he took 2nd at NCAA so I’m pretty sure he is a good wrestler

@@davidgutierrez4606 if anyones a bad wrestler it’s you to be honest with u

@@bakersdozen5265 homie you have no idea who the fuck I am hahaha. Ranked #6 in California in 2005-07. I made CIF finals every year starting from my freshman year in HS. Had 3, 15 seconds pins of dudes ranked in the top 10. Finished 3rd in the brute invitational with 52 other teams. I'm A FUCKING BEAST AT 145LBS. Send me your location and I'll show you who's daddy

Y J kinda like Anthony Joshua

He even ran away when he lost

He’s got the Floyd Mayweather Jr. disease. When in doubt…run…run away.

@@crispcaddy3064 only time he was explosive in the match

@@seealexrun7649 hahaha

Was about to make the same comment. What a travesty that would have been if Fix had won.

Also gotta love how he was looking for the easy win again with the headgear shit. Fix stopped wresting to point to his headgear causing him to get taken down. Always keep wresting no matter what. Simple fundamental stuff cost him the win.

@@Juan-md5fb like you said, its basic fundamentals to keep wrestling until the ref stops you ALWAYS, day 1 stuff. Fix learned the hard way on the biggest stage.

@@treis531 I'm definitely going to watch some of it but I can't even lie to you bro, I still don't really know the rules and I've never been into wrestling so I'm not gonna sit here and say that I will start following it just being honest. But I can say that it has definitely peaked my interest and I will watch it from time to time.

Dwayne Jones watching and participating in the sport is an extremely gigantic difference

@@beneastman9252 well of course. I love watching basketball but it's just a different feeling being out there and actually balling on people lol

@@DwayneIsKing you still watch?

@@keyboard2758 lol tbh no. I've been trying to try out new sports to watch that I don't really watch and now the new thing I'm hooked on is hockey lol. And I can say that hockey is probably the first sport outside of the usual 3 that I usually watch (basketball, football, baseball) to actually catch my attention and now I'm really interested in it haha. Now I'm just learning the names of players and stuff. They are A LOT harder than these basketball and football names 😂

Trying to win via foul points…lol! Got his ass handed to him in the end.

PDX LockPicker they lose water weight right before weigh in then rehydrate after

PDX LockPicker yeah seriously they’ve gotta be like 5’6 or something tops

Crazy to think he was 125 the year before

finn bell not true, he weighs 138 walking around, I’ve met him. He’s not that big

finn bell I met him at the Fullerton wrestling camp in California(2019) and he weighed in after lunch at 142.1 with clothes on

He attempted more actual shots and not fakes thank suriano

Cap

He’s a steroid criminal cheat

Especially for the damn championship

As the announcer said, John Smith used his last challenge for hands to the face earlier in the match and lost it, so even if it should have been hands to the face he had to keep wrestling until he heard a whistle

Zayne simard moore no he won’t, he put his Olympic red shirt in. He can’t compete this season

He was whining before that point due to the reset from down position. That's why he gave up the escape in the first place due to not having a good grip on the whistle.

he wouldve got the slide by if suriano hadnt grabbed his headgear

Your coach should tell yu that at the level id assume you’re at, but these guys have the right too they’re actually wrestling for something with great value..

@@guuki9641 True. HS is a bit different.

@@guuki9641 I only ever cared about watching the section/district and State champ wrestlers wrestle each other. Those were the only ones where I learned.

@baller128k You don't watch sports for shit huh? Any sport on this high of a level is very technical and will get called out. That's how pro level sports work 😂. If you don't like it go watch something else.

For real such a chump move.

You know...you are probably correct in your assessment.

That what I was thinking looking back he did grab his headgear but fix shoulda kept wrestling

You are so bald hahahaha

yeah I though the same thing, and the hands eyes call

Honestly the big reason he got taken down wasn’t even bc of the headgear it was bc he stood up to start talking

I didn't see Fix go for a takedown the entire time.

@@mike203203 he went for one.

They wanted him to win. Should have had multiple stalling calls the entire crowd was booing so loudly. John Smith is a force and the refs did not want him against them.

because Suriano was not taking shots. you can't just be pushing your opponent to the edge expecting a stall call. Fix was attempting to circle in while Suriano was cutting off his ability to do so, which per the rule book, could have been called stalling on Suriano. Once Suriano took a shot, Fix was called for stalling.

Fix can't say he did ANYTHING offensive. He was just waiting to counter. Call the damn stall

@@michaelhayes6209 he's always wrestled like that man even in middle school lol just most of the time it works.

Michael Hayes what match did you watch? Neither wrestler attacked much yet Suriano dominated the mat positioning keeping Fix backing up and his back to the outside of the mat. Stalling Fix.

Cap

Man 133s was insane that year 😂😭 man I love this match

The sequence of that -> whiny Smith -> suriano jus standing with his arms out is great haha

I agree. But with so much at stake the wrestlers can lock up.

And grabbing headgear to prevent a takedown also helps.

These are young college kids

K, not that young! Jden cox went to the world championships at 19. Kyle Snyder world championships and Olympics around the same age 19 &20. These guys are .. 20?? And stalling is stalling.. goal should always be to improve

You’re joking right? A few weeks after this Suriano beat Joe colon, our USA team representative, and world bronze medalist. Dayton fix then went on to make the world team this year, beating Gilman. You have no clue what you’re talking about my man. Go watch women’s soccer.

@@michaelhayes6209 that doesn't change anything I said at all lol your anecdotes are irrelevant to the facts

@@allyyana9663 colon and gilman are no takahashi yuki, aliyev, rashidov, uguev etc.

Emmanuel Oni definitely not during the season, maybe they get that big during off season but doubt it cause they’re in freestyle too, I’d guess 145 during the season, any more than that would be too much to cut sometimes 2-3 times a week

@@HamsterCatLionn not even 145, they definitely probably walk around between 133-141. 12 lbs is too much weight to cut and perform well at the collegiate level

@@cornprices1718 man speaks truth, Suriano I know for a fact walks around at 141-142. People think wrestlers are cutting weight like mma fighters and its far from true. Collegiate wrestlers cut weight sometimes twice a week and its just not feasible on there bodies.

@@caseyjones38 yeah, the most i ever cut was 15 and that was throughout the course of a month

Dood the funny thing is is that right after that match I saw Ben Akron and was like dood that was a hard lost u just took and then he said I'm not daton fix

Cut YT 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I don’t believe this man

good luck bro. i remember my first match and i got completely destroyed, went over to the corner and cried. so don't sweat it too hard no matter what happens. the only thing that matters is to keep improving afterwards. hope you do well!

Bruh my first is on November 27th ;-;

@@xtra_sauc nice good luck! what state r u wrestling in?

Trust your training, trust your conditioning, and let it fly. Good luck buddy!!

My first ever match was in 8th grade in a tournament. I was nervous as hell, but I just let go of the outcome and trusted myself. What happened next was that I not only pinned just my first ever opponent in my first ever match, but take gold that tournament and go undefeated. In my first ever wrestling season. If you put trust in yourself and the work you put in, anything great can happen. Trust me.

At one point it looked like Suriano had grabbed it for a split second but it definitely wasn’t intentional & Fix shouldn’t have stopped wrestling to point. If he didn’t have all that hair he may have been able to get the call but I definitely don’t think the call was there. It’s gonna be fun watching them wrestle in the future tho for sure.

Still fix got screwed, he had double boots in, and he’s suppose to ride out, that is the goal and they call stalemate

Avrg Mav He didn’t get screwed, he wasn’t trying to improve or get points and was just holding on. That’s exactly what the refs are trained to call stalemates in those circumstances.

@@Mitzpieler You've never wrestled in college and it shows. It's called a ride out, in college you are rewarded riding points and in ot the objective is to stay on top. in high school it would be a fair call but not in college.

@@avrgmav2243 as college wrestler, you also know the how inconsistent refs are...

They gave him the warning, but it should have been a full point

Thanks for watching!

i mean to be fair the head gear was grabbed and its not his fault the NCAA made the stupid hands to the face rule then decided not to call it in this match. Any good coach would do the same thing and would do anything to ensure their athletes success especially in the NCAA finals when you know the match would only come down to a point or two. Why wouldn't you take the shot to get those few points that could have decided the match? That's a winning mentality and just goes to show how much he cares about his team, his athletes, and the sport of wrestling.

It is called being a good coach not a weasel.

@@tropicalterrarium1742 begging for every call, going over to the other coaches corner... WEASEL

@@adezii1397 Greatest wrestler, coach Usa's history. I bet you havent won shit in wrestling, yet alone 2 olympic golds lol.

Looked like a dog searching for the ball that was never thrown lol

This comment did not age well

it's embarrassing, i'd rather miss an open field goal to win the super bowl, than to have people see me lose in the ncaa finals because i was pointing to my headgear instead of defending a shot.

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He was literally #1 hs wrestler in the nation for years..... and it wasn’t all technicalities 😂

David /Pappy Suriano and Lee were both more rated than Fix. Nick is a 4 time undefeated state champ in NJ and Oklahoma high school wrestling isent even in the same league.

Good luck man, there’s always programs you can do before then

@@doublewidesurprise6016 There's also judo. I did judo before wrestling, and then found freestyle suited my style of wrestling and the grappling I was used to in judo was similar to in freestyle wrestling. Freestyle is definitely better, in my book, than folkstyle. Don't get me wrong, I love it at the more competitive levels, like State and college levels, but I can't stand it for regular HS and college wrestlers. It's too boring.

It's a good one!

Trash

and yet he called himself a late bloomer HA!

Fix was 168-0 in Oklahoma. But he still has not attained a title in the NCAA

LMAO!!! Suriano is a serial QUITTER! He quit Penn State under Cael Sanderson after his 3rd loss! He quit the super32 in high school after he lost. He quit the Olympic trials after he lost and wouldn't even wrestle his consolation matches! He quit Rutgers... If he had stayed at Penn State he could have been a 3X NCAA champion. Now he will leave college with one MCAA title and that was a gift from the ref that stopped the regulation match with 9 seconds left on the clock. Strength and stamina - Nick wins - skill and technique he gets beat EVERY time!

James Chapman he grabbed the headgear but he definitely wasn’t pulling on it. He stiff armed the guy and just had the head gear in his hand.

@@nkyryry That's still illegal lol, you can't use headgear to improve control of your opponent's head

@@alexmiller1018, I mean if your not pulling on it, there’s no extra advantage so no change in control really

Dont stall either like fix does

Same lol

Not if you're completely a demigod at folkstyle. I was good at folkstyle, but I realized I was so much better at judo, and I could actually try and get a submission on someone without fear of giving up back points. I don't hate on wrestlers or wrestling, but I have met very disrespectful, overly confident wrestlers. We don't typically see it at the higher levels but we did in my HS team.

If you have a national title on the line why try and win off a violation? Fix literally stops mid takedown and starts complaining he was pulling his head gear. Sorry but him and his coach always try to win off a technicality.

They just stole away fix victory. Shameful!