ive been a fan for years and i still learned something, but this is also very well explained for people who are just tuning in for the olympics, great video CP!
You can’t tell me that all the cutting weight he did when he was younger And the constant grind of year around wrestling, did not affect his ability to stay healthy. Fingers crossed the senior level, allows him to rebuild his body and stay healthy because I love watching him bang on the mat! I’m impressed with the younger crop of coaches coming up that are starting to stress the importance of rest days. Something most of us growing in the sport had no comprehension of!
Rest days minimize the amount of drugs the kids end up pumping themselves full of. If you train thru injury and don’t rest, those drugs hit all the harder when they take their first hit and then lights out.
Born and raised in Pa. (and starting wrestling in 3rd grade)...I had no idea that I was competing in the most dominant wrestling state in the country until after I graduated high school and moved to another state for college. Whenever I mentioned I wrestled in Pa. I always got a 'that is one tough state for wrestling!' kind of comment. And I'm proud to say I was dominant myself at 105 going 50-0 (that included dual meets and many tournaments) my 9th grade year but then injuries started to pile up once I hit high school which kept me from competing in states my last two years. I had a teammate (who never beat me in a match) finish 2nd in states but had to wrestle one of the most dominant Pa. wrestlers at that time...Jack Cuvo. I did give a kid by the name of Jim Martin all he could handle the 3 times we wrestled...our last match being the most competitive. Jim Martin still holds the Penn State record for most career wins to this day of 8/1/2024. As for Spencer...I have no idea why he decided to go to Iowa instead of Penn State (kinda annoys the hell out of me!) but I'll definitely be rooting for him, and the rest Team USA, in the Olympics.
lee coming back from downfalls and getting into the Olympic team is like the cheap action movies where a secret agent legend coming back from retirement and beating the new boys 😂😂😂😂😂 badass 🔥
Great Video! Great Commentary! rooting for him,... looking the best I've ever seen him since he came to Iowa, and that's saying a lot because he's been so great for so long. hope he keeps it going in Paris. Lets Go!
Spence... I remember you wrestling at FR. It was an Absolute Treat. We're back here in the Pittsburgh suburbs looking forward to seeing you bring that Gold back home. I remember watching you help the younger kids without hesitation. None better Spence 💪
Spencer Lee is phenomenal on top…however…You’ve obviously not watched the late Dave Schultz. When Spencer Lee pins his way through the US Nationals that includes two 3X NCAA CHAMPIONS amongst a half dozen other studs then I’ll entertain your post.
@@JS45678 you’re wrong. Lee turned every opponent he’s had in Sr freestyle, bar none. One match against Nico thie year he didn’t, but he did the other 2. He’s turned every international wrestler all the way back to cadets, except for one in his first year as a cadet. That includes Gilman, Thomasello, Araujo, Richards, lilledahl, Cruz, etc. What’s more, in 104 matches in college, he got back points ( harder than just a turn in freestyle) on all but 4 opponents he faced: Bresser(6 matches into his collleg career, coming off surgery and still hadn’t taken off his redshirt), Suriano, Courtney( with a torn ACL), and Muller( tore an ACL in that match and actually turned him but the clock ran out before he could get a count). That’s it. Only Gene Mills, and Zain close behinet, were near him in par terre in college, not Schultz. In Freestyle, he’s turned everyone( a couple matches, maybe three, without a turn, but every OPPONENT he’s faced he turned). Schultz can’t come close to that, he also lost quite a bit. In a 14 yr career career, he won 1 WC and 1 O gold….lost to someone every other year, including at the Goodwill games and the Pan Ams. Lee has never lost a Sr. freestyle match and hasn’t lost in freestyle at all at his own weight class since he was a first year cadet in 2013!
Spencer Richard Lee (born October 14, 1998) is an American freestyle and former folk style wrestler who competes at 57 kilograms.[2] In freestyle, he is qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics, and has been a Pan American champion, a two-time US National champion and a three-time age-group World champion, once in the U-17 level and twice in the U-20 level.[3] In folk style, Lee won the James E. Sullivan Award and the Dan Hodge Trophy twice, as well as three NCAA Division I national championships out of the University of Iowa. Lee was often considered one of the most dominant athletes in college athletics.
I think he might be the Pound 4 Pound best wrestler in the world. I just hope he doesn't get a bad draw early In the Olympics considering he is unseated.
Having torn 2 acl in the same knee,I can tell ya,what Spencer did is probably unprecedented!A little different for me,as I tore the second time,with in 4 months!I I was a foreman and required little bending- physical,yet I missed over a year of work,tried but it was to much! What he's done is incredible! USA top Olympic wrestler,by getting silver,yet still not satisfied. Think he shuts it down for a year,maybe 2 and returns for Gold in 2028! Whats fantastic for most,doesn't work for him! Hoping he stays at Iowa for his coaching career!
“Excuses are for wusses.” Probably the best par terre/top wrestler of all time. Definitely the best folk styler in the top position of all time. PA proud
2022 you should have said he came back an wrestled after having no ACLs finishing the 2021 season ! Went 3-0 in 1 tournament then decided to take a redshirt he gave a statement saying the pain is just to unbearable
8:20 you said he didn’t get surgery after high school. Then 8:55 you said he got surgery. Did you mean he got his surgery AFTER his first NCAA title his true freshman year?
yeah probably after his first title but we don't know. If everything christian is saying is correct, he threw the word "state" in there, which is weird because it indeed implies he got surgery after high school. Then again christian also mistakenly said "third" ncaa title instead of "fourth," so it's possible he got his words mixed up here too. I'm thinking it was after high school because he looked good against suriano
I’m from Ohio and I’ll respectfully disagree that PA is the state. This region has produced so many studs. My area alone , David carr, Logan stieber, David Taylor, Dave habat, ect
@@michaelmiller4777 I think it varies by the year. Back when I wrestled team Ohio was dominant. It’s evolved and evened out a little more. I still think Ohio has some of the best competition for hs wrestling.
2022 you should have said he came back an wrestled after having no ACLs finishing the 2021 season ! Went 3-0 in 1 tournament then decided to take a redshirt he gave a statement saying the pain is just to unbearable
No question, absolute lights out wrestler, our nation is behind you Spencer Lee , let's get that gold! 🇺🇸
ive been a fan for years and i still learned something, but this is also very well explained for people who are just tuning in for the olympics, great video CP!
Please do NOT abbreviate Christian Pyles 😭
You can’t tell me that all the cutting weight he did when he was younger And the constant grind of year around wrestling, did not affect his ability to stay healthy. Fingers crossed the senior level, allows him to rebuild his body and stay healthy because I love watching him bang on the mat! I’m impressed with the younger crop of coaches coming up that are starting to stress the importance of rest days. Something most of us growing in the sport had no comprehension of!
Woah now, don’t let the old timers hear you talk about rest days. You don’t wanna be called a soft snowflake do you?
He didn't cut a lot of weight, when he was younger. I agree with the rest day comment.
Rest days minimize the amount of drugs the kids end up pumping themselves full of. If you train thru injury and don’t rest, those drugs hit all the harder when they take their first hit and then lights out.
Born and raised in Pa. (and starting wrestling in 3rd grade)...I had no idea that I was competing in the most dominant wrestling state in the country until after I graduated high school and moved to another state for college.
Whenever I mentioned I wrestled in Pa. I always got a 'that is one tough state for wrestling!' kind of comment.
And I'm proud to say I was dominant myself at 105 going 50-0 (that included dual meets and many tournaments) my 9th grade year but then injuries started to pile up once I hit high school which kept me from competing in states my last two years.
I had a teammate (who never beat me in a match) finish 2nd in states but had to wrestle one of the most dominant Pa. wrestlers at that time...Jack Cuvo.
I did give a kid by the name of Jim Martin all he could handle the 3 times we wrestled...our last match being the most competitive. Jim Martin still holds the Penn State record for most career wins to this day of 8/1/2024.
As for Spencer...I have no idea why he decided to go to Iowa instead of Penn State (kinda annoys the hell out of me!) but I'll definitely be rooting for him, and the rest Team USA, in the Olympics.
Who cares?
lee coming back from downfalls and getting into the Olympic team is like the cheap action movies where a secret agent legend coming back from retirement and beating the new boys 😂😂😂😂😂 badass 🔥
These christian commentary vids were def missing the video highlights! This was great
Absolute stud, and it’s awesome seeing him healthy and having fun again, it’s obvious to me his body is not killing him any more. 👍🏼
Great Video! Great Commentary! rooting for him,... looking the best I've ever seen him since he came to Iowa, and that's saying a lot because he's been so great for so long. hope he keeps it going in Paris. Lets Go!
Spence... I remember you wrestling at FR. It was an Absolute Treat. We're back here in the Pittsburgh suburbs looking forward to seeing you bring that Gold back home. I remember watching you help the younger kids without hesitation. None better Spence 💪
One of the greatest wrestlers of all time in Iowa history
Lee is best par terre of all time.
Spencer Lee is phenomenal on top…however…You’ve obviously not watched the late Dave Schultz.
When Spencer Lee pins his way through the US Nationals that includes two 3X NCAA CHAMPIONS amongst a half dozen other studs then I’ll entertain your post.
maybe college too
@@JS45678 you’re wrong. Lee turned every opponent he’s had in Sr freestyle, bar none. One match against Nico thie year he didn’t, but he did the other 2. He’s turned every international wrestler all the way back to cadets, except for one in his first year as a cadet. That includes Gilman, Thomasello, Araujo, Richards, lilledahl, Cruz, etc. What’s more, in 104 matches in college, he got back points ( harder than just a turn in freestyle) on all but 4 opponents he faced: Bresser(6 matches into his collleg career, coming off surgery and still hadn’t taken off his redshirt), Suriano, Courtney( with a torn ACL), and Muller( tore an ACL in that match and actually turned him but the clock ran out before he could get a count). That’s it. Only Gene Mills, and Zain close behinet, were near him in par terre in college, not Schultz. In Freestyle, he’s turned everyone( a couple matches, maybe three, without a turn, but every OPPONENT he’s faced he turned). Schultz can’t come close to that, he also lost quite a bit. In a 14 yr career career, he won 1 WC and 1 O gold….lost to someone every other year, including at the Goodwill games and the Pan Ams. Lee has never lost a Sr. freestyle match and hasn’t lost in freestyle at all at his own weight class since he was a first year cadet in 2013!
He’s an absolute beast since early on.
Great job CP. Spencer will win the Olympics and would’ve of Russia showed up too. LFG Spencer, you’re the best in the world buddy. 🙏🏼
He is none other than the MAN
Great back story for this young man. I hope he brings home Gold.
Spencer Richard Lee (born October 14, 1998) is an American freestyle and former folk style wrestler who competes at 57 kilograms.[2] In freestyle, he is qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics, and has been a Pan American champion, a two-time US National champion and a three-time age-group World champion, once in the U-17 level and twice in the U-20 level.[3]
In folk style, Lee won the James E. Sullivan Award and the Dan Hodge Trophy twice, as well as three NCAA Division I national championships out of the University of Iowa. Lee was often considered one of the most dominant athletes in college athletics.
I think he might be the Pound 4 Pound best wrestler in the world. I just hope he doesn't get a bad draw early In the Olympics considering he is unseated.
Uninjured yeah :)
Some of these guys are just wired differently from ordinary folk. More focused, more driven.
Definitely need more of who is series
Should be considered in the goat conversation
Saw Lee during the US tryouts and was wondering where this rocket came from. Now we know.. First rate podcast.
13:00 How did you botch this? He was going for his 4th, when he lost.
Not his 3rd…
I was thinking the same thing! Like wat?!
@@philipj.sherman2987 yeah he misspoke there but a few seconds later he says 4th
You forgot when he lost at big 10 to seabass I feel like that was an important part of his story no disrespect to Lee
Great video one more match go Spencer get gold
Oh I’m rooting for him to win.
The Par Terre King
Having torn 2 acl in the same knee,I can tell ya,what Spencer did is probably unprecedented!A little different for me,as I tore the second time,with in 4 months!I I was a foreman and required little bending- physical,yet I missed over a year of work,tried but it was to much! What he's done is incredible! USA top Olympic wrestler,by getting silver,yet still not satisfied. Think he shuts it down for a year,maybe 2 and returns for Gold in 2028! Whats fantastic for most,doesn't work for him! Hoping he stays at Iowa for his coaching career!
“Excuses are for wusses.”
Probably the best par terre/top wrestler of all time. Definitely the best folk styler in the top position of all time.
PA proud
Spencer Lee tha goat
The Spencer Freakin’ Lee… Rules
Still crazy to me how Lee ended his last year in College losing to Ramos who didnt even place in this years NCAA's!
His mother is from France so the Olympics is a home game for him.
Great video
2022 you should have said he came back an wrestled after having no ACLs finishing the 2021 season ! Went 3-0 in 1 tournament then decided to take a redshirt he gave a statement saying the pain is just to unbearable
Great jinx Bob
I don’t know spencer lees bio that well…… but did you edit this video at all seems like you mis spoke on a few things
More videos like this 🎉❤
300th Like…
I flipped the LikeOmeter! 😃👍
Let's Go!!!!!!!
Ill be watching
Nice review
Gold Medal
Man Teasdale??? Whatever happened to that kid?
Isnt he a wrestler, from Iowa??.
Never was a surprise for me
Being from Iowa I respectfully disagree about PA being the hub for wrestling. Dan Gable is all I gotta say.
Shane Sparks IS SPENCER LEE!!!
Appreciate the coverage but CP needs to dial it in a bit. Was all over the place, couple of mistakes.
Fuck Yeah! Lets Goooooo!!!!!!
You guys say not many youth wrestlers develop a reputation but you didnt have to wrestle frickin Angel Escobedo..
Fire
Video
**His quest for a 4 ncaa title fail short
Your ability to spell “fell” short.
Try again.
@@floridafan561Nailed it
8:20 you said he didn’t get surgery after high school.
Then 8:55 you said he got surgery. Did you mean he got his surgery AFTER his first NCAA title his true freshman year?
yeah probably after his first title but we don't know. If everything christian is saying is correct, he threw the word "state" in there, which is weird because it indeed implies he got surgery after high school. Then again christian also mistakenly said "third" ncaa title instead of "fourth," so it's possible he got his words mixed up here too. I'm thinking it was after high school because he looked good against suriano
He got surgery after highschool
He has best chance to win gold for USA
Who is he?HE'S A BADASS!!
I’m the Olympic coach from Russia and thank you for the information about your infamous wrestling and now we will be talking that medal from you
Cute. Russia isn't coming (not AIN either).
Since you won’t be at the Olympics, I am assuming that what you mean is after Spencer wins Gold, you will burglarize his home to steal his gold?
One of my friends 😁😂
I’m from Ohio and I’ll respectfully disagree that PA is the state. This region has produced so many studs. My area alone , David carr, Logan stieber, David Taylor, Dave habat, ect
@@Lykitysplit I’m in Ohio too but I’d say PA is better yeah OHIO has a some good ones but I don’t think it compares to what PA as produced
@@michaelmiller4777 I think it varies by the year. Back when I wrestled team Ohio was dominant. It’s evolved and evened out a little more. I still think Ohio has some of the best competition for hs wrestling.
@@Lykitysplit yeah Ohio does have some of the best competition but it’s not better than PA get real !
@@Lykitysplit like I said I wrestled in high school in Ohio
@@michaelmiller4777 what does PA have that Ohio dosent?
He’s my nephew
Spencer Lee vs Lopunny
Haha
funniest thumbnail ever
He be would have been a 4 time NCAA champion if that Covid crap didn’t happen
that's hard to say. That's like saying brooks would've won in 2020. Zahid was there, and there's too many factors to say
@@LakeNonaFan BS it isn’t hard to say it’s easy to say
@@michaelmiller4777 brooks would've won in 2020 too?
@@LakeNonaFan I don’t care about brooks I’m talking Spencer lee
@@michaelmiller4777 intriguing, it was also easy to say spencer was going to win his fourth ncaa title last year
Ups and downs...or injuries
I never doubted he wasn’t a contender! What do you mean maybe he’s got a shot ?? Smh
Who is Spencer Lee?…. A DAWG
are stem cells illegal for ncaa?
Daddy said Spencer sat out of the blood rounds his senior year because he is a bad sport.
So fuck California huh😂.
Bronze medal or won’t medal no other option
Gold is an option
@@Flatstepcreator for Stevan micic yes
@@brydavy spencer would do bad things to micic
@@LakeNonaFan you’ll see
@@brydavy if spencer can take somebody down, he can beat them. Spencer can take micic down. Spencer would work micic
With all you've been through on your long journey you deserve to win dude. Good luck at the Olympics. 🤼♂️
He lost! Sad... such a good guy
great video
2022 you should have said he came back an wrestled after having no ACLs finishing the 2021 season ! Went 3-0 in 1 tournament then decided to take a redshirt he gave a statement saying the pain is just to unbearable