Robby Smith won his third U.S. Open Greco-Roman title (Photo/John Sachs, Tech-Fall.com)LAS VEGAS - Friday night's U.S. Open Senior Greco-Roman finals saw high-flying action inside the South Point Arena as 10 wrestlers punched their tickets to the World Team Trials best-of-three finals in June.
A rematch of the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials finals, the 130-kilogram gold-medal match was one of the night's most anticipated bouts as Olympian Robby Smith (New York AC) took on 2016 Olympic Team Trials runner-up and 2016 US Open champion Adam Coon (New York AC/MWC) for the 130-kilogram title.
Smith dominated the match, shutting down Coon, who had an impressive run to the finals. Smith, a four-time Senior World Team member, picked up four points in the first period, bullying Coon out of bounds twice and scoring a takedown. Only one more point was scored in the second period, which gave Smith a 5-0 win and his third U.S. Open championship. Smith owns titles from the 2013 and 2014 U.S. Opens.
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Finals results:
55 kg: Max Nowry dec. Sam Hazewinkel, 10-3
60 kg: Dalton Roberts dec. Mike Fuenffinger, 9-8
63 kg: Ryan Mango dec. Sammy Jones, 6-3
67 kg: Ellis Coleman tech. fall Jessy Williams, 10-0
72 kg: RaVaughn Perkins tech. fall Pat Smith, 9-0
77 kg: Kamal Bey tech. fall Peyton Walsh, 8-0
82 kg: Geordan Speiller tech. fall Barrett Stanghill, 8-0
87 kg: Ben Provisor dec. Joe Rau, 14-10
97 kg: Dan Miller dec. Micah Burak, 5-3
130 kg: Robby Smith dec. Adam Coon, 5-0
