Bob Seidel breaks down annual Beat The Streets Benefit & Final X
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Jason Bryant interviews Bob Seidel about the evolution of Beat the Streets and the upcoming Final X event.
The path to a senior world title is entirely black and white. There is no grey area on an elevated mat inside the Prudential Center—only a best-of-three series that ends with one athlete holding a plane ticket to the World Championships and another left behind in the wrestling room. For decades, the senior level was defined by a specific geography: farm boys from the grain elevators of the Midwest or private school hammers out of New England. On June 19, the sport shifts its entire weight to the concrete of the Tri-State area as Final X pairs elite freestyle with the infrastructure of the country’s largest grassroots wrestling network. NOTE: This was recorded prior to the annoucement that world medalists Real Woods and Kyle Welker have delayed their Final X series matches. Host Jason Bryant sits down with Beat the Streets New York Executive Director Bob Seidel to dissect the structural evolution of an organization that has grown 300% over the last four years. These are not suburban athletes with parents chauffeuring them to private clubs; these are fiercely independent kids taking two-hour subway rides from the outer edges of Queens and Brooklyn just to get a hand-fight in the…
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