John Smith v. Tom Brands 1991 US Open

John Smith takes on Tom Brands at the 1991 US Open.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Freestyle
• wrestling
• Smith
• Brands
• Oklahoma
• Iowa

[jurom7]

Tom is not a more successful coach. John Smith has coached more National Champions, All-Americans, Team National Champions, Olympic and World Team members. Not be mean but are you clueless or have you been invovled in wrestling for only two years.

[bman546]

Smith has won 5 NCAA titles in 18 seasons at Oklahoma State. Brands has 6 years of head coaching experience. Brands has won 3 NCAA titles in 6 years as a coach.

At the time of this match, Brands had just completed his senior season in college wrestling. He certainly had not been training or competing in freestyle with much consistency. Not to take anything from Smith, but these two great Olympic Champions never saw each other when both were in their prime.

[bigbirdgrappler60]

@jurom7 5 titles in 18 years? yeah brands has 3 in less then half the years i will give smith the fact that for a portion of his career he was competeing against gable but still brands has 12 years less expierence yet turned virgina tech into a solid team and brought iowa back to a consistent contender even in a off year nd the last 2 years theyve tied or gone to creiteria meaning neither coach really is better then the other if they both get their wrestlers riled up like that

[FraldinhoBJJ]

@triumph3dx lmao. that announcer was pissed.

[dbfan2scfan]

jeez smith took it to him.

[mmarion8979]

@jurom7 and smith has been a coach longer too.... a head coach

[lenford10]

240p..... we meet again

[mnight207]

IM a fan of Smiths. I dont care for tom too much but to say he sucks is way outta line. Lets see you make it to the olympics in anything. better yet, go wrestle Smith right now and see if he doesnt whoop that ass

[allie1love]

@triumph3dx lol, I'll ask him and let you know.

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[Kuzma567]

@karsseboomh22 really brand can't touch that? Brands won a gold in 1996 so yeah he can touch that a little bit. Smith may be better but Brands is no slouch.

[smith521]

You guys are forgetting that Brands was still a young college wrestler here, while Smith was already an Olympian and international competitor. At this time, yeah Smith outclassed him with his experience. This match may have been different if it happened in 1996 when Brands caught up to Smith's level of experience. Either way, both are two of the best of all time. I don't understand why people have to say one is the best and the other sucks.