There's training wrestling shape and then there's competitive wrestling shape I would kind of describe those and the competitive wrestling shape

The only way to get back into competition you know shape is to compete.

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Gabe Dean is our guest today.

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came out of retirement so we talk about his return to the mat and his motivations for

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Gabe Dean I got to say one of the most memorable parts of our last conversation was the time you were talking about you and your brother and how it was your first year coaching and how you had maybe been too hard on them and then that was kind of a turning point for you to become a selfless coach. But now we're back in that selfish

mindset. You're back on the met. Tell me about this crazy transition, how we got to this point.

Well, I, uh, about a month ago, I got a DM from Mike Mao from flow. It's like, hey, if we put something together for an

ain't man bracket, would you be interested? I was thinking to myself, you know, I just did the thing with

Dake and went through the whole Chamizzo thing and I thought that was really neat and what

wrestling is kind of evolving to give the circumstances right now.

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