Buvaisar Saitiev...enough said. : Speakers & Interviews

Nice interview, asking the best!!

Invincible :)

Izzy is the man haha

chechnya warrior

i'd like to know what his height is to

Does anyone know how tall he is???

bad ass, enough said.

Best ever.

Buvaisar Saitiev - Wrestler - Filosof

Absolutely the best freestyle wrestler ever. No question.

Saitiev makes 2 quotes abut Slay I find ridiculous:

1. "I let this person take me down in the second round"
Does that make sense to ANYBODY? Saitiev has never "Let" anyone take him down. Also, is was not in the 2nd round, but 27 seconds into overtime.
2. "I think he shouldn't have been in the Olympics at all"
Again, what is he talking about?? How can anyone say that a wrestler who can beat Saitiev, let alone 4-5 other Olympic grade wrestlers shouldn't be in the Olympics??
The guy definitely has some pride issues...

We love you who live chechens from turkey our brother buvaysar.

Great air, great food, good genetics, and a love for wrestling!

This man is a legend already. Best wishes to him and the rest of Russia...

He's The Best....one time Olympic Champion....OK....BUT three-times gold medalist in freestyle...The Soviet Union’s Alexander Medved was the only previous three-times gold medalist in freestyle wrestling after he won the first place in 1964, 1986 and 1972.

.......That Slay guy disappeared for good. He's not even worth my thoughts. If somebody asks me a question about him only then do I remember, otherwise he doesn't exist for me."
– Buvaisar Saitiev, The Silent Gladiators 2001

he yawns so much

We will fix it ASAP

He is a Genius of wrestling! All Russia proud of Buvaisar Saitiev!

I embedded it here and it works.

http://gnwa.org/underground/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=792

shut up "joey" you obviously dont know if u think anyone can beat saitiev at that weight class
three time olympic gold medalist cmon now

yea, fix the video. it's not workin'

I really wish I could see this interview. Work on it please.

please make this work!

Here is a past response from Saitiev on Slay.
"I let this person take me down in the second round. I didn't even know who he was. I had to look him up in the Internet. I think he shouldn't have been in the Olympics at all, he was like a plane fly-by, he flew in, flew out, and he didn't have much to offer. Maybe they fed him something. He appeared, caused havoc and disappeared. Kind of like that Rulon Gardner, but Rulon at least fights there somewhere. That Slay guy disappeared for good. He's not even worth my thoughts. If somebody asks me a question about him only then do I remember, otherwise he doesn't exist for me."
– Buvaisar Saitiev, The Silent Gladiators 2001

Are you on glue ??

George st pierre would have beat saitev if he wrestled in the olympics this year

video not working!!!

Link to the Slay vs. Satiev match at the 2000 Sydney Games. http://www.flowrestling.org/videos/play/72455

Slay seemed to not be in awe of Satiev and took it to him right off the bat. He also received some favorable calls that placed him in a 3-1 lead within the first 45 seconds of the first period.

Sorry to see Doug and Mike not put it together, they both looked way off. Like something or someone got in their head. Not typical of their style, i'm sure there is something there, has to be. I have never seen that drom them before had notheing to do with stlye.

Anyone jump in here!!!
Anyone know how in the heck Slay beat this guy? I mean he wrestled like Iowa, and it works guys it flat out works!!!

It won't work for me either. Flocast always works on my computer.

i can't get this to work anyone else?

allah's not real

he is a chechen fighter, now russian!! chechen fighter Insha ALLAH!!!

Dude Thanks for the interview I'm sure it wasn't easy getting this guy's ear for a minute. I bet you had to drop Joe Williamson's name to land the interview.

He told me he's a legend in Russia since Russian nationals.

greatest freestyler ever

until we depart with folkstyle and college wrestling and wrestle the same two styles as russia and everyone else in the world, we cannot compete on a medal count with russia. Case in point yards to meters. USA wrestling should be ashamed at some of the athletes they had out there or didn't. Za did not attempt an offensive movement why show up. Cormier didn't even do that schwab little offense at all attempted one commited shot got him another period barely. Mocco was bean bag wrestling, and it almost got him a silver medal but he did not capitalize on the bean bags. I loved the action on the offensive wrestlers really exciting minus the bean bags need a different system there. The referee that screwed the guy from sweden needs a different job, guys work to hard to have a ref make a call like that he should not be allowed back or the other referees who backed that call. leave politics out of wrestling exactly, IOC said that and that is what they should do give the guy back his medal and leave their politics out along with the referees. If referees what to make policy run for office. That reminds me off calls in the ncaa tournament with Iowa's or Oklahoma's coach on the sideline and the referees bending over backwards for some of their guys, same politics different place. Italy always capitalize on referee's scandals. Again If USA is serious about becoming a wrestling power it needs to go to free and grec in high school and college. I watched every match of freestyle and I really felt bad for two guys one of them got a medal and one just missed out. the german at 84 ton of offense was 40 seconds away from the bronze against the world champion from russia the guy deserved a medal heartbreaker. I know you cannot give two golds away but if you could it would go to the guy from lithuania who wrestled his heart out against the world champion from turkey and gold medalist wow. There should not have been a loser in that match. That was some exciting stuff, until it got in the upper weights and not as much action. the 120 gold medalist actually had some action which is why he does not need to wait on that bean bag. The russians made it fun to watch satiev is one of a kind. We did get one medal and he did not stall he was very offensive no bean bag for cejudo. He is training for freestyle not college good idea thats what the russians and other countries do they dont get seasoned on folkstyle they win worlds at nineteen and twenty. USA needs to make sure that every guy on the team at least has an offensive movement next year in their matches at worlds and next olympi cs.

great job martin, very cool.

russian nationals coverage and now an interview with my favorite wrestler and the greatest of all time. thank you flo.

Buvaisar Saitiev is a BEAST WOW 3 time Olympic Gold Medalist!!!!!!!!!!

that is awesome.

Buvaisar Saitiev looks pretty old.

shut ur mouth you looser.

Saitiev looks annoyed. This was great. Thanks Flo!

it doesnt play the whole way through for me whats up with that?

Great Interview Martin. To watch his finals, go to nbcolympics . com and go to the wrestling encore section.

Leave it to Martin and Flo to secure an interview with the absolute top of the wrestling food chain. Way to go!

i wish he would have asked saitiev about his friendship with chechen warlord president Ramzan Kadyrov and how he felt about what was going on in georgia. i'm sure he believes in ethnic cleansing

Martin~~Great Interview...listen to what he is saying..training,food,aerobics,not always go go go on the Wrestling....just a different way of training...

Can someone post the link to his gold medal match? Can't seem to find it and I'm sure it must be on the nbc site somewhere.

martin,
great interview, but i wish you asked him why he thinks russia is so much more dominant that the US in international wrestling right now and what he thinks is wrong with american wrestlers/the american wrestling system. but i understand that your time was limited as were the number of questions you could ask

champions don't run their mouth...our culture has produced way too much of a bravado attitude...you can have the confidence in the world, but that's not winning you gold medals

Not only are we watching quite possibly the greatest amateur freestyler in the long history of our sport, but he is also able to speak Russian and throw his voice in English translation at the same time, WOW!

One of the greatest wrestlers of all time period.

His comments at the end about the federation were interesting, great interview great champion

I love Flo Wrestling!!!!!!!!!!!

I love Flo Wrestling

This guy is humble, smart, (and grey). How did the U.S. get so tentative during these games?

Very humble, indeed. How did our guys get so tentative during this olympics?

I wish he would have asked him about his loss in Sydney to Brandon Slay.... It would have been interesting to see what his thoughts are about that match...

My grandparents blame my genes for their lack of greatness.

No wait, I got that backwards -- I blame my lack of genes for my grandparents greatness.

That was probably one of the most interesting interviews ever. MY FAVORITE ON HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great questions Martin.
This dude is bad ass!!!!!!!!!!!!

so focused...not y. Askren take note please

humility and greatness

Good wry smile at 4:38.

I blame my lack of greatness of my grandparents weak genes. :)

Funny wry smile at 4:38.

I blame my grandparents for not having stronger genes.

what a bad dude!! very nice, and i think he respected martin for the great questions. since you were telling him how good he is. awesome you got to talk to him martin the best of all time. thnaks for that interview!!!!!