James Green | The Bader Show (Ep. 499)
Oct 7, 2026
James is now an 8x World Team member and will wrestle in his 8th World Championships later this month. He also recently took a coaching job on staff at Virginia Tech.
1:00 - James first experience at VT was during COVID
3:50 - James coached at USA Wrestling for a year
7:30 - Thinking “I still got it” after retirement
9:45 - Partial hip replacement
12:45 - Back to Nebraska and competing
15:15 - VT comes knocking
21:45 - James didn’t think he would make it at Nebraska initially
23:20 - VT is in a strong position today
25:15 - Bo Bassett, teammates and coach/athlete relationship
27:15 - Feeling much better at 74kg than 70kg and especially 65kg
31:40 - Mark Manning and Peyton Robb will be coaching and training partner for Worlds
32:40 - Changes in freestyle wrestling since 2015
35:10 - Experience is on his side going into 8th World Championships
37:50 - All-time favorite wrestler
39:00 - Great story of why JB is such a dawg
42:30 - Wins and whoopins
