James Green | The Bader Show (Ep. 499)

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