Adam Coon will go for gold in the Greco-Roman 130 kg final at the  2018 UWW Senior World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Join us as provide live updates of the first American wrestling in a Greco-Roman world championship final since Dremiel Byers in 2009, also in the heavyweight division. 

GOLD MEDAL MATCH: Adam Coon vs Sergey Semenov

Coon will face off with a Russian with the ultimate prize on the line. Adam has wrestled Semenov before, at the 2014 Greco-Roman Junior World World championships. Semenov won that semifinal match 3-1 and would go on to take gold, while Coon would battle back for third and a bronze medal. Semenov also has a bronze medal from the Rio Olympics and a gold at the U23 World Championships in 2017. Coon has a cadet gold in freestyle from 2011 and two bronze medals from the 2014 Junior World Champions, one in freestyle and one in Greco-Roman. 

And here we go!

Inside of 30 seconds Semenov gets a step out point. Semenov locked up around Coon's body and gets air time. Wow, huge throw for Semenov to make it 5-0. A little over a minute into the match and Semenov gets another body lock and another fearless back arch and four more to end the match. A 9-0 tech fall for Russia and a silver medal for Adam Coon. 

So not the ending anyone rooting for Team USA was hoping for. Credit to Semenov for his incredible power and technique. Still a tremendous showing by Coon, notching four pins on his way to the gold medal match. A lot for him and the Greco-Roman program to build off. 

And that concludes our live updates (soon to be renamed 'match notes') from Budapest. A huge thanks to all of you, the best wrestling fans on the planet, for following along with us. Hope you enjoyed all the content we made from Hungary, and stay tuned as we will have more coming soon. Bye bye from Budapest and apologies for all the typos!