ZAGREB, CROATIA • Real Woods not only exits Arena Zagreb with a World bronze medal, but he does so as only the third American wrestler in the past twenty years to earn any medal at 65/66kg. For Woods, who has had quite the run this past year as he has made the transition to Freestyle wrestling, he has, if nothing else, solidified himself as the American to beat at this weight moving forward in the quad.
Woods hammers down World bronze; Gomez in the mix

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