Rahman Amouzad Bakht first champion in the world; Kalkal and Mamedov are serious candidates for the representative

Rahman Amouzad is the main contender for the gold medal in the 65 kg freestyle wrestling competition of the World Championship and he has to compete with strong competitors from India, America and Bulgaria to reach the first place.

According to the reporter of Mehr, in an analytical report, the American site FloWrestling investigated the contenders for the 65 kg freestyle wrestling in the 2026 World Senior Championships and announced the world champion Rahman Amozad from Iran as the first choice to win the gold medal.

This site wrote: The world adult wrestling championship will be held in Astana, Kazakhstan from November 2 to 10, and the world's best wrestlers will compete in these competitions. 65 kg competitions will be held on November 7 and 8. Beau Bassett from America will represent the country in the 65 kg weight category and will have to compete with Rahman Amouzad, the previous world champion, and seven other world and Olympic medalists.

Ranking of the best 65 kg wrestlers in the world

Rahmon Amouzad (Iran), Sujit Kalkal (India), Abbas-Kazi Magomedov (Russia), Vazgen Tovanian (Armenia), Shamal Mamedov (Bulgaria), Abdul Majid Kodiev (Tajikistan), Beau Bassett (USA), Omidjan Jalalov (Uzbekistan), Islam Hosseinov (Belarus), Kaysi Tanabe (Japan).

The world ranking is based on the results of head-to-head matches; But the ranking of the competitions is based on the points obtained in the ranking competitions of the World Union, the 2025 World Championships and the 2025 Continental Championships.

Possible seeding of the world championships

Rahman Amozad (Iran), Sujit Kalkal (India), Omidjan Jalalof (Uzbekistan), Peyman Biabani (Canada), Shamal Mamedov (Bulgaria), Rashid Babazadeh (Azerbaijan), Nika Zakashvili (Georgia), Alibig Alibigov (Bahrain)

Rahman Amouzad; The first chance to win the championship

Rahman Amouzad, the defending champion of the world championship, is the first chance to win the gold medal in the weight of 65 kg in this year's competition. Last year, Amouzad made up for his defeat in the Olympic final with a decisive 10-0 victory in the World Championship final against Kotaro Kyoka. It is noteworthy that Amouzad has not lost against his rivals since that defeat in the Olympics, and Kyoka will not participate in the world championships this year.

After the Olympics, Amouzad has defeated almost all the contenders of this weight; including Mamedov with a result of 17-10, Kwang Jin Kim with a result of 5-0, Abdul Majid Kodiyev with a result of 12-2, Omidjan Jalalof with a result of 4-0, Peyman Biabani with a result of 5-0, Sujit Kalkal with a result of 6-5 and Rail Woods with a result of 12-1 and 11-2.

Amouzad has had a very powerful performance in the past two years and has the opportunity to become the first wrestler after Ramadan Shahin in 2007 and 2008 to win the world championship in 65 or 66 kg weights two years in a row.

The main contenders for the championship in 65 kg weight:

Sujit Kalkal (India), Shamal Mamedov (Bulgaria), Abbas Qazi Magomedov (Russia), these three wrestlers are the most serious threats to Amouzad on the way to winning the gold medal of the Astana World Championships.

Sujit Kalkal; A serious competitor for Amozad

Topping the list is India's Sujit Kalkal, who recently won a gold medal at the Asian Games. On the way to the championship, he defeated Kotaro Kyoka with a score of 3-3 and based on the best score, and also won against Abdul Majid Kodiyev with a score of 10-1 and Abbas Ebrahimzadeh with a score of 10-0. In addition to the brilliant performance at the Asian Games, Kalkal has won 24 consecutive victories since last year's World Championships. In the last year, he has won other important victories against the contenders of this weight. Last year, Kalkal lost to Amouzad with a difference of only one point, and it is possible that with its progress in the last year, it will be able to defeat the representative of Iran this year.

including Mamedov; The only wrestler who has a history of defeating Amouzad

Shamal Mamedov is the only wrestler in this competition who has a history of winning against Rahman Amozad. This victory goes back to the ranking meeting of the 2023 World Championships; When Mamedov was wrestling for Russia. Mamedov joined the Bulgarian national team after that and since then he has only lost against Abdul Majid Kodiev in 2024 with a result of 10-0, Vazgen Tovanian this year with a result of 2-1 and Amuzad with a result of 17-10. In this year's match against Amouzad, Mamedov finished the first period with an 8-1 advantage, but in the second period, he could not deal with the speed and pressure of the Iranian representative. Amouzad scored 14 points in a row and won. Despite this defeat, Mamedov showed that he has the ability to score many points against Amouzad. If he can perform better in the final minutes of the fight, he could be on the verge of a gold medal.

The final prediction of the 65 kg weight competition

65kg is one of the tightest and most competitive weight classes in the world and will likely have the most exciting schedule of this year's world championships. Undoubtedly, Rahman Amouzad Bakht is the first champion, but many wrestlers in this weight can compete with him in Astana to reach the gold medal. Shamal Mamedov, Abdul Majid Kodiev, Sujit Kalkal, Abbas Qazi Magomedov and Bo Bast are all contenders who can prevent Amouzad from reaching the highest championship platform.