Teemer beats Haji Aliyev 9-6 at RAF 13
The three-time NCAA All-American handed one of freestyle's most decorated lightweights a loss on the RAF mat.
Jacori Teemer beat Haji Aliyev 9-6 at RAF 13, per Saturday Night Lights. Aliyev is a two-time Olympic medalist and a three-time World champion. Teemer is a three-time NCAA All-American, and this is the kind of name that changes how people talk about an American at this weight.
The 3x NCAA All-American takes down 2x Olympic medalist and 3x World Champion Haji Aliyev, 9-6.
The scoreline says it was a fight rather than a runaway. Nine points against a wrestler with that resume is not a stall-and-steal win, and six the other way says Aliyev was scoring too. Saturday Night Lights called it "a huge win," which is the fair read on beating a three-time World champ in a freestyle match.
What we know and what we do not
The only account of the result we have is the Saturday Night Lights post, so treat the details beyond the 9-6 final as unreported for now. Nobody has posted the weight class, the round, or how the scoring broke down. Nobody has said whether Aliyev was competing in a one-off or building toward anything else.
Our take: the value here is the name on the other side of the bracket line. Aliyev has been a measuring stick in freestyle for a decade, and American wrestlers get very few cracks at that level outside of a World or Olympic year. Teemer got one and took it.
RAF cards have been a steady supply of these matchups for US wrestlers, pairing NCAA products against international medalists in a format where the result is a single match and nothing gets hidden behind a bracket. Teemer just banked the best possible version of that.
What to watch: whether full match footage and the weight class surface, and whether Teemer lands on a future RAF card.