Madill, OK — Roman Bravo-Young, ranked #5 in the world in Freestyle Wrestling at 57kg and 2x NCAA Champ in Folkstyle for Penn State, will be working with area wrestlers in the Madill Event Center on Thursday, June 26, 2025. His focus will be on teaching the best freestyle wrestling techniques, so that wrestlers will dominate at Folkstyle State 2026.
Known iconically as RBY, Bravo-Young’s passion for equipping today’s youth wrestlers is renowned given his transcendence from the dangerous neighborhoods of South Tucson, Ariz. His meteoric rise from dire circumstances is currently featured in a short documentary on Flowrestling, RBY: Straight Outta Tucson. That documentary details how he became the greatest Folkstyle and Freestyle wrestler the state of Arizona has ever produced.
Presentday,RBYhasbeen stacking the wins. A summary of those wins includes:
• Silver Medalist at the 2025UnitedWorldWrestling Ranking Series in Mongolia; beating the 2024 Paris Olympic Bronze medalist, Aman Aman of India. This event placed RBY as #5 in the World.
• Gold Medalist at the 2025 Pan American Championships representing Mexico
• 2024 Paris Olympian representing Mexico
• 2x NCAA Champ for Penn State under Cael Sanderson • 4x NCAA All-American for Penn State under Cael Sanderson
• High School Folkstyle Record: 4x AZ state champ going 182-0 while being a U17 World Team Member in Freestyle
• Member of the Cowboy Regional Training Center at Oklahoma State University led by David Taylor
Bravo-Young brings with him Mirzo Khayitov, also a member of the Cowboy RTC, to work with all the Southern Oklahoma’s wrestlers who have at least two years’ experience. Khayitov himself is no slouch. His accolades are in the stratosphere with RBY’s.
Those accolades include:
• 6x Uzbekistan National Champion, making Uzbek history
• Senior World Team & Asian Team Member
• 2xNJCAAAll-American
• Silver Medalist - Invitational World All-Star Tournament
• Bronze Medalist - 2024 Bill Farrell Memorial
• Member of the Cowboy Regional Training Center at Oklahoma State University led by David Taylor
Wrestlers who want to work with Bravo-Young and Khayitov must register quickly, as space is limited to 70 wrestlers.
For those lacking two years of wrestling experience or who simply want to watch and get more information about the Madill Takedown Club, general admission to watch is free.
The Madill Takedown Club currently has three of its members representing Team Oklahoma in the 2025 USMC Junior Nationals in Fargo, ND in July. One of those wrestlers, Lucas Franklin of Coalgate, is the winner of the Triple Crown: State Champ three times over in Folkstyle, Freestyle, and Greco. Another member, Gage Vaughn of Caddo, is the only Junior Girl in any weight bracket from Southern Oklahoma to qualify for Fargo. And the third is Alex Sarabia, Madill’s first and only wrestler to qualify for Fargo and go to represent Team Oklahoma.
Coach Peter Hammer summed up the Club’s excitement over the upcoming wrestling clinic.
“To have RBY and Mirzo Khayitov join us in Madill is huge for Southern Oklahoma’s youth wrestlers,” Hammer said. “Our aim has always been to create as many opportunities as possible for kids and young adults. Historically, those opportunities have been and continue to be in Folkstyle. With our new focus on the international wrestling community, we’ve also made freestyle and greco accessible.”
“The awesome thing about this particular clinic with the elite of the elite in Roman and Mirzo is this: Folkstyle wrestlers will learn all of the transferrable Freestyle techniques that have the potential to make them unstoppable forces of nature on the mats at Folkstyle State in 2026.”
To register for the Roman Bravo-Young & Mirzo Khayitov Clinic hosted by the Madill Takedown Club on 6/26/2026 from 9 am 4:30 pm in the Madill High School Gym, please scan the QR code in the picture with the camera on your smartphone, or go to https://bit.ly/ MTClub-RBY-Clinic.
For more information, please contact: madilltakedownclub@ gmail.com or visit madilltakedownclub.com.
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About the Madill Takedown Club
The Madill Takedown Club is revolutionizing youth wrestling for success on & off the mat. They believe in a unique training approach that promotes success in life for your children. The Club recognizes that performance depends on mindset... anyone’s performance depends on how they think. To that end, they believe that coaching in a functional way creates champion wrestlers AND improves critical thinking patterns that enable: productive selfbelief, confidence, and the passionate life-long pursuit of continuous improvement. Consequently, the Club fully integrates elements of Freestyle and Greco-Roman Wrestling with Folkstyle to turn youth wrestlers into unstoppable warriors come winter for District, Regionals, and State competitions.