2018 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 125 kg
# 2018 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 125 kg

The men's freestyle 125 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2018 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Budapest, Hungary on 20 and 21 October.

This freestyle wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals. The two finalists face off for gold and silver medals. Each wrestler who loses to one of the two finalists moves into the repechage, culminating in a pair of bronze medal matches featuring the semifinal losers each facing the remaining repechage opponent from their half of the bracket.

## Results

### Legend

* F — Won by fall

### Final

| Final | Final |
| - | - |
| Deng Zhiwei (CHN) | 0 |
| Geno Petriashvili (GEO) | 6 |

### Top half

| Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nick Gwiazdowski (USA) | 9 | | | | |
| Natsagsürengiin Zolboo (MGL) | 4 | | | | |
| | | Nick Gwiazdowski (USA) | 4 | | |
| | | Deng Zhiwei (CHN) | 5 | | |
| Amar Dhesi (CAN) | 1 | | | | |
| Deng Zhiwei (CHN) | 4 | | | | |
| | | | | Deng Zhiwei (CHN) | 5 |
| | | | | Sumit Malik (IND) | 0 |
| Sumit Malik (IND) | 4 | | | | |
| Taiki Yamamoto (JPN) | 1 | | | | |
| | | Sumit Malik (IND) | 6 | | |
| | | Yermukambet Inkar (KAZ) | 1 | | |
| Andrei Romanov (MDA) | 1 | | | | |
| Yermukambet Inkar (KAZ) | 9 | | | | |

### Bottom half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | Geno Petriashvili (GEO) | 11 | | | | |
| Johannes Ludescher (AUT) | 1 | Dániel Ligeti (HUN) | 1 | | | | |
| Dániel Ligeti (HUN) | 6 | | | Geno Petriashvili (GEO) | 8 | | |
| Catriel Muriel (ARG) | $8^F$ | | | Anzor Khizriev (RUS) | 5 | | |
| Florian Skilang Temengil (PLW) | 7 | Catriel Muriel (ARG) | 2 | | | | |
| Nam Koung-jin (KOR) | 1 | Anzor Khizriev (RUS) | 12 | | | | |
| Anzor Khizriev (RUS) | $4^F$ | | | | | Geno Petriashvili (GEO) | 13 |
| Parviz Hadi (IRI) | 11 | | | | | Parviz Hadi (IRI) | 6 |
| Robert Baran (POL) | 0 | Parviz Hadi (IRI) | 11 | | | | |
| Ibrahim Saidau (BLR) | 4 | Ibrahim Saidau (BLR) | 2 | | | | |
| Jamaladdin Magomedov (AZE) | 3 | | | Parviz Hadi (IRI) | 3 | | |
| Nick Matuhin (GER) | 0 | | | Taha Akgül (TUR) | 2 | | |
| Taha Akgül (TUR) | 9 | Taha Akgül (TUR) | 7 | | | | |
| | | Oleksandr Khotsianivskyi (UKR) | 0 | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| - | - | - | - |
| Amar Dhesi (CAN) | 0 | Nick Gwiazdowski (USA) | 7 |
| Nick Gwiazdowski (USA) | 7 | Sumit Malik (IND) | 2 |
| Dániel Ligeti (HUN) | 6 | Anzor Khizriev (RUS) | 2 |
| Anzor Khizriev (RUS) | 10 | Parviz Hadi (IRI) | 11 |
