J’den Cox has had a month to digest missing the weigh-in deadline at the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials, where he was one of the stars as a reigning Olympic medalist and two-time world champion.
He has since dropped his appeal, spoken out in support of his Olympic champion coach — who told him the wrong time for weigh-ins — and seen others in the wrestling community and on social media turn their backs on him.
“I looked K.J. in his eyes, and I promised him,” Cox said on the Inside Mizzou Athletics podcast of his coach, Kevin Jackson, “I’m going to bring the wrath of God on these people.