# 2006 World Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle 120 kg

The men's freestyle 96 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2006 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Tianhe Gymnasium in Guangzhou, China on 29 September 2006.
This freestyle wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals.

## Results
### Legend

* F — Won by fall

### Final

| Final | Final | Final | Final |
| Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov (RUS) | 1 | 0 | |
| Artur Taymazov (UZB) | 1 | 3 | |

### Top half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| | | | Francis Villanueva (PHI) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | |
| | | | Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov (RUS) | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov (RUS) | 3 | 4 | | | |
| | | | | | | | Davaanyamyn Lkhagvadorj (MGL) | 1 | 1 | | | |
| | | | Davaanyamyn Lkhagvadorj (MGL) | 1 | 0 | 4 | | | | | | |
| | | | Lee Se-hyung (KOR) | 0 | 2 | 0 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov (RUS) | 3 | 3 |
| | | | | | | | | | | Fardin Masoumi (IRI) | 1 | 0 |
| | | | Tolly Thompson (USA) | 3 | 1 | 2 | | | | | | |
| Eldar Kurtanidze (GEO) | 2 | 4 | Eldar Kurtanidze (GEO) | 3 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | |
| Ioannis Papadopoulos (GRE) | 0 | 0 | | | | | Tolly Thompson (USA) | 0 | 0 | | | |
| Rareș Chintoan (ROM) | 1 | 1 | | | | | Fardin Masoumi (IRI) | 2 | 1 | | | |
| Fardin Masoumi (IRI) | 1 | 8 | Fardin Masoumi (IRI) | 2 | 5 | | | | | | | |
| Martin Siddiqui (GER) | 0 | 0 | Marid Mutalimov (KAZ) | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | |
| Marid Mutalimov (KAZ) | 1 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |

### Bottom half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| Ottó Aubéli (HUN) | 2 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Katsuya Kitamura (JPN) | 0 | 0 | Ottó Aubéli (HUN) | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | |
| Denis Roberts (AUS) | 0 | 0 | Jamie Cox (CAN) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | |
| Jamie Cox (CAN) | 6 | 1 | | | | | Ottó Aubéli (HUN) | 0 | 0 | | | |
| Ruslan Basiev (ARM) | 1 | 1 | | | | | Artur Taymazov (UZB) | 3 | 3 | | | |
| Ivan Ishchenko (UKR) | 0 | 0 | Ruslan Basiev (ARM) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | |
| José Cuba (ESP) | 0 | 0 | Artur Taymazov (UZB) | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | |
| Artur Taymazov (UZB) | 7 | 6 | | | | | | | | Artur Taymazov (UZB) | 3 | 5 |
| Maksim Mikhalevich (BLR) | 0 | 1 | | | | | | | | Recep Kara (TUR) | 0 | 0 |
| Liang Lei (CHN) | 1 | 3 | Liang Lei (CHN) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | |
| Recep Kara (TUR) | 7 | 6 | Recep Kara (TUR) | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | |
| Hà Văn Hiếu (VIE) | 0 | 0 | | | | | Recep Kara (TUR) | 1 | 1 | | | |
| Naveen Singh Suhag (SUI) | 0 | 0 | | | | | Khizar Durgayev (AZE) | 0 | 0 | | | |
| Khizar Durgayev (AZE) | 2 | 6 | Khizar Durgayev (AZE) | 2 | 1 | 1 | | | | | | |
| Hisham Abdelwahab (EGY) | 0 | 0 | Palwinder Singh Cheema (IND) | 0 | 2 | 0 | | | | | | |
| Palwinder Singh Cheema (IND) | 1 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| | | | Francis Villanueva (PHI) | 0 | | Davaanyamyn Lkhagvadorj (MGL) | 1 | 0 | |
| | | | Davaanyamyn Lkhagvadorj (MGL) | 3$^F$ | | Fardin Masoumi (IRI) | 3 | 4 | |
| José Cuba (ESP) | 0 | 0 | Ruslan Basiev (ARM) | 1 | 1 | Ruslan Basiev (ARM) | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ruslan Basiev (ARM) | 6 | 3 | Ottó Aubéli (HUN) | 0 | 0 | Recep Kara (TUR) | 3 | 0 | 0 |