This kind of content is so good for the sport of wrestling. Seriously I'm so glad Flo exists to tell these kind of stories that get told about other sports.
Dake Is most certainly a world class champion but also human being. This guy never gave up and no matter what the obstacles in his way found a way to persevere and finally rewarded for all his amazing efforts. Job well done Mr. Kyle Dake
Dake went from 64kg his freshman year all the way to 75kg his senior year, then wrestled 74kg, 86kg, 79kg, and back to 74kg trials champion. The guy can wrestle. Any weight any day.
Jordan’s beat dake so many times it’s not even funny can we really call this a rivalry when dake wins as many world championships has Burroughs then talk
@@westcovinawildcatswc4660 considering how well dake did against Cox in 2016, I'd argue he had caught Burroughs by then. He just couldn't get past the weird trials and how USA Wrestling set it up.
That weight class was just absolutely loaded for the US in these recent years. Not just Burroughs and Dake but also David Taylor (who moved up to 86 and won multiple world titles) and J'Den Cox at 86 who won there and moved up to 92 and won there too. Burroughs, Dake, and Taylor all in the same US trials is nuts.
The tournament set up is so unfair. Clearly Dake is the better wrestler in this scenario. Has to face a murderers row before getting to the best on the planet. Dake is the man.
Imagine you're in charge of the US wrestling program. Your star is Jordan Burroughs, who by 2013 (the first gauntlet Dake has to run), has been getting it done for the US for a few years now. Beyond Burrough's NCAA career, where he won two championships in 2009 and 2011, he has gotten gold at the 2011 World Championships and 2012 Summer Olympics along with first place at a number of other tournaments along the way. In other words, he's as proven a commodity as there is. Apart from Burroughs, you have a number of very good if not great prospects. Do you take your proven commodity, a man who has won gold for you multiple times on the world stage, and put him through an elimination bracket for the sake of 'fairness'? It's not like Burroughs hasn't faced and beaten these guys in the past. I respect the hell out of Dake, and acknowledge he had an insane road to get to where he is at. Nevertheless, I think US wrestling made the right call to protect one of the best wrestlers in the program's history.
@@iii-ei5cv protecting a guy goes against the most basic ethos of wrestling, it’s a combat sport. Even in HS, the starter has to wrestle off if he’s challenged( and most schools). What you did last year shouldn’t matter, which is why they have WC EVERY year, you’re just assumed to be the best against, you have to prove it on the mat. In fact, at the WC/O, you get no advantage at all, because last year is gone, doesn’t matter any more. Dake was robbed in 2015, and jobbed at the US open in 2017, which forced him into the challenge tourney again, and Dake was inches from unseating him anyway. If it were JB who had to go through MAGIX, Howe, et al, no way he beats a rested Dake 2/3. This was the first year it was different, as Dake git a bye into the semis( J still sitting out) and the finals were the next night. JB was never in either match. Straight up, with no advantages and fair reffing; Dake is the man
@@LionOfKashmir Your reading comprehension sucks bro. "Dake proved to be the better wrestler AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME". This statement is undisputable given the results of the olympic trials.
Its kyle"s time. Jordan has done everything u can do in the sport. Im excited for kyle. It teaches u its not always your time but keep your head down and grind. And now he gets his chance to live his dreams... Go get tht gold!!!!
@@peterjones6075 this is a fair assessment but the amount of fanboys that preach the dake gospel as if he would have been a better champion and atop the sport over JB the last 10 years if the evil USA had giving him a fair shot is ridiculous. People go out of their way to not give JB his respect. That’s like saying man Federer is only dominating over Andy Murray in championships because andy had a harder draw to get to the championship while ignoring the face fed has dominated for multi generations and held the 1 spot over tennis which allowed him to get better draws.
@@desmundlighten3603 I agree I think you have to wait your turn. JB was the best in the world and now it's Kyle's turn thts just life take full advantage of your moment. But as far as the rules are concerned I'm tired of the excuses for Kyle you couldn't beat JB and thts it. The rules are the rules and some times they don't benefit u but it is what it is.
I just gotta say, Kyle Dake deserves a lot of credit for his persistence and mental toughness. He’s been through so much with his rivalry with Burroughs - some really questionable calls and the fact that he had to wrestle so many tough matches just to get a shot at Burroughs. He’s quite an amazing guy and a good role model for anyone struggling to be successful - just keep moving forward. He got a deserved break when they added a weight class for 2018 and so great for him to win a world title at the new weight class. Wishing all the best for Dake in the years ahead.
I love JB, I mean LOVE that guy. But man, his obviously deliberate eyepokes on Dake were absolutely too much. It was so disappointing. If you need to use that kind of tactic, on a guy who already wrestled twice while you are fresh, you know the end is near.
This is fucking nuts after watching Kyle just slaughter him back to back. How can you not love the kid just taking it to one of the greatest of all time?
Dake had to slaughter two other beasts just to get to Jordan Bye-roughs. Bye-roughs got to wrestle fresh, without first having to go through a gauntlet.
@@jesvinmathew5103 I think Jordan's going to be him because he is acting way more mature and more like a grown up as opposed to Dake who was acting like he's 12
Informative and pretty entertaining at the end. I didn't know all that was involved. Thanks for putting this up. And the tide turned in Dake's favor in the end.
Where was the love when JB was dominating winning gold medals at worlds and olympics ? I don’t understand how a guy that doesn’t have 1 gold medal get more love than your champion ??
I'd have been a pretty good wrestler if I could keep my weight down, but I'm afraid of some of the shit that I heard happens to wrestlers--like that exercise they do to their necks. I see now how big rivalries like this promote the sport, and I agree FloWrestling should get a big thumbs up. I've long thought that this sport is badly underrated here in the US. A good wrestling match is incredibly exciting.
I see a great opportunity here to create a new "Cobra Kai". Thanks for the vid, I don't follow wrestling that much but it is very impressive and your comments and editing make it even better.
Crazy Splitting hairs over who’s the best. I’m just thankful for both. JB’s so freakin quick. He’s given us some of the best scramble clips ever. Dake’s given us those Dakebombs and his ability to move from weight to weight. Just amazing supermen both! Still I’m a New Yorker so I gotta favor Big Red!
News flash: The two best wrestlers in the world at this weight think they should be the number one, and they do not like each other. Love the rivalry but, do we expect anything else? Honestly, I would be more concerned if they loved each other. They both are great champions, hungry and I look forward to every match. Bring it on!
Great story of perseverance on behalf Kyle. Jordan is clearly the greatest. Don’t like the bias excuse making the narrators are making for Kyle. The system is what it is. Kyle is a beast and he proved it
38:40 I wonder if Jordan could win without dirty wrestling as much as he won with it because I tell you what it makes a world of difference when the ref and judges give it to the favorite guy and don't call you for eye gouging. he's amazing I am not discrediting him but Kyle dake has sth different and clean I'm glad for him he's the one now
but why can’t no one be happy for jordan burroughs , he’s a idol to the sport and has proved himself every time . fanboys say he lost okay once . He’s the king and he’s here to stay. comes back from a broken ankle , trains like a monster and dominates ! 11:43 says he got his chance snatched when burroughs made a full comeback and went hard .
I hope that people that are not necessarily really into wrestling finally get to see that Kyle Dake has been the better and tougher wrestler all along but has been beaten by bad bias officials and crazy stupid rules/circumstance. At the same time Kyle Dake would never use any of these issues as an excuse and just worked harder that anyone and is finally able to show how he has been the best all along.
@@USA_Wrestling_799 he had to wrestle and medal at a world/Olympic championship to get that advantage not a mini US open. Things were even in 2017 and dake lost to burroughs 3 times 😂😂😂
I think jordan will beat dake this weekend. But I think dake has a better shot at winning gold because the russian head coach has had literally 10 years to gameplan for burroughs.
The whole qualifying process where a wrestler would have to wrestle through an entire challenge tournament and then wrestle the incumbent the same day was absurd. It was all about protecting the incumbents' spot, imposed a direct physical handicap on the challenger and the clear favoritism inevitably affected the referee's calls. The whole point was to make sure the incumbent won. US Wrestling implemented that qualifying process after a few instances where the top US wrestlers internationally were defeated by domestic wrestlers who were very familiar with them and who then got trounced internationally. US Wrestling decided it would not happen again, but it made qualification a farce. Very glad they modified it.
@@icarus8471 Good compromise, HOWEVER there should be a tourney every year (as is done in Russia) to understand who is the best each particular time. But hey...
Mad respect for both of these athletes... I find myself pulling for Burrow because he deserves to be fresher... but then I completely understand why Dake feels as if it is a advantage. Mostly because it is! No matter how you spin it.. to become the champion.. you have to defeat the champion 🏆 Oh... I hope this is Dake's year :)
This is the best take I’ve seen the rest have been people crying about what dake has to go through as if the championship was just handed to JB. To be the champ you have to climb the mountain and dethrone the king. And JB was king for the better part of the decade. Also what’s with the “spin” from flo? Trying to make this a rivalry well it has been pretty one sided.
@@desmundlighten3603 Very one-sided. Dave never gave up trying to beat Burroughs - props for that, but Buroughs was THE BEST wrestler in the world for quite some time.
So it hurts your feeling to hear that your black panter got a preferential treatement and isn't the better wrestler ? if it was the other way around you'd be barking all day about racisme
@@worldofstaline9812 clearly you just wanted to say that because no made that argument.. probably says something about you... Basically we are saying stop crying Dake and win.... We don’t see J’den Cox crying about Snyder having a bye till the finals and we don’t see Dake giving up his bye to the Semi’s 🤷🏾♂️
Wrestlers are the fittest of all athletes. In constant contact with another man every second of the match takes fitness to a new level. The only thing HARDER than a wrestling tournament is the Tour De France. These dudes are Bad Azz
I never grew up with Wrestling in Ireland but content like this has made me a massive fan. That Jordan Burroughs is something else. The first time I heard of him was when he whitewashed asscream. I thought a Russian would be the G.o.a.t but this American is the one. I'd love if some Americans or Russian coaches brought Wrestling to Ireland. I think we could produce good Wrestlers with the right coaches and 5-10 years experience. Who knows maybe the Irish Jordan Burroughs is waiting to be discovered.
To me, outside of some of the obvious legends of the sport, Jordan is the greatest American wrestler of all-time. I have a feeling Kyle Snyder will challenge that someday, but Jordan is still here
I love flo, so glad they released this video. All due respect to Kyle Dake, incredible wrestler and athlete, but he received byes in national tournaments due to seeding. He understands that to victor goes the advantage. The beauty of wrestling is the adversity. Embrace it. Maybe if he had to wrestle back to 3rd in a national tourney, he'd know that grind. Jordan did, in arguably, the most difficult bracket in nationals history. And followed it up with an unprecedented run where he lost 2 matches (1 due to injury) folk and freestlye from 2008 to 2014. Think about that! Again, Dake is an incredible wrestler, and I hope he continues to be a leader in the sport for many years to come, but the excuses are below him. Jordan Burroughs is the greatest of all time, that may be why Dake is where he is.
I get how much more difficult it is to wrestle a tournament when the defending champ doesn’t, but isn’t that the case for everyone? Including Burroughs before he won? It may be unfair but everyone has to go through it
Weird how this is called bad blood Dake Burroughs, when it should be called Pyle simping for Kyle Dake every possible chance without telling any of the other side of the story.
I have to hate on Flo for a couple simple but decidedly abstract reasons. While It's neat that someone is covering wrestling, finally, as I can remember long before flo when nobody did, but this content has this really preppy kinda...Soccer-y vibe to it. There's something about it that's so sterilized and clean that it's dry and the athlete's feel like they'd be unrelatable to anyone not super deep into the sport. Only the very very veryyyy best are covered, typically, and they are difficult for the layman to relate to. Flo's encapsulation of wrestling is one that has precisely ZERO dirtiness or ugliness, two things that are hallmarks of the sport (or used to be). It's polished up and again, the squeaky clean athletes are covered. Flo makes wrestling feel....nerdy. I guess thats the best way to put it. Maybe it's the perennially safe hosts Flo has covering the sport or the fact that it panders ONLY to people that cover the sport day in/day out, but why not show some other aspects of the sport, too? Is wrestling at the elite level just super nerdy now and I'm imagining things? Why does the content have to be so ridiculously sterile? Just feels weird. Why not spend more time following Thomas Gilman around? That little nutjob is super entertaining and relatable. I knew a ton of oddballs like that guy wrestling in HS and college. Just one example. I am glad Flo exists, don't get me wrong, and I'd take this quality content over no content, it just feels different than the wrestling and wrestlers I grew up with, and they weren't all bums, either. Some of them wrestled at the trials, etc.
"Ready for, whatever challenge this guy presents. He's gotta wrestle a few matches before he even gets to me, but I'll be ready. That's it." - J.B. I think JB tells the truth here unwittingly. He's fully cognizant of the advantage not having to wrestle beforehand gave him. He wouldn't have brought it up otherwise.
He has an advantage because he is the reigning us champion that’s how this works in individual sports look at tennis and any other rankings driven brackets if the rolls were fillpped and it was dake brining home golds it would be JB having to make it through the gauntlet
@@desmundlighten3603 exactly im tired of the excuses hes the champion thats how its ranked you have to wrestle to get to the champion if it was that bias Jordan wouldn't have to Qualify for the world team every year
awesome story of rivals, can anyone explain why borroughs doesnt have to got the thru the pool like dake? Im assuming its because hes the reigning champ however im not familair with the rule set on the world championships
They changed the rules a lot in the past ten years, to speed up the sport and make it more entertaining, wrestling was becoming irrelevant because it was boring. Idk all the rule changes but it’s ten point tech falls and criteria, no overtime
Who’s here after Dake beat Jordan 2-0?!? Despite Having to wrestle through murderers row, he STILL took Jordan in 2. Congrats to Dake, a great way to settle the rivalry with a victory and showing his class & sportsmanship after the match.
This was a very pro dake video lol if he wants to sit out and wait then tell him the win a world championship in a weight that matters.......he’s only confident now because Jordan is old and a few matches from retirement. I love watches these match because they are both legendary American wrestlers! Can’t wait!
And another standing ovation we missed out on....Absolutely ridiculous Oh they show a brief rerun of Jordan and Joey.....I am just absolutely floored how they blew this coverage
This kind of content is so good for the sport of wrestling. Seriously I'm so glad Flo exists to tell these kind of stories that get told about other sports.
That are not behind pay walls
@Volunteer PRE55 🤡
And how about Dake winning a gold in the Olympics (like Jordan did) before we make him the best ever, comical
Thanks for throwing this on RUclips Flo
there is huge difference in wrestling once and wrestling 4 times with world class guys makes all the difference
Looks like it made him better in the long run!
Dake Is most certainly a world class champion but also human being. This guy never gave up and no matter what the obstacles in his way found a way to persevere and finally rewarded for all his amazing efforts. Job well done Mr. Kyle Dake
Dake is a fantastic wrestler. He also happens to be a shaved gorilla :D The throws that guy does in matches are astounding.
Dake went from 64kg his freshman year all the way to 75kg his senior year, then wrestled 74kg, 86kg, 79kg, and back to 74kg trials champion. The guy can wrestle. Any weight any day.
steroids help
@@brian6speed hah
@@brian6speed Yeah, because every guy he fought was clean.
@@brian6speed loser comment. There guys get tested constantly
He does so good because of his speed, technique, and athleticism. You don't know wrestle when you say that.
We need this stuff to all be on RUclips. The sport grows so much from this. Great stuff!
NOPE YOU GOTTA PAY FOR IT. Apparently the investors money isn’t enough to make these awesome videos free.
Who is watching after the 2-0 win for Dake
Me
Z S 6said saw. lol o 22
Who's watching after dake got bronze
@@im2rah same people watching after JB’s DNP in 2016 at Rio
Jordan’s beat dake so many times it’s not even funny can we really call this a rivalry when dake wins as many world championships has Burroughs then talk
damn this was really well made. don't even watch wrestling but couldn't pull away from this.
Well. I guess it does make a difference having to wrestle the same day. Dake talked the talk and backed it up. he better win gold.
It took him 8 years and a lot of whining. Dake will be lucky to have another cycle in him after Tokyo.
Burroughs Prime > Dake Prime
@@westcovinawildcatswc4660 considering how well dake did against Cox in 2016, I'd argue he had caught Burroughs by then. He just couldn't get past the weird trials and how USA Wrestling set it up.
@@pauldarling330 I’m sorry that shit is such a horrible excuse
@@avantcampbell9532 so why did Burroughs sit another tournament while dake faced 3 guys before getting to Burroughs? In 2017
@@masonwebster5160 so that means that dake is going to rescind his bye for the future trials right?
Dake digging the underhooks in 2013 gave the international guys a template to work with...bc they all tried that shit at worlds that year
Lol
That weight class was just absolutely loaded for the US in these recent years. Not just Burroughs and Dake but also David Taylor (who moved up to 86 and won multiple world titles) and J'Den Cox at 86 who won there and moved up to 92 and won there too. Burroughs, Dake, and Taylor all in the same US trials is nuts.
The tournament set up is so unfair. Clearly Dake is the better wrestler in this scenario. Has to face a murderers row before getting to the best on the planet. Dake is the man.
Imagine you're in charge of the US wrestling program. Your star is Jordan Burroughs, who by 2013 (the first gauntlet Dake has to run), has been getting it done for the US for a few years now.
Beyond Burrough's NCAA career, where he won two championships in 2009 and 2011, he has gotten gold at the 2011 World Championships and 2012 Summer Olympics along with first place at a number of other tournaments along the way. In other words, he's as proven a commodity as there is.
Apart from Burroughs, you have a number of very good if not great prospects. Do you take your proven commodity, a man who has won gold for you multiple times on the world stage, and put him through an elimination bracket for the sake of 'fairness'? It's not like Burroughs hasn't faced and beaten these guys in the past.
I respect the hell out of Dake, and acknowledge he had an insane road to get to where he is at. Nevertheless, I think US wrestling made the right call to protect one of the best wrestlers in the program's history.
@@iii-ei5cv didn't help your "best wrestler". Got destroyed by a tired Dak
@@IkesPimpHand Lmaoo
@@iii-ei5cv ur man got clapped
@@iii-ei5cv protecting a guy goes against the most basic ethos of wrestling, it’s a combat sport. Even in HS, the starter has to wrestle off if he’s challenged( and most schools). What you did last year shouldn’t matter, which is why they have WC EVERY year, you’re just assumed to be the best against, you have to prove it on the mat. In fact, at the WC/O, you get no advantage at all, because last year is gone, doesn’t matter any more. Dake was robbed in 2015, and jobbed at the US open in 2017, which forced him into the challenge tourney again, and Dake was inches from unseating him anyway. If it were JB who had to go through MAGIX, Howe, et al, no way he beats a rested Dake 2/3. This was the first year it was different, as Dake git a bye into the semis( J still sitting out) and the finals were the next night. JB was never in either match. Straight up, with no advantages and fair reffing; Dake is the man
Dake ultimately proved to be the better wrestler at this moment in time. What a great rivalry! Gold in Japan looks attainable !!!
Overall JB tho
@@LionOfKashmir Your reading comprehension sucks bro. "Dake proved to be the better wrestler AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME". This statement is undisputable given the results of the olympic trials.
Its kyle"s time. Jordan has done everything u can do in the sport. Im excited for kyle. It teaches u its not always your time but keep your head down and grind. And now he gets his chance to live his dreams... Go get tht gold!!!!
@@peterjones6075 this is a fair assessment but the amount of fanboys that preach the dake gospel as if he would have been a better champion and atop the sport over JB the last 10 years if the evil USA had giving him a fair shot is ridiculous. People go out of their way to not give JB his respect. That’s like saying man Federer is only dominating over Andy Murray in championships because andy had a harder draw to get to the championship while ignoring the face fed has dominated for multi generations and held the 1 spot over tennis which allowed him to get better draws.
@@desmundlighten3603 I agree I think you have to wait your turn. JB was the best in the world and now it's Kyle's turn thts just life take full advantage of your moment. But as far as the rules are concerned I'm tired of the excuses for Kyle you couldn't beat JB and thts it. The rules are the rules and some times they don't benefit u but it is what it is.
Dake deadass said "I want you to leave your shoes on the mat after I beat you" what type of savagery
The. Went to Tokyo and got teched 11-0 . Dake should have left his shoes on the mat his senior year at Cornell.
after jordan beat him 8 or 9 straight why didn't he leave his shoes on the mat..
Wow Burroughs in his prime...crazy fast. Both amazing. Glad they seem to do the finals on a separate day now...
I just gotta say, Kyle Dake deserves a lot of credit for his persistence and mental toughness. He’s been through so much with his rivalry with Burroughs - some really questionable calls and the fact that he had to wrestle so many tough matches just to get a shot at Burroughs. He’s quite an amazing guy and a good role model for anyone struggling to be successful - just keep moving forward. He got a deserved break when they added a weight class for 2018 and so great for him to win a world title at the new weight class. Wishing all the best for Dake in the years ahead.
I love JB, I mean LOVE that guy. But man, his obviously deliberate eyepokes on Dake were absolutely too much. It was so disappointing. If you need to use that kind of tactic, on a guy who already wrestled twice while you are fresh, you know the end is near.
@@zombi3907 agreed, that was a bad move on Burroughs’ part. JB is a GREAT wrestler and doesn’t need to resort to those kind of tactics.
@@zombi3907 Eye Pokes???
@@Nonpeon burroughs pokes dake in the eye just about everysingle match he can unfortunately lol
@@spilkspmilk6798 Excuses Excuses my friend. No crying over spilled Spmilk...
This is fucking nuts after watching Kyle just slaughter him back to back. How can you not love the kid just taking it to one of the greatest of all time?
2-0 is a slaughter?
Then what would you label the tech fall jb gave dake in 15!
Dake had to slaughter two other beasts just to get to Jordan Bye-roughs. Bye-roughs got to wrestle fresh, without first having to go through a gauntlet.
After 8 years he finally did it...lol
@@ikebyers7723 easily bro
He had to go through so much just to wrestle Burroughs they made it unfair every time
Imagine how young Dake must be by now! Is he even allowed to drive any more?
Lmao
I heard he was going through reverse puberty
Hey at least dake doesn't look like someone's aunt Casey
@@hulksmashing underrated comment🤣
@@jesvinmathew5103 I think Jordan's going to be him because he is acting way more mature and more like a grown up as opposed to Dake who was acting like he's 12
Glad that Dake took JB out this year! Let’s go Dake, bring home that gold.
Why ?
Lmao he brought home bronze.. when he gets gold lmk
@@im2rah …well…better than JB not bringing anything home the Olympics before. 👍
Because it's good to see someone who worked so hard get a shot
@@dk1070 you must be a dake fanatic
Loved this video. Was super interesting. I'm pumped about these two wrestling again. I'm a dake guy. Dake #1
Informative and pretty entertaining at the end. I didn't know all that was involved. Thanks for putting this up. And the tide turned in Dake's favor in the end.
DAKE dominated Burroughs. He is on a warpath. So happy for him.
Where was the love when JB was dominating winning gold medals at worlds and olympics ? I don’t understand how a guy that doesn’t have 1 gold medal get more love than your champion ??
The path to bronze. Not gold
@@desmundlighten3603 👍
@@desmundlighten3603 they're bias Jordan is a better wrestler
Everyone should have to wrestle through the whole tournament no matter what credentials you have PERIOD.............
Yeah
Then how would they reward grinding throughout the season? Being the #1 seed is earned, not given.
@@Truebrotha being the number one seed and having easier matches in general is already an advantage
I'd have been a pretty good wrestler if I could keep my weight down, but I'm afraid of some of the shit that I heard happens to wrestlers--like that exercise they do to their necks. I see now how big rivalries like this promote the sport, and I agree FloWrestling should get a big thumbs up. I've long thought that this sport is badly underrated here in the US. A good wrestling match is incredibly exciting.
And now we know that Dake takes Burroughs down. Great two matches.
spencer lee really one-upped the broken ankle thing
Eff excuses. Excuses are for wusses. Gotta love Iowa wrestling.
I see a great opportunity here to create a new "Cobra Kai".
Thanks for the vid, I don't follow wrestling that much but it is very impressive and your comments and editing make it even better.
“I won a world championship 27 days after having surgery”
Yeah, but did you win an Olympic gold medal with a broken freakin neck?
Oh it’s true
Why are you comparing him to Kurt angle?
@@mariochavez6586 it’s damn true
Did you?
@@katietrotter9374 ah. You didn’t get the reference.
Anyone else here 3 yrs later and absolutely lovin Ben Askren just chilling in the background?????
I wouldn't say "bad blood," per se, I would say they are both ultra-competitive. But I sense genuine, mutual respect
How can you not dislike Jordan after this?
must be happy he lost?
How can you still like him after watching him cheat so much??🤔
Word to that, I kinda lost my respect for Jordan. Dude employ such dirty moves.
Fr
Crazy Splitting hairs over who’s the best. I’m just thankful for both. JB’s so freakin quick. He’s given us some of the best scramble clips ever. Dake’s given us those Dakebombs and his ability to move from weight to weight. Just amazing supermen both! Still I’m a New Yorker so I gotta favor Big Red!
News flash: The two best wrestlers in the world at this weight think they should be the number one, and they do not like each other. Love the rivalry but, do we expect anything else? Honestly, I would be more concerned if they loved each other. They both are great champions, hungry and I look forward to every match. Bring it on!
They have a mutual respect for each other... Dake is just selling tickets and FLO subs lol
Dake is 2 years younger than Burroughs... IDK why he keeps calling him old
2 years in wrestling is the equivalent of dog years
Don’t you know? Dake’s getting younger and younger every day! 🤣
Guys Dake is getting younger and younger every day. He's like 14 right now
They were actually the same age in 2019. But since Dake keeps getting younger... Well u know
Great story of perseverance on behalf Kyle. Jordan is clearly the greatest. Don’t like the bias excuse making the narrators are making for Kyle. The system is what it is. Kyle is a beast and he proved it
Yeah there was a weird slant on this story, going above and beyond to not give JB is due and to diminish what he has accomplished.
Wow so how'd it end up going? Was Jordan more or less successful with his eye pokes this time?
I hope they do a whole documentary on and what he did differently like all that newschool barefoot hippy shit. Seems super interesting.
Can’t believe I’ve never seen this before! Love the Flo films
38:40 I wonder if Jordan could win without dirty wrestling as much as he won with it because I tell you what it makes a world of difference when the ref and judges give it to the favorite guy and don't call you for eye gouging. he's amazing I am not discrediting him but Kyle dake has sth different and clean I'm glad for him he's the one now
Both amazing athletes, true prodigies in their game.
but why can’t no one be happy for jordan burroughs , he’s a idol to the sport and has proved himself every time . fanboys say he lost okay once . He’s the king and he’s here to stay. comes back from a broken ankle , trains like a monster and dominates ! 11:43 says he got his chance snatched when burroughs made a full comeback and went hard .
I live in Dallas. When I saw it was in Fort Worth I bought tickets instantaneously. Can’t wait.
Who won?
Damn both are OUTSTANDING competitors!
IS THAT CLAY GUIDA AT 18:00? how did they not mention his name on the screen
What a likable guy. Congrats on your success you deserve every bit of it. And did not quit when 99.9 percent of us would have.
Awesome vid. I was hooked the whole time.
The editing and production on this video is so nice. Great job flo this was very entertaining!
I hope that people that are not necessarily really into wrestling finally get to see that Kyle Dake has been the better and tougher wrestler all along but has been beaten by bad bias officials and crazy stupid rules/circumstance. At the same time Kyle Dake would never use any of these issues as an excuse and just worked harder that anyone and is finally able to show how he has been the best all along.
Excuses
This whole video they complain about Jordan not having to Wrestle the whole way through when he rightfully earned his spot
Agreed. The perspective is very biased.
It’s not a matter of if he deserves the advantage it’s just the fact he had the advantage.
@@USA_Wrestling_799 he had to wrestle and medal at a world/Olympic championship to get that advantage not a mini US open. Things were even in 2017 and dake lost to burroughs 3 times 😂😂😂
Yeah and the super bowl champions should get a first overall draft pick the next year because they deserve it
Very pro Dake narrative.
Great stuff Flodub. Feeling that SBNation-type of vibe, except on wrestling.
I think jordan will beat dake this weekend. But I think dake has a better shot at winning gold because the russian head coach has had literally 10 years to gameplan for burroughs.
😂😂😂True. But no man has ever beat burroughs three times. Sidakov could be the first since him and chamizo are the only two to beat burroughs twice
The whole qualifying process where a wrestler would have to wrestle through an entire challenge tournament and then wrestle the incumbent the same day was absurd. It was all about protecting the incumbents' spot, imposed a direct physical handicap on the challenger and the clear favoritism inevitably affected the referee's calls. The whole point was to make sure the incumbent won. US Wrestling implemented that qualifying process after a few instances where the top US wrestlers internationally were defeated by domestic wrestlers who were very familiar with them and who then got trounced internationally. US Wrestling decided it would not happen again, but it made qualification a farce. Very glad they modified it.
Since when has it been modified?
@@Nonpeon-The finals are now the next day.
@@icarus8471 Good compromise, HOWEVER there should be a tourney every year (as is done in Russia) to understand who is the best each particular time. But hey...
@@Nonpeon-I 100% agree. But given how bad it was, it is a step in the right direction.
This was like a movie 👌🏻
I don't know about wrestling, but this video went pretty hard making every excuse for Dake.
That’s what I thought
Facts
This video is really well done.
Mad respect for both of these athletes... I find myself pulling for Burrow because he deserves to be fresher... but then I completely understand why Dake feels as if it is a advantage.
Mostly because it is!
No matter how you spin it.. to become the champion.. you have to defeat the champion 🏆
Oh... I hope this is Dake's year :)
This is the best take I’ve seen the rest have been people crying about what dake has to go through as if the championship was just handed to JB. To be the champ you have to climb the mountain and dethrone the king. And JB was king for the better part of the decade. Also what’s with the “spin” from flo? Trying to make this a rivalry well it has been pretty one sided.
@@desmundlighten3603 Very one-sided. Dave never gave up trying to beat Burroughs - props for that, but Buroughs was THE BEST wrestler in the world for quite some time.
Now this is the type of promos I love to see
This whole video was of them 2 guys making excuses for dake
Facts 😂😂😂
Exactly what I was saying threwout the whole video!
So it hurts your feeling to hear that your black panter got a preferential treatement and isn't the better wrestler ? if it was the other way around you'd be barking all day about racisme
@@worldofstaline9812 clearly you just wanted to say that because no made that argument.. probably says something about you... Basically we are saying stop crying Dake and win.... We don’t see J’den Cox crying about Snyder having a bye till the finals and we don’t see Dake giving up his bye to the Semi’s 🤷🏾♂️
@@worldofstaline9812 get over it kid u are clutching at straws
So enjoyed this the build up awe man makes this old man want to lace up can't wait for the trials.hell yeah .
So we just gonna ignore the legend Clay Guida @ 18:02?
Did somebody need a
Carpenter??
@@jamessouza7065 🔥🔥🔥
Those two need each other. As much as they dont seem to like one-another.
Fantastic documentary on these two warrirors!
these two warriors are keeping wrestling great.
18:02 clay Guida love that dude
Wrestlers are the fittest of all athletes. In constant contact with another man every second of the match takes fitness to a new level. The only thing HARDER than a wrestling tournament is the Tour De France. These dudes are Bad Azz
45:18 is that a bit of gyno, mostly on his left pec?
I never grew up with Wrestling in Ireland but content like this has made me a massive fan.
That Jordan Burroughs is something else.
The first time I heard of him was when he whitewashed asscream.
I thought a Russian would be the G.o.a.t but this American is the one.
I'd love if some Americans or Russian coaches brought Wrestling to Ireland.
I think we could produce good Wrestlers with the right coaches and 5-10 years experience.
Who knows maybe the Irish Jordan Burroughs is waiting to be discovered.
Love both great competes
Gotta beat the Champ to be the Champ 🤷🏾♂️🥇
Little tip against Burroughs :
Don’t shake hands at the beginning, he attacks right when they shake.
Because he dirty af
To me, outside of some of the obvious legends of the sport, Jordan is the greatest American wrestler of all-time.
I have a feeling Kyle Snyder will challenge that someday, but Jordan is still here
Iron sharpens iron! Burroughs made Kyle who he is today. USA wrestling is in great shape!
My takeaway: Dake got robbed several times.
GREAT WORK HERE GUYS
These two guys are obviously Dake fan boys which is fine but they completely discredit Jordan. It’s absurd and borderline racist
I love flo, so glad they released this video. All due respect to Kyle Dake, incredible wrestler and athlete, but he received byes in national tournaments due to seeding. He understands that to victor goes the advantage. The beauty of wrestling is the adversity. Embrace it. Maybe if he had to wrestle back to 3rd in a national tourney, he'd know that grind. Jordan did, in arguably, the most difficult bracket in nationals history. And followed it up with an unprecedented run where he lost 2 matches (1 due to injury) folk and freestlye from 2008 to 2014. Think about that! Again, Dake is an incredible wrestler, and I hope he continues to be a leader in the sport for many years to come, but the excuses are below him. Jordan Burroughs is the greatest of all time, that may be why Dake is where he is.
I get how much more difficult it is to wrestle a tournament when the defending champ doesn’t, but isn’t that the case for everyone? Including Burroughs before he won? It may be unfair but everyone has to go through it
Weird how this is called bad blood Dake Burroughs, when it should be called Pyle simping for Kyle Dake every possible chance without telling any of the other side of the story.
Is that clay guida at 18:02
Great vid. Roman Bravo Young cameo behind JB at 45:47.
I have to hate on Flo for a couple simple but decidedly abstract reasons. While It's neat that someone is covering wrestling, finally, as I can remember long before flo when nobody did, but this content has this really preppy kinda...Soccer-y vibe to it. There's something about it that's so sterilized and clean that it's dry and the athlete's feel like they'd be unrelatable to anyone not super deep into the sport. Only the very very veryyyy best are covered, typically, and they are difficult for the layman to relate to. Flo's encapsulation of wrestling is one that has precisely ZERO dirtiness or ugliness, two things that are hallmarks of the sport (or used to be). It's polished up and again, the squeaky clean athletes are covered. Flo makes wrestling feel....nerdy. I guess thats the best way to put it. Maybe it's the perennially safe hosts Flo has covering the sport or the fact that it panders ONLY to people that cover the sport day in/day out, but why not show some other aspects of the sport, too? Is wrestling at the elite level just super nerdy now and I'm imagining things? Why does the content have to be so ridiculously sterile? Just feels weird. Why not spend more time following Thomas Gilman around? That little nutjob is super entertaining and relatable. I knew a ton of oddballs like that guy wrestling in HS and college. Just one example. I am glad Flo exists, don't get me wrong, and I'd take this quality content over no content, it just feels different than the wrestling and wrestlers I grew up with, and they weren't all bums, either. Some of them wrestled at the trials, etc.
Quality production.
So what are the rules about sitting out and getting a bye to the finals? Why was Jordan able to sit out until the finals in 2013 and 2015?
This was way over the top! You guys are great. Whished I was 40 years younger.......
This kind of seems like a pro Dake video and less of a documentary on their bad blood. Lol
"Ready for, whatever challenge this guy presents. He's gotta wrestle a few matches before he even gets to me, but I'll be ready. That's it." - J.B.
I think JB tells the truth here unwittingly. He's fully cognizant of the advantage not having to wrestle beforehand gave him. He wouldn't have brought it up otherwise.
He has an advantage because he is the reigning us champion that’s how this works in individual sports look at tennis and any other rankings driven brackets if the rolls were fillpped and it was dake brining home golds it would be JB having to make it through the gauntlet
@@desmundlighten3603 exactly im tired of the excuses hes the champion thats how its ranked you have to wrestle to get to the champion if it was that bias Jordan wouldn't have to Qualify for the world team every year
Jordan is a class act! That's the summary for this interview.
Wrong. Dake is the real class act
Burroughs with some eye pokes, head butts, finger locking, hard palms to the face, and a bit of referee help to win the US Olympic Team Trials.
Dake has only made world teams at non Olympic weights. Enough said
@@darknessrises3977 lol yup.
@@darknessrises3977
Okay Ray Charles
awesome story of rivals, can anyone explain why borroughs doesnt have to got the thru the pool like dake? Im assuming its because hes the reigning champ however im not familair with the rule set on the world championships
Why are the rules so different? 7 points and you win, overtime, ? I’m confused
They changed the rules a lot in the past ten years, to speed up the sport and make it more entertaining, wrestling was becoming irrelevant because it was boring. Idk all the rule changes but it’s ten point tech falls and criteria, no overtime
They've changed the rules a lot the past 10 years
Seems like they constantly change. Which is weird. I watched a match from like 2000 and it was like "what the heck?" LOL.
Tonight they acted right. I was happy to see it.
This could also be called, "poor Kyle Dake."
Who’s here after Dake beat Jordan 2-0?!? Despite Having to wrestle through murderers row, he STILL took Jordan in 2. Congrats to Dake, a great way to settle the rivalry with a victory and showing his class & sportsmanship after the match.
People slandering Burroughs and hyping up dake. Please tell me who has GOLD?
I’ve listened to this like 10-15 times now lol
This was a very pro dake video lol if he wants to sit out and wait then tell him the win a world championship in a weight that matters.......he’s only confident now because Jordan is old and a few matches from retirement. I love watches these match because they are both legendary American wrestlers! Can’t wait!
And another standing ovation we missed out on....Absolutely ridiculous
Oh they show a brief rerun of Jordan and Joey.....I am just absolutely floored how they blew this coverage
Sick video
Dake going thru so many killers on the mat back to back is the reason why he is the best .
After all, Dake has been through a lot more than bourroughs and Dake comes out as a real Champ.
How so? How’s he been through more? You talk like JB hasn’t earned his spot
@@wildshark9248 most dake fans are bias Jordan is the better wrestler
Was that a clay guida sighting?
I saw that too
The carpenter,Clay Guida!
Dude I’m cracking up
I once met Clay at a Phish concert in Washington.