Jordan Burroughs Wins First World Freestyle Wrestling Championship in Istanbul
by KJ Gould on Sep 18, 2011 2:18 PM EDT
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Minutes ago the 2011 NCAA Division I Wrestling Champion for Nebraska Jordan Burroughs became World Champion in Freestyle Wrestling in Instanbul, Turkey. Competing at 74 kg / 163 lbs, the one day event saw Burroughs wrestle four times to get to the finals, with a win over former champion Denis Tsargush of Russia in his second match.
Burroughs met Iranian Sadegh Goudarzi in the final and won 2 straight periods to win Gold. In the first period Burroughs scored the first point early with a takedown to out of bounds but Goudarzi promptly returned the favor with his own and got control giving him 2 points. Two more takedowns for Burroughs edged him in the first period 3-2 with Goudarzi out of time before he could get a takedown of his own.
The second period saw a lot of feeling out by both men from a tie-up for the first minute, until Burroughs scored a takedown to out of bounds for 1 point. What happened next is a little unclear. Goudarzi tries for a takedown, Burroughs defends and counters in a great scramble getting two points but during the reset Goudarzi gets a point as well. It may be the referee called for something illegal on Burroughs part who was controlling from the back with an ankle pick that could be seen as cranking a toehold. After a long pause with 12 seconds left on the clock Burroughs gets a takedown and with 6 seconds left maintains his 4-1 point advantage to win the match.
Burroughs is the first World Champion for Team USA since 2006 with Bill Zadick and joins a short list of USA's World and Olympic Champions in the last decade which only additionally includes Brandon Slay, Cael Sanderson and Henry Cejudo.
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Jordan Burroughs is a different kind of wrestler!
If he ever transitioned to mma you could bet your house he would be able to takedown every single opponent he faced
Could be......
However Lesner is a takedown machine until he gets hit in the face.
Nah, Lesnar's takedowns aren't anything on Jordan Burroughs
pound-for-pound speaking.
Burroughs at Welterweight for sure would have better takedowns than GSP or Josh Koscheck. If he’s molded properly at a place like AKA so he can use strikes to get takedowns and not be shy he has all the potential to be a future UFC champion.
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Not right now
His focus is on the Olympics and as long as he keeps winning internationally, he’ll get paid handsomely through sponsorships and endorsements.
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Daniel Cormier wants him at AKA
Has done since Burroughs NCAA win. He’d be the best takedown wrestler at Welterweight by far.
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Lesnar isn't half the wrestler burroughs is
His timing and explosiveness is out of this world
I'm pretty sure Burroughs got called
for being an American with a lead. FILA hates American wrestlers.
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by duck on Sep 18, 2011 2:52 PM EDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs
Not to nitpick but
The article should really mention what weight class the guy won in (it was in the 74 kg / 163 lbs. division). Also it’s “NCAA Division I” not “Division 1.” This article is currently the top hit on Google News for “Jordan Burroughs” btw, so it’s gonna bring in a bit of traffic from amateur wrestling fans (and kids in high school wrestling programs) who might not normally read about MMA. That being said I’m glad to see amateur wrestling given coverage here.
Also I’m not normally jingoistic, but I’m hella proud of American wrestling for this. American wrestlers are very “good” but hardly dominant on the international scene, and part of it is because U.S. colleges and high schools do folkstyle (aka “collegiate”) wrestling instead of freestyle or Greco-Roman. Folkstyle is a better base for MMA however, at least in my opinion, as it lacks some of the sillier rules that could cost you points or a match, like getting penalized if your shoulders glance the mat at all even if the other wrestler is not in any sort of control or not even touching you, like even for a transition maneuver. So I’m glad to see an NCAA Champion make the transition well enough to win a Freestyle World Championship.
by Chromium on Sep 18, 2011 3:48 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Noted and corrected.
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Nice to see a top level American wrestler able to transition so smoothly to the international scene
Google Ron Paul!
He had done Freestyle before College
But stopped for 4-5 years and resumed after college. Still though, he’s only 6 months removed from his NCAA win and he’s a World Freestyle Champion.
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very impressive
He’s still young enough to go for his olympic aspirations next year without throwing away a pro career in mma including cross training time. The fact that he’s done mostly folkstyle in the recent past, but was able to come out and win the freestyle is tremendous and says a lot about his natural grappling talent (wonder how he’d take to BJJ).
Could definitely see another Phil Davis (ie wrestler taking on submission grappling and being a natural) here. The alternative of him going to AKA (who’s been courting him heavily) would show him using his wrestling base to create standing opportunities. Dunno how great that would be for him though when you consider how many high ranking 170 guys there are at AKA.
I don't think Fitch and Koscheck have that many years left in the game
As long as GSP is champ and them not fighting each other I can’t see them getting another title shot. And no offense to the guy, but forget about Swick.
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