Olympic WRESTLER Jordan Burroughs Breaks Down Wrestling Scenes From Movies // #offthemat

Burroughs turns into critic, breaks down wrestling in famous movies

World and Olympic champion Jordan BURROUGHS (USA) is arguably the most technical wrestler of our generation. With that in mind, and knowing how wrestling is portrayed in movies, we asked the GOAT to critique famous wrestling-related movie scenes.

Burroughs broke down everything from the mats to the fans watching in the gym and everything in between in our latest #OffTheMat special.

Here’s Burroughs breaking down clips from Saved by the Bell (1989), Foxcatcher (2014), Vision Quest(1985) and many more.

Here are the movies that Burroughs broke down:
Saved by the Bell (1989)
Riverdale (Season 2 / Episode 11)
Vision Quest(1985)
Foxcatcher (2014)
The Expendables (2010)
The Last Champion (2020)

[wreslweightlifter]

Love seeing legendary Burroughs break down wrestling scenes in movies. Love the movie of Foxcatcher, as they actually had some professional freestyle wrestlers on
the scene, like Reece Humphrey and JD Bergman. Just one thing abt the behind the neck pull ups tho, I’ve seen some Chinese professional Olympic weightlifters do those to get more stimulus on their back and rotator cuff muscles. I always think behind neck pull ups are stupid tho bc it greatly increases your risk of injuries for sure, prolly risks weigh more than benefits.

[gavcase]

My HS team was an extra in the movie Legendary with John Cena. Our heavyweight head-threw me probably 47 times that day all to not be in the big gym shot lol Wish that awful movie would've been on here.

[dvdly]

The best wrestling moment on film for me is from Born on the Fourth of July. Oliver Stone, who I believe wrestled, at least in high school, dramatizes Cruise's Kovic getting pinned in a way that captures that feeling with an emotional intensity missing in any other wrestling depiction I have seen. Of course, Dolby Surround helps.

[alec]

"didn't work for Ben Askren" I died with laughter.

[joelsherer]

Just wanted to say "Thank you" for your positive comments on "The Last Champion."

[sanitary]

Mario Lopez placed 7th in California state for Chula Vista in 1991 which is no joke.

[ajpreus]

I'm so glad someone finally did a video like this. He said exactly what I was thinking about Vision Quest. ". . . a lateral drop. . . and against the best guy in the state." Couldn't they have made it a little closer?

[thegadflygang]

Jordan is old enough that I would think *"VISION QUEST"* should be almost holy to him. If you wrestled HQ from the 80s to 2000s, you can perfectly quote most of the movie and call the moves and transitions before they are made on the screen/mat

[dvdly]

Obviously as former wrestlers and wrestling fans, we love to have someone of Burroughs' caliber to do one of these videos. It's amusing though how he muses at the prominence of big moves to the exclusion of other things such as hand fighting. For theater, and film and the storytelling from which the art forms derive their purpose, almost always contain an overbalance of the extraordinary compared to real life. That's the nature of it. It's what we call "action", and not just in the sense of an action movie, but rather the depiction of movement in camera or on stage. Sports films in general contain a greater percentage of big plays than the games themselves. Ditto the depiction of the general occurrences in life. What? You think the ten minutes of bank robbery footage out of an hour and a half of film represents the life's balance of a bank robber? I mean, sure, there are arty films that capture realism by way of experimental technique and a focus on the more mundane aspects of their subjects. And, sure, a wrestling nerd could probably create one wrestling fans would appreciate. But the audience numbers for the NCAAs would be a box office disaster for the movie's opening weekend.

[christianphillips]

The last scene was 100% most realistic. If you were to be in that room you wouldn’t have thought it was a movie for sure cause every move was real and executed pretty well

[kmura]

Jordan Burroughs seems like such an awesome guy!

[dvdly]

My grade school coach took us to see Take Down (Lorenzo Lamas, Maureen McCormick, Stephen Furst, and Edward Hermann), whose dramatic ending includes and edge-of-your-seat "will he or won't he be able to lock his hands on the cradle and thereby no doubt get the pin?!"

[trueblueedits]

His blast double leg is actually insane. Jordan can chop cedar trees down with his double leg takedowns.

[jamesgomez]

Damn, I was hoping he'd review Win Win.

[klangs]

i wish this was a GQ series one so more eyes could see JB educate these film makers

[nateb]

Winwin with Paul Giamatti is one of the better movies with wrestling in it. Is guilty of a lot these issues too, but a good movie

[PJP]

1:18 Mario Lopez was a state place finisher in CA when in high school.

[BozoseCompany]

there's nothing you can tell me that says AC Slater's wrestling footage isn't 100% authentic. Im pretty sure its pulled from California State competition footage. I mean the guy scored 7 touchdown in one game against Valley

[Capn_FTB]

I remember channing tatum coming to work out at my highschool in the wrestling room and gym while filming foxcatcher, but everyone and their mother heard about it on facebook and ruined it for the wrestlers who were going to workout with him.

They had our middle school wrestling coach in foxcatcher in a couple scenes, which we didn’t find out until we watched it… super noticeable too, since he’s a tiny little guy. Pretty awesome

[ryomensukuna]

please upload all matches of Asian u17 u23 championship