Olympic WRESTLER Jordan Burroughs Breaks Down Wrestling Scenes From Movies //
UNLOCK THE BEST WRESTLING CONTENT WITH UWW+ bit.ly/UWWplusyt!
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)
UWW Official Website : bit.ly/uww_org
Download the UWW Official App now: bit.ly/uww_app
Don't miss a move : bit.ly/UWWsubscribe
Purchase the UWW gear here: bit.ly/UWWgear
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.
Oh...yeah, JB is just wrong on that one. I won't argue with him on Wrestling...for the most part. But yeah, the pull-ups behind your back, I absolutely did those to work on my traps, neck, shoulders. Then I'd do regular pullups to build up my lats, my arms, just more back and arms. JD by the way...hard headed MFer. Wrestled him a dozen times or so. I liked the dude...I really did, but I hated him on the mat(and I'm fairly sure he felt the same). There were times where we were just...GRINDING our foreheads into each other almost trying to just crush the other mans skull. Really nothing more than that and banging. I remember about 15 minutes after Wrestling him once he said something to me...and...my head was killing me. I used to get migraines and they come on slowly...so I would know one was coming and in an hour I'd be puking and done. So I got that match JUST in and I remember, I couldn't see, my head was killing me FROM the match and he came by, his head wrapped up(accidental headbut as we both shot) and he said something like, "dude, you got a hard fucking head...how does that shit never bother you." And I'm...just trying to hold the puke down sitting there and I looked up and just shrugged and said, "eh, just wrestling..." and I was so fucking glad he walked away because I just started puking RIGHT then and I couldn't open my eyes and I had to put ice on my head and neck(which I'm sure he later saw!)...but I played it off like, "oh nah, I'm good." And I was just in fucking AGONY. Tough dude...good dude. Would have been so much cooler if I'd won that one, but I did not.
That’s why I do behind the neck pull downs.
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.
kzhead.info/sun/mctrmryciJV6f4k/bejne.html is this it?
I like that movie lol
That movie isn’t that bad
That's like John Cena's only solid movie man
That was movie wasn’t bad at all.
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.
Tom Cruise wrestled in HS in New Jersey. From what I heard, he would not have felt out of place on his back, but I couldn't say for sure.
Just wanted to say "Thank you" for your positive comments on "The Last Champion."
Mario Lopez placed 7th in California state for Chula Vista in 1991 which is no joke.
"didn't work for Ben Askren" I died with laughter.
Did you really?
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.
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?
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
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?!"
His blast double leg is actually insane. Jordan can chop cedar trees down with his double leg takedowns.
Damn, I was hoping he'd review Win Win.
Jordan Burroughs seems like such an awesome guy!
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
Need more of this
i wish this was a GQ series one so more eyes could see JB educate these film makers
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
Love that shirt. Got it at target 🤣
Jordan is a legend.
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
My favorite scene from that movie was when the three coaches were in the corner. All three had very different attire on. From business suit to sweat pants. That right there is the epitome of high school wrestling coaching.
When Giamatti & Cannavale watch the vids from the Ohio State finals to confirm that the kid wrestled and find out he was 2 in state is classic and hilarious!
This was really cool.
please upload all matches of Asian u17 u23 championship
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
Love of iran for you❤jordan baros
2:30 you can if its blood time, JB!
that ben askren comment was unnecessary 😂😂 or should i say... super necessary
1:18 Mario Lopez was a state place finisher in CA when in high school.
5:04 He really had to do ben askren like 😂😢
I loved the movie "Fox Catcher"
What the hell happened to the movie reversal? That by far is the most accurate wrestling movie I’ve seen. Based out of Washington, PA.
One of my favorites
Hi We love jordan .from iran
Where is that shirt from!? I want one!
Swain's vision quest was to beat an undefeated (career) and 3x state champ Shute ... in a dual meet?
I love jb such an iconic representative of US wrestling
Jb u the man...lol saved by the bell review hilarious. They didn't even shake hands ref just blew whistlev
Plus, those two clearly are not near the same weight. Also, suplay is not allowed in high school folkstyle wrestling in the US
He should have done legendary with the reverse cradle
JB you are really talent Assalamu aleykum from Azerbaijan
"Didn't work for Ben Askren" 🤣🤣
Im surprised you guys didnt do “The Hammer”
JORRRRRDAAAN man he is such a beast
I thought there would be Dangal too. I really like that movie
One of the best wrestling movies ever.
I can’t believe Win Win didn’t make the cut!
Jordan and I went to high school together. Not Jordan Burroughs, but a different Jordan.
He was nice to "Vision Quest". He could have picked that movie apart. Coach defaults the match because of a little nosebleed? Not a chance. You hear the ref award a takedown when Shute breaks down Swain from referee's position? Maybe that corrected a continuity issue due to an edit? Made no sense in the wrestling world. Just to name two things.
I agree and imagine the focus on a brief scene worked in the film's favor. Another example of what I think is a dramatic flaw is that, in the final moment of the final showdown, the drama plays out as if Swain needs to pin Shute to win, which is not the case since he had put himself up on points by the time he had him on his back.
@@dvdly Yes! I forgot about that one.
Awesome
glad you like it!
@@UnitedWorldWrestling please upload all matches of Asian u17 u23 championship
Thank you!
Reversal was one of the most realistic high-school wrestling movies of all time from cutting weight to women getting in your way.
Mario Lopez did wrestle, he took 6th place at state his senior year in California, 1991, I believe
Where's Dangal?
y'all forgot to show him the wrestling movie reversal
Jordan burroughs 🤴🏿
GOAT
Surprised there wasn’t anything from On The Mat
If anyone watches this movie believe me you know this movie is amazing
Nice to see John bones jones getting some work post ufc
They wore polos under their singlets... I have seen that but the hoodie helped cut more weight
I don't ever remember seeing that in real life in my 50+ years in the sport.
My brother just met him in fargo
Burroughs seems like a normal human when he is obviously an Alien.
AC would have been DQ'ed for a slam. game over haha
The American Wrestler is great and based on a true story. The wrestling is good
i thought it was Jon Jones when I glanced at the thumbnail
JB!!!
Didn’t even know there was wrestling in movies
Watch Win Win.
I'm disappointed that Dengel didn't make the list
5:10 he threw Ben under the bus bad
Alex Cisneros got thrown at the state final 3x cali champ
I fuck with Saved By The Bell tho
More like this
Who should we sit down with?
@@UnitedWorldWrestling Osman Nurmagomedov, Amir firouzpourba or magomedkhan magomedov or Mahamedkhabib KADZIMAHAMEDAU. We don’t get enough interviews n recognition for Azeri, Dagestani n iranian upcoming n established talent
This guy outwrestled many chechens/dagestanis
But also cmon upload osman nurmagomedov matches already
Who?
I thought at first he was john bones jones
This man looks like floyd maywether and Jon Joan’s love child
👍
Appreciate it.
nice just wish the Indian movie about a female wrestler is in it, forgot the title but was a great film
Dangal
this video is funny
Burroughs his a funny guy, right?
@@UnitedWorldWrestling absoultely
Who does a pull up behind there back lmao
1987 does, that's who.
JB the GOAT
From Iran Baros =Yazdany has an I love you
That fact were both Texas rattlesnake Stone Cold Steve Austin just makesJB that much more! 🐐🍻💥💦🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅give me a HELL YEAH!
Missed opportunity not showing Win, Win.
JB is a wrestling legend and still going. 🇺🇸🥇🤼♂️
Mario Lopez, California State Placer for Chula Vista HS
7th place. His name is on the record. I forget what year.
And if we don't know now we know
SIDAKOV CHAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mark Ruffalo wrestled in high school.
Man no dangal no Bollywood movies is shame they were really good
Перевод где??? Название на русском,а Перевод где? Але
🇰🇬👍🇰🇬
Poor Ben Askren 😂
No Win Win?
Probably the only guy on the planet who can submit Khabib
Ofcourse they use big moves in movies, it's entertainment
Doesn't have the best wrestling scene of all time from The Pacifier. Smh
Савадкухи его победил
I loved saved by the bell. I HATED those Wrestling scenes. And I don't know why I care. I even listen to JB and I'm like, "dude, chill out...of COURSE that shit ain't real." But if you put a screen in front of me while I'm watching this shit...I'm just bitching. Yelling at absolutely nobody! "WHY IS HE WRESTLING A 125 POUNDER IF HE'S A FUCKING HEAVYWEIGHT? OH...YEAH, SLATER JUST GETS TO STEP IN...DON'T NEED TO CHECK IN AT THE TABLE...NOPE! JUST SAY, "HEY, I GOT THIS." I've been told I take it a bit too seriously. There was a movie with a NJ State Champ(so from JBs neck of the woods) who was in a movie with a real famous actor(the guy from Succession I think...the States Attorney). The name eludes me, but that had good Wrestling.
Where's The Pacifier? That wrestling scene was horrible. He pins him wile he is lying on his stomach.
Come on, anyone with half a brain can point out this stuff. Thank you Captain Obvious Burroughs.
Thought this was Jon Jones at first, never heard of this guy but Jones is the GOAT. Try to get an interview with him next
You joking right
i thought that was Jon Jones
Spread the gospel before it’s to late Jesus deid on the cross so we could go to heaven jeuse is are lord and savior Jesus is coming soon jeuse is the son of god
I can’t watch wrestling movies for the same reason I can’t watch cop movies. It’s all bullshit.