Jordan Burroughs said he was “discarded” and felt like “an outcast” after a defeat at the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials in April at Penn State. “I wasn’t sure if I was going to continue to wrestle,” ...

He then punched his ticket to the Olympics by beating 2020/2021 Olympic bronze medalist and fellow Hawkeye Thomas Gilman at the Trials and qualified 57kg for the Games with dominance at the Last ...

In 2021 and 2022, he won world titles at 79kg. He reached seven combined Olympic and world titles, breaking his tie with John Smith and Adeline Gray for the most in U.S. wrestling history.