Taylor Recalls First Meeting With Burroughs

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David Taylor got his first taste of Jordan Burroughs at the 2013 US Open. Burroughs was a World and Olympic Champion while Taylor was a 2x NCAA Runner-Up and a 1x NCAA Champion.

Taylor knew that it was impossible to train with someone who wrestled like Burroughs and that they only way to understand what he felt like was to wrestle the man.

From the start Taylor didn't have the right mindset and even remembered thinking to himself before the finals, "If I wasn't in school right now I could get $1500 for taking second."

David Taylor walks us through that match and explains his takeaways. After that match he believe he could beat Jordan Burroughs, and nearly did it one year later at the 2014 US Open in this thrilling match.

As we approach the 2017 World Team Trials, David Taylor could be facing a similar challenge in J'den Cox. While David Taylor won the US Open last month, J'den Cox will be sitting out of the mini tournament, where Taylor will be the heavy favorite.

Cox, like Burroughs, has a style that you just can't replicate and the only way to know what he feels like is by wrestling him. One catch here is that Taylor went to Rio with Cox to be his training partner for the Olympics, so he has an idea of what Cox feels like.

How would a match, or two or three, between J'den Cox and David Taylor look like? We don't know, but it looks like we will find out in Lincoln, NE at the World Team Trials on June 10.