What We Learned From Beat The Streets
What We Learned From Beat The Streets
Beat The Street showed us some things we knew about our best wrestlers, but opened our eyes to their next level abilities.
Beat The Streets once again gave us exactly what we wanted.
Excitement, high-level wrestling, and wins by Team USA. As we look back on an event we anxiously awaited for so many reasons—one of them being Jordan Burroughs vs. Frank Chamizo—we realize just how incredible it was to witness last Thursday in New York City. Kyle Dake showed off his power moves, Nick Gwiazdowski pulled out some big man athleticism, and the U.S. team's clutch genes were fully engaged. With everything that we saw, it's easy to come away impressed by their performances.
So let’s look back on a few standout moments and takeaways from Beat The Streets.
Our Team Is Strong
This probably goes without saying. Most of us came to the conclusion of how much stronger we became when the UWW added more weights. The full strength of our lineup was seen at the World Cup, but with the competition we just saw some of our best up against, that point is really driven home. Naturally, we had all kinds of faith in our stars, and with seeing how they performed against some tough elements—aka the slippery mat—it’s only grown.
Helen’s Got Skills
Another point that most are reading and saying, “Well, no sh*t.” But hear me out. We know that Helen Maroulis is by far one of the best all-around wrestlers in the world. She’s got the resume to prove it. We’ve also watched her gold medals highlights so many times that we can see her foot sweep by just closing our eyes. But this was Helen on another level. It seems that she’s added another way to absolutely frustrate her opponents by letting them know that even when they are in deep on her leg that the points they seek still belong to her. Watching her dive back at the ankles of Odunayo Adekuoroye was so perfectly timed and took major guts to do considering the elements they were up against and the fact that she was on one foot.
Kyle Snyder Has Ice In His Veins
Thrown on his back, turned with a gut, down 8-1 but still got his hand raised in the end. We’ve never seen Kyle Snyder put in this type of hole before. Without question, this is his greatest comeback. There’s something to be said about giving up eight points to multi-time Cuban world medalist Reineris Salas Perez, then scoring eight of your own while putting up a defensive wall to get the comeback win.
Jordan Oliver Is Back
What a way to make your presence known, right?! JO suffered through his suspension and for his reward he gets to take on Olympic champ Togrul Asgarov, who was anxious to get back to action after being suspended as well, in his first match back. What we saw from Oliver was everything we’ve known he was capable of. Unfortunately, he just doesn’t have the international resume to back it up right now. But his gritty and slick win over Asgarov proved that Oliver is the bad man we’ve known him to be in the past. Next year is going to be very interesting.
Long Live The King
This lived up to the hype. And while everyone thought they had Jordan Burroughs vs. Frank Chamizo figured out, it showed that no matter how confident we are about how things could go, there’s always more tricks up the sleeve. We had our classic WTF moments when it came to Chamizo’s defense and the JB blast double was right on schedule. However, who knew that the king could scramble like that? Stop yourself before pretending you’re a prophet who sees and knows all, because no one expected to see that type of defense from Burroughs. He has always been tough to score on, and now it’s like the fine wine that is Jordan Ernest Burroughs is getting even better with age.
