Devastating loss for champion US wrestler Jordan Burroughs (Yahoo Sports)
U.S. wrestler Jordan Burroughs came to the Rio Olympics expecting to build a legacy so great he could transcend his sport. Instead, the defending Olympic and world champion was left to try and explain the unexplainable. Burroughs, considered by many the best wrestler in the world, was stunned by Russia’s Aniuar Geduev on Friday in the quarterfinals of men’s freestyle wrestling.