The fact that Dake and Taylor were both blocked from the team by multiple people at multiple weights makes it tough for me to accept them onto a Mount Rushmore. It's ultimately just opinion, and they are simultaneously all right and all wrong so let's just enjoy the fact that we have had such an amazing run of success lately that we can "nitpick" p4p's and 5x champs because it wasn't like this for a reeeeaaaalllllll loooooooooooooong time.
Dake was blocked by Burroughs and Cox. He has also racked up hardware at three weights. Good problem?
Burroughs record: 3-7
2013 WTT 2x
2015 WTT 2x
2017 US Open (they both wrestled full brackets)
2017 WTT 2x (1 win)
2020ne OTT 0 losses 2 wins (finally broke through 10 years after JB's first gold medal)
Cox losses:
2016 OTT 2x
Taylor was blocked by Burroughs, Dake, and Cox. He was also the p4p best in the world at one point and completely pwned the guy who may have gone down as one of, if not the best of all time if it wasn't for the Magic Man. But like JB said "I made you disappear from 74, who's the magic man now?" which may have been the corniest most savage heel turn ever.
Burroughs record: 0-5
2013 US Open 2x (they both wrestled full brackets)
2014 US Open 1x (they both wrestled full brackets)
2014 WTT 2x
Dake record: 0-5
2012 OTT 1x
2013 WTT 1x
2015 WTT 1x
2015 US Nationals 1x (first time bumping up to 86kg)
2016 OTT 1x
Cox record: 1-2 (couldn't make it to him at 2016 OTT lost to Dake, who then lost to Cox)
2017 WTT 2x (1 win)