What Burroughs and to a large extent Snyder have done in Stars and Stripes, in the modern ‘competitive climate’..Post-Soviet, International Free Agency) carries a lot of weight for me.
In the John Smith days you had a group of three or four Russians training together for the purpose of that one guy beating Smith.
In the Burroughs days you have the same group of Russians training together, but they all got a shot at him in the bracket.
Not to downplay anything or anyone, but these are fun talks of picking straws, and that’s a pretty big straw.