Buttery Bros chronicle crazy 2020 CrossFit Games season from inside bubble as sport wades through controversy and Covid-19
- Documentarian duo Heber Cannon and Marston Sawyers had cameras running through the sport’s wild 2020 season
- Covid-19 and the controversy that saw the ouster of founder Greg Glassman are all explored in ‘Resurgence’, which chronicles the entire season
The former CrossFit Inc. employees are now known as the Buttery Bros and run a successful YouTube channel where they work out and hang with various CrossFit stars, among other athletes. They have done five documentaries related to CrossFit, four of them chronicling past games including “The Fittest”, which dives into the 2019 season, but none would have come close to the craziness of last year.
Sawyers said there were points during 2020 where they thought this was the end of CrossFit, in a number of senses.
“Absolutely, I didn’t know what was going to happen,” said Sawyers. “It kind of felt like the whole CrossFit community might just burn.”
Cannon and Sawyers were in their home base of Salt Lake City, Utah, getting ready for the West Coast Classic last spring, a sanctional competition where athletes could qualify for the games, when the world began to shut down due to Covid-19.
