Why don't we see any elite Olympic wrestlers compete in mma?

[Jet blazear]

I'm talking medalists, the only one I can think of right now is Matt Lindland. Are there an others? You'd figure they'd make more in mma than the Olympics. I for one would love to see some of those crazy Russian wrestlers compete. What say you guys?

[The Wolf]

Because theyre pussies.. pussies fuck dicks chuck

[Sub Zero]

I would like to see an American wrestler who wins gold sign with the UFC or Bellator after the games, but wrestlers who win medals become a national hero wherever theyre from, so they probably dont even need the money from MMA. Some other wrestlers whove won medals and then went to MMA are

Rulon Gardner
Katsuhiko Nagata
Kevin Jackson
Mark Schultz
The guy Kid Yamamoto KOd a few years ago
Yoel Romero

[soulcrusher]

Hendo won a medal I think, Years ago there was Kevin Jackson but he did not fight that long. I know there are others but not any real current ones.

[Jet blazear]

I didn't think hendo won a medal from the Olympics, but I'm really talking about those Russian bastards.

[Jet blazear]

Because theyre pussies.. pussies fuck dicks chuck

This explains a lot, thanks.

[soulcrusher]

I didn't think hendo won a medal from the Olympics, but I'm really talking about those Russian bastards.

They probably have to do what the leadership in that country tells them to do. LOL!!!

[oddtopsy]

I would like to see an American wrestler who wins gold sign with the UFC or Bellator after the games, but wrestlers who win medals become a national hero wherever theyre from, so they probably dont even need the money from MMA. Some other wrestlers whove won medals and then went to MMA are

Rulon Gardner
Katsuhiko Nagata
Kevin Jackson
Mark Schultz
The guy Kid Yamamoto KOd a few years ago
Yoel Romero

Alexander Karelin

[oddtopsy]

if you count throwing your opponent in a match as mma

[killemall]

They don't like mma.

[Crunchie]

I think the trend will start to change, you can see more and more cross over.

http://www.bellator.com/ViewArticle....B_OEM_ID=23600

[Jet blazear]

That's good news, also I think with these lower weight classes we will see more decorated wrestlers make the switch.

[ferg[adr]]

hendo never actually won a medal in the olympics. i think the guys who do are too focused on wrestling to care about fighting in MMA. to be at that level, you have to be focused totally on it. maybe an olympics winner will try soon, MMA is getting huge.

[aussjj]

Because few Americans medal in Olympic wrestling.

[ninjashoes]

They don't like getting punched in the face,

You have to be crazy to do MMA, even crazier to do it successfully.

Why do you think MMA fighters are such a crazy caste of piss drinking, wife slapping, running through the forrests of Thailand dodging the Thai mafia...mofo's?

[Radar]

After getting raped at the 2008 Olympics, the 24-year-old Ben Askren was asked if inexperience was a factor.

Though he was a two-time NCAA champion at the University of Missouri he was relatively new to freestyle after wrestling folkstyle in college.

"That wasn't it," he said with tears in his eyes, "I just wasn't good enough. I sucked."

[Don]

Cos Greco-Homo is the gayest shit I have ever seen. I had to switch it off.

[Jet blazear]

Because few Americans medal in Olympic wrestling.

This is true. Maybe the Russian wrestlers just see the Olympics as honorable, mma not so much.

[Jet blazear]

They don't like getting punched in the face,

You have to be crazy to do MMA, even crazier to do it successfully.

Why do you think MMA fighters are such a crazy caste of piss drinking, wife slapping, running through the forrests of Thailand dodging the Thai mafia...mofo's?

Randy couture tried for 16 years to make the Olympic team. I think there's some wrestlers out there that fit that description.

[Snake]

I know the Greco guys over here don't like MMA guys from person experience so I'm assuming that Greco wrestlers don't like MMA.