Serious Q: why isnt the sport of mma in the olympics?

Emjay said:
Because MMA isn't a sport
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WRONG. MMA IS A SPORT.

What the issue is is the risk of injury and full contact nature, which makes it unsuitable for tournament play.

It won't be suitable for an Olympics format. Combat Sambo could perhaps work.
 
Venom said:
WRONG. MMA IS A SPORT.

What the issue is is the risk of injury and full contact nature, which makes it unsuitable for tournament play.

It won't be suitable for an Olympics format. Combat Sambo could perhaps work.
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Even combat Sambo is too much for Olympics. Perhaps Sports Sambo will be more suitable.
 
You thought NY was a tough state to get into, the Olympics is a whole other story. At this point from a worldwide perspective, mma is not even worth a mention as it is new and considered by many to be a spectacle rather than a real sport.
 
The tournament system works pretty good for tuf, And we had orgs with tournament format.. even same day fights, so that could work(maybe not with WADA), but I doubt the main stream would like it, And the blood would be unacceptable.

They could do it with helmet, thicker gloves, removing the More dangerous submission, no knees, no elbows, And no groundstrikes, but that wouldn't look much like mma...
 
Imagine all the lifelong "amateur" mma fighters not going pro so they can continue hunting olympic gold.What a mess that would be.Unless unlike boxing pro fighters would be allowed in the olympics.That's all a moot point,it would never or at least not for a long time be brought into the olympics,no fucking way for a million reasons.
 
Kumason said:
Imagine all the lifelong "amateur" mma fighters not going pro so they can continue hunting olympic gold.What a mess that would be.Unless unlike boxing pro fighters would be allowed in the olympics.That's all a moot point,it would never or at least not for a long time be brought into the olympics,no fucking way for a million reasons.
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Why not? Let's make a new "mma" point-system style to suit the PG rating of the Olympics. With 10 ounces gloves and protective headwear
 
Because athletes are required to compete in the Olympics.
 
When the Olympics was revived, one sport from the ancient games was specifically excluded ... pankration, which was basically mma.

And thank heaven's for that, boxing, judo, taekwondo have all been emasculated in order to be acceptable to the Olympics
 
If MMA was treated as a real sport it would have to be almost all wrestlers at the top, because a ref would not stand you up or pull you off the cage like they do in UFC (to try and force a more entertaining fight aka force a KO to happen), you could just hold someone down the entire fight, in which case why not just do away with strikes and call it olympic wrestling.
 
People saying the amateurs are awful, this may be true but if it became an Olympic sport couldn't it also made its way into high schools etc like wrestling is? I'm from the UK mind so don't know exactly how things work over there.
 
Quietus said:
If MMA was treated as a real sport it would have to be almost all wrestlers at the top, because a ref would not stand you up or pull you off the cage like they do in UFC (to try and force a more entertaining fight aka force a KO to happen), you could just hold someone down the entire fight, in which case why not just do away with strikes and call it olympic wrestling.
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It's not forcing anything it's simply boring as fuck and stalling, how can you call one guy lying on top of the other doing nothing a fight? All sports have rules.
 
Grijswaarde said:
That would require a tounament format... and that would result in a lot of injuries and incomplete matches. Would never work. Also too much blood to be mainstream. Let's be realistic.
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pankration was the original olympic sport, it was a tournament without weight classes and with only one grand champion. i think they trailed a toned down version at athens.
 
eternaldarkness said:
pankration was the original olympic sport, it was a tournament without weight classes and with only one grand champion. i think they trailed a toned down version at athens.
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But that was 2500 years ago. The modern olympics are all about fair play, respect, equality etc. Their image just does not allow a sport like MMA to be part of it. Not saying an MMA fight can't have those values, just saying the general public will never see it that way.

And they kinda have a point.. goal of MMA is to (seriously) hurt your opponent.
 
Askafan said:
When the Olympics was revived, one sport from the ancient games was specifically excluded ... pankration, which was basically mma.

And thank heaven's for that, boxing, judo, taekwondo have all been emasculated in order to be acceptable to the Olympics
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pankration makes modern mma look tame. its all fun and games until someone loses an eye, is actually a saying that dates back to the original pankration. one guy actually died and still won the fight because the other dude tapped.
 
there are some really knarly stories from old school pankration, definitely worth checking out.
 
Talent pool is too shalllow. Maybe 30 years later.

Plus it's gonna be something like 2 3-minute rounds, no knees or elbows, helmets and shin pads are required etc.

We already got a watered down MMA and that's combat sambo. No need to reinvent a wheel.
 
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Rdude92 said:
Boxing , judo, taekwando, even wrestling and Greco-Roman wrestling is in the Olympics to boost the sports.

Why not have MMA (combined form of all those martial arts and more) in the most grand stage of Sports competition of the whole planet Earth?
What's the main reason mma is not promoted and accepted worldwide? Is it too bloody a sport?
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I want to see a young 18 year old gold medalist Olympic mma champion getting signed in by the UFC and winning the belt when he is 23 . Is this not possible? Please make this happen world. It would be fun to watch.
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I believe some sort of amateur MMA could eventually be introduced into the Olympics with modified rules. Also, most regular people and especially governing bodies are huge hypocrites and would never allow cage fighting because it's too "barbaric", so it would have to be in the ring or on a mat.
 
Who knows, it maybe in 15 to 20 years. Though I bet it'll similar to Olympic boxing v's professional... Point based, more than than professional.
 
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