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All the top LHWs couldn't make it in football and/or wrestling

flakxd said:
Jon Jones
Rumble Johnson
Ryan Bader
OSP
DC
Etc


I'm sure it's like this in other divisions as well. Some had a decent amateur career in football/wrestling, but they simply couldn't hack it at the highest levels in either sport. Now they are dominant and elite in mma....the very best in the world.

Can't wait until the higher level American athletes start getting into mma. I realize America's elite will never get into the sport, but it will be fun once some of the better athletes start taking notice.
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bwhahahahaha dc the captain of the american olympic wreslting team couldnt cut it in wrestling .... osp played football for ut so he definitely cut it at a d1 school. ryan bader the 2 time all American and 2 time top 8 div 1 at 197 lbs again in division 1. the only one u can kinda target on that list is rumble who was also a jaco national champion himself which is still nothing to turn your head at.
 
flakxd said:
Jon Jones
Rumble Johnson
Ryan Bader
OSP
DC
Etc


I'm sure it's like this in other divisions as well. Some had a decent amateur career in football/wrestling, but they simply couldn't hack it at the highest levels in either sport. Now they are dominant and elite in mma....the very best in the world.

Can't wait until the higher level American athletes start getting into mma. I realize America's elite will never get into the sport, but it will be fun once some of the better athletes start taking notice.
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Not sure about the wrestling part, but once the money is good you'll see crazy talent come in. Sadly, how things are being run, there is not NFL type money to be had yet.
 
Fluffernutter said:
Jones - Made it to Iowa State.
Rumble - JUCO national champion
Bader - DI AA
OSP - State champ wrestler in high school and DI football player. Scholarship to college/
DC - Olympian
Etc. - Latin expression that means "and other things", or "and so forth" or "yadi yada". It is taken directly from the Latin expression, which literally means "and the rest"
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Thanks for making the rest of us not have to do any work to prove how stupid TS's thread was. ;)
 
And there are plenty of footballers and wrestlers that couldn't make it in MMA.
They're different sports. Just because you have the body to fight, it doesn't mean you can take punches to the face, master multiple martial arts, and game plan on the spot as you have a shin closing in on your dome.
 
SmilinDesperado said:
And there are plenty of footballers and wrestlers that couldn't make it in MMA.
They're different sports. Just because you have the body to fight, it doesn't mean you can take punches to the face, master multiple martial arts, and game plan on the spot as you have a shin closing in on your dome.
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True but it's not that simple.

If you take Lebron James and raise him with the dream of becoming a MMA champ, he'll wreck everyone.

MMA is still a fringe sport with not that much money in it compared to NBA/NFL
 
So this thread is invalid and it's considered trolling cause DC was a good wrestler, but he wasn't successful at the highest level?

Congrats on some of the other guys being decent wrestlers at school, but they weren't elite internationally either.

All played football growing up, but they weren't very good at that either.
 
flakxd said:
So this thread is invalid and it's considered trolling cause DC was a good wrestler, but he wasn't successful at the highest level?
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So you have to win the gold medal to be considered successful? You do realize that almost no athlete could be considered successful in that case, right?
 
Yea this is a dumb thread wrestlers really have no where else to go after college but to mma lhw is littered with former d1 wrestlers.
 
AmazingGebi said:
True but it's not that simple.

If you take Lebron James and raise him with the dream of becoming a MMA champ, he'll wreck everyone.

MMA is still a fringe sport with not that much money in it compared to NBA/NFL
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He'll wreck everyone because hes a great basketball player?

Here let me try:

If you take Tiger Woods... and raise him with the dream of becoming an MMA champ, he'll wreck everyone.
 
Thread doesn't make sense because in MMA, fighters who were far inferior wrestlers have become better fighters than those vastly superior. So we have a case of two athletes who competed in the same sport, wrestling, where one way markedly better, and yet when they got into MMA, the "inferior" athlete became better at MMA. This proves there is not a direct translation.
 
fatlipjesus said:
He'll wreck everyone because hes a great basketball player?

Here let me try:

If you take Tiger Woods... and raise him with the dream of becoming an MMA champ, he'll wreck everyone.
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lol golf isn't a sport. It's like bowling but you have to walk a little.

Try again.
 
AmazingGebi said:
True but it's not that simple.

If you take Lebron James and raise him with the dream of becoming a MMA champ, he'll wreck everyone.

MMA is still a fringe sport with not that much money in it compared to NBA/NFL
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What if you took Lebrun with dreams of being a boxer? Or a shot putter? Or a bodybuilder?
 
bubby said:
What if you took Lebrun with dreams of being a boxer? Or a shot putter? Or a bodybuilder?
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Reality is that he is gifted and has superior genetics. He'll dominate at all those things.
 
AmazingGebi said:
Reality is that he is gifted and has superior genetics. He'll dominate at all those things.
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I seriously doubt that. But this is a pointless discussion since neither side can provide proof for their arguments.
 
AmazingGebi said:
Reality is that he is gifted and has superior genetics. He'll dominate at all those things.
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Yeah, when people are born, they have a set number of athleticism skill points to allow them to succeed at any of their athleticism rolls at a higher level.

You're fucking stupid. Being great at one sport doesn't mean you would be great at all of them, and that doesn't make one sport better than the other.

Unless you think that literally every athlete ever failed at basketball or football before "settling" on their sport.
 
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