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Freestyle dominates international competition
Once in a while a great athlete emerges from the American canstyle who can easily adopt freestyle into his game and provide some competition
Honestly thats the most frustrating part in that we all know that America has the athletes and the infrastructure to dominate the sport just like we used to prior to the Soviet Union
If athletes like Snyder and Burroughs practiced International wrestling in well FUNDED PUBLIC facilities from birth wrestling would be enshrined in the Olympics forever because we would have multiple American champions in every cycle and big American advertisers would be showering the Sport with money
The Soviet blocks Sports infrastructure investment program outpaced us by putting training centers all over its vast Empire that allowed poor kids and rich kids to have equal access to Olympic sports
We build all kinds of free sports infrastructure for basketball football soccer however martial arts and Combat Sports are largely left to the Private Industry who has a profit motive and a legal liability protocol
Folk style wrestling dominates American MMA not because it's the best style but because it's the last publicly-funded combat sport in America
https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/the-real-reason-wrestlers-dominate-the-ufc-american-mma.3959991/