Highest Level Wrestlers

[BowserJr]

Who have been the highest level wrestlers to have an mma career, at each weight class and how did they do in mma?

DC- Olympic Silver medalists, HW & LHW champ
Romero- Olympic silver medalist, perennial MW #1 contender

Who else?

 

[tehMoose]

There are a bunch of them in Bellator right now

 

[20falarVerdades]

Cejudo
Chael Sonnen

 

[Deleted member 580830]

There are a bunch of them in Bellator right now

Outside Storley and Davis ?

 

[Iron Skin]

The PFL heavyweight champion is an european champion in Freestyle Wrestling

 

[Rafael MMA]

Matt Lindland - MW - olympic silver medalist, former UFC title challenger

 

[Harlekin]

Who have been the highest level wrestlers to have an mma career, at each weight class and how did they do in mma?

DC- Olympic Silver medalists, HW & LHW champ
Romero- Olympic silver medalist, perennial MW #1 contender

Who else?

When did DC win an olympic silver medal??? He didn't even make bronze and was too fat in 2008

 

[kflo]

Do guys like Kevin Jackson, rulon gardner, karam gaber count?

 

[Iron Skin]

Alexander Romanov competed in multiple world and european competitions, and won a bronze medal in No Gi Grappling.

 

[tehMoose]

Outside Storley and Davis ?

Sry, I was eating. Here is the thread so I don't list them all

https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/...rican-wrestlers-while-the-ufc-is-not.4041019/

 

[kflo]

Interesting article.
https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/22046
Didn’t realize Kenny Monday also had a fight.

 

[FIghtxIQ]

Cejudo probably improved the most in the shortest amount of time.

 

[Deleted member 580830]

Sry, I was eating. Here is the thread so I don't list them all

https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/...rican-wrestlers-while-the-ufc-is-not.4041019/

Excellent, thanks.

 

[tehMoose]

Excellent, thanks.

There are more of them that are not listed there like Pico, Caldwell, Stots, Phil Davis, Yoel, Bader etc

Bellator has a lot of high level wrestlers

 

[The ScorpioN]

GSP highest level non-wrestler wrestler

 

[TheScorpionDude]

Who have been the highest level wrestlers to have an mma career, at each weight class and how did they do in mma?

DC- Olympic Silver medalists, HW & LHW champ
Romero- Olympic silver medalist, perennial MW #1 contender

Who else?

How do you forget tripple C dude...

Also DC doesn't have any Olympic medals. He has a bunch of other medals but not from the Olympics.

 

[g*r*b]

Mark O Madsen, Olympic silver medalist. Unranked, but has a perfect 10-0 record.

 

[TheBrownGosling]

Askren and Hendricks both won 2 National titles in college.

Mark Madsen is an Olympic silver medalist in Greco-Roman
*edit: g*r*b beat me to it

 

[muaytao]

Legend says Henry cejudo has a gold metal

 

[kingmob6]

Randy Couture was an olympic wrestling alternative, Matt Hughes, Jon Jones, Shalorus, Velazquez, Hendo, Mark Coleman, Jon Fitch, Phil Davis, Lesnar, Dan Severn, Hendricks, Weidman - a few here not already mentioned.