MMA fighters winning Olympic Medals

[HHJ]

 

[Trigger Dave]

Cormier didn't win olympic medal. He won a bronze in world championship.

 

[World eater]

A better title would be olympic champions who became mma fighters.

 

[hagestad]

Exactly. To my knowledge no mma fighter ever won olympic anything given they were MMA fighter first.

 

[Necrocrawler]

Exactly. To my knowledge no mma fighter ever won olympic anything given they were MMA fighter first.

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An olympic run normally starts at young age while a mma career starts in a middle age
There’s also the business thing where contracts wouldnt let fighters leave for olympics
The closest we got (that i remember) was when Anderson Silva wanted to represent Brazil in tkd.
Even though he didnt seemed serious, the brazilian comission vetoed him

 

[Norcim]

Yoel Romero won silver in the 2000 Olympics but didn't compete in MMA for 8 or 9 years after that.

Edit:
Just looked it up and it appears that Matt Lindland had a few pro MMA fights before getting a silver medal in the 2000 Olympics.

 

[Pequeño Corey]

You’d never know that Cejudo won at the olympics. He never talked about it. Some much humble this guy.

 

[BangBang]

Nice, thanks for posting.

 

[joy2day]

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An olympic run normally starts at young age while a mma career starts in a middle age

Middle age? 40 to 65?

 

[Necrocrawler]

Middle age? 40 to 65?

More like 25 ~ 35
I was thinking regarding the best years for a mma career

 

[joy2day]

More like 25 ~ 35
I was thinking regarding the best years for a mma career

Yes, that is more accurate, but it isn't middle age.

 

[AmericanMMA]

Matt Lindland was a beast… Silver medal.

Randy and Hendo get all the love, but Matt was the best wrestler on Team Quest.

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

more like olympic champions who became mma fighters.

ain't no mma fighter getting a medal at the olympics.

 

[Koala]

 

[Necrocrawler]

Yes, that is more accurate, but it isn't middle age.

The expression was badly used.
My bad. English isnt my first language

 

[joy2day]

There was talk of Lil Nog boxing for Brazil in the Olympics, but he never did. He won a bronze at the Pan-American games though in 2007, which was many years into his MMA career.

 

[Prazeres]

Satoshi Ishii won gold in the olympics in Judo and had a long MMA career where he fought notable names like Fedor, Cro Cop, Jiri and Rampage