Olympic Combat Sports/MMA

[NHB7]

Mods I hope we can keep the thread here as we can anticipate at least a few of these athletes will transition to MMA.

I was curious how the countries that most populate MMA (USA, Brazil, Canada, Russia, Japan, Great Britian, South Korea) did in Olympic Combats Sports this year. Here is what I found:

Country (# of Athletes) Gold+Silver+Bronze=Total

Wrestling:

Russia (18) 4+3+2=9
Japan (10): 4+3+0=7
USA (14): 2+0+1=3
Canada(8): 1+0+0=1
South Korea (5) 0+0+1=1
Brazil (5): 0+0+0=0
Great Britian (0): 0+0+0=0


Judo:

Japan (14): 3+8+1=12
Russia(12): 2+0+1=3
USA (6): 1+1+0=2
Brazil (14): 1+0+2=3
South Korea (12) 0+2+1=3
Great Britian (7): 0+0+1=1
Canada(7): 0+0+0=0

Boxing:

Russia (11): 1+1+3=5
Great Britian (12): 1+1+1=3
USA (8): 1+1+1=3
Brazil (9): 1+0+0=1
Canada (3): 0+0+0=0
Japan (2): 0+0+0=0
South Korea (1): 0+0+0=0

TKD:

South Korea (5): 2+0+3=5
Great Britian (4): 1+1+1=3
Russia (3): 0+1+0=1
USA (4): 0+0+1=1
Brazil (4): 0+0+1=0
Canada (1): 0+0+0=0
Japan (1): 0+0+0=0

Totals:

Percentage is the percent of their competitors who medaled.

Japan (27): 7+11+1=19 (70%)
Russia (44): 7+5+6=18 (41%)
USA (32): 4+2+3=9 (28%)
South Korea (23): 2+2+5=9 (39%)
Great Britian (23): 2+2+3=7 (30%)
Brazil (33): 2+0+3=5 (15%)
Canada (19) 1+0+0=1 (5%)

 

[NHB7]

Japan kinda kicked ass this year.

 

[Asurah]

Japan can thank it's women's wrestling team for a quarter of their medals and over half of their gold (from combat sports), one of the most dominant sports teams/programs ever. Japan also destroyed Judo as expected. South Korea under performed a little in Judo this year, they usually nab a gold or 2 in it.

 

[EndlessCritic]

Japan kinda kicked ass this year.

japan kicks ass every year because they own women's wrestling.

 

[NHB7]

japan kicks ass every year because they own women's wrestling.

Hopefully some of their women transition to MMA.

 

[Asurah]

Hopefully some of their women transition to MMA.

Kanako Murata already has and is 3-0 in under a year since beginning MMA training. She was a Junior champ and would have likely made bigger waves internationally but was stuck behind one of the GOATs in Saori Yoshida. She definitely is one of the higher skilled wrestling crossovers in WMMA and is only 23 years old. She's getting a big step up at the next RIZIN event against Kyra Batara.

Miyu Yamamoto is old now but she was a multiple time world champ and is making her MMA debut at the next RIZIN event. There have been rumors that Saori Yoshida will begin MMA training after the Olympics.

 

[Kinger85]

I realize there is cross over and future MMA fighters, but I don't care one bit about the combat sports at the Olympics.

 

[Katsumi Yamada]

A couple of points...

1. The next Olympics is in Japan so...I think most of these Japanese athletes would like to compete there before transitioning to MMA, if they even want to.
2. The boxing numbers are skewed towards Russia, because the boxing judges at this Olympics were completly crooked.
3. Brazilian % is lower because, as the hosts, they are entitled to enter athletes in every single event... which they normally wouldn't do

 

[Katsumi Yamada]

On a positive note, the next Olympics in japan will have Karate, which could showcase some amazing future mma strikers

 

[BeardotheWeirdo]

A couple of points...

1. The next Olympics is in Japan so...I think most of these Japanese athletes would like to compete there before transitioning to MMA, if they even want to.
2. The boxing numbers are skewed towards Russia, because the boxing judges at this Olympics were completly crooked.
3. Brazilian % is lower because, as the hosts, they are entitled to enter athletes in every single event... which they normally wouldn't do

Good points, I just want to point out that the Olympic boxing judges are always corrupt, it wasn't unique to this Olympics.

 

[JacJeanFinger]

Why don't they just add "kickboxing" ? Anyone from striking schools can compete....Karate, TKD, Muey Thai, Kung-Fu or Kempo.

If they agreed to allow another Japanese traditional martial art, it should be Kendo (swordmanship) light years before Karate.

TKD should be removed from Olympic programs for an obvious reason.

 

[JacJeanFinger]

Speaking of Karate, I've been often wondering how one of the JFK eyewitnesses Daniel Botsford was killed by Karate Chop.

They shouldn't be joking about someone's death. Karate Chop is a blocking move, not a fetal blow if thrown without holding a metal weapon.

 

[InfinityLens]

Why don't they just add "kickboxing" ? Anyone from striking schools can compete....Karate, TKD, Muey Thai, Kung-Fu or Kempo.

If they agreed to allow another Japanese traditional martial art, it should be Kendo (swordmanship) light years before Karate.

TKD should be removed from Olympic programs for an obvious reason.

Which is...?

 

[NHB7]

Which is...?

I don't know his answer, but my guess would be that TKD is a fine enough martial art, but TKD tournaments and especially the Olympic version is an embarrassingly watered down version of actual TKD.