Olympic Gold Medal or UFC Championship Belt?

Which is a greater accomplishment?

  • Olympic Gold Medal

  • UFC Championship Belt

Results are only viewable after voting.
Serenity Now said:
UFC belt and it's not close.

Why? Because it's a fucking choice, that Adults do and not all Olympic Gold medalist can get.



Most Olympic Gold Medalist are literally kids who have been training since they were kids......They never had a real choice, and had their whole lives controlled by their parents/coach.....Sorry can't really admire that......To me, that's worst than steroids(They are getting a huge advantage over 99% of humans), that's privilege at it's finest.


UFC belts on the other hand are won by adults who chose to get into MMA....and in order for them to become champs, they have to learn some new things/evolve.....That to me is why is much better/more valuable than a damn gold medal.


Not to mention, beating the shit out of people > Olympics
Click to expand...
{<jordan}
 
Depends on the event/sport that the medal is won in IMO.

Statistically it's much harder to win a UFC belt. There have only been 94 UFC champs or 118 UFC Champs if you include the early tournaments and superfight winners.

So 118 people have won UFC gold in 26 years.

In the 2016 olympics there were 307 Gold Medals awarded.

So in the whole time the UFC has been around there have been roughly 2,000 Gold Medals awarded vs 118 UFC champs.
 
No-one is interested in the majority of Olympic sports except once every four years when the media whip up some fake enthusiasm. The IOC have tried to attract some legitimate professional sports - you know the kind that people actually pay to see - but it's a joke, as if a tennis or golf gold medal counts for more than one of the great tournaments.

Of course a UFC belt counts for more than an Olympic gold medal, when crowds actually pay to watch archery or swimming or modern pentathlon then we can talk.
 
Bisping held a UFC belt so that alone discredits it. In the Olympics it's literally the best guy who is winning Gold especially in wrestling where there's less chance of bad judging decisions being made such as boxing in the Olympics.
 
Considering the Olympics only happen every 2 years (summer and winter combined), and there's a title fight at least once a month. Ya, I'm gonna go with a gold medal being harder to attain.
 
In some sports like wrestling or track and field, the Olympics is the pinnacle and a gold medal is the apex.

In other sports like boxing, yeah it's cool you made it through a huge bracket but it's just a stepping stone to going pro.
 
itt retards bragging about their ignorance outside the MMA bubble. What a mess of a thread.
 
nousernamehere said:
UFC belt = Only remembered by the MMA fans who will forget about you and nothing else.
Click to expand...
Don't forget that period time after you lose the belt when MMA fans claim you were overrated, never any good, and proceed to trash every win on your record
 
TheChosenOne said:
Bisping held a UFC belt so that alone discredits it. In the Olympics it's literally the best guy who is winning Gold especially in wrestling where there's less chance of bad judging decisions being made such as boxing in the Olympics.
Click to expand...

I don't understand why Bisping gets clowned on. He only lost to top10 guys and half of them popped for roids. And he beat Silva and Rockhold back to back.

And it's not literally the best guy winning. It's funny that you mention wrestling and boxing because those were the only 2 events left where pro's couldn't compete. And when pro boxers were allowed to compete in 2016, only 3 did.

And why do you think judging is better in the olympics? If anything it's more controversial because judges are more likely to favor athletes from their own countries. The judges and refs come from the places where they judge/ref the sports. So they are literally the same people who normally judge the games and events....so saying their better in the olympics is bad logic.
 
Depends on the sport

If it's rowing or some useless shit like that, then obviously not.

But men's 100m Olympic gold is one of the most coveted accomplishments in sports
 
It's *significantly* harder to gold medal in wrestling than win a UFC belt.

By leaps and bounds.
 
riitzni said:
lol ask Ronda. Olympic medal got her a few grand and a handshake. UFC gold made her a millionaire famous across the world. Got movie roles and shit. Micheal Phelps has more golds than anyone and I've never seen his goofy ass in one direct to DVD swimming competition movie.
Click to expand...

Do you have any idea how much money Phelps made off of sponsors? His net worth is something like $55 million dollars. He doesn't need to be in any terrible movies like Rhonda tries to do.

Ronda's net worth is estimated $12 million. Poor comparison there. I do get your overall point though, it's just that Phelps is not a guy to use for comparison. Use some random Joe Blow who won the shot put gold or something. But then on the other hand you could use some random dude like Nicco Montana who held the 125lb title for like 9 months and is now ranked 10th or something like that.
 
Depends on the division. I wouldn't bet on most HW UFC fighters or former champions to perform well in The Olympics.
 
phatron said:
Depends on the event/sport that the medal is won in IMO.

Statistically it's much harder to win a UFC belt. There have only been 94 UFC champs or 118 UFC Champs if you include the early tournaments and superfight winners.

So 118 people have won UFC gold in 26 years.

In the 2016 olympics there were 307 Gold Medals awarded.

So in the whole time the UFC has been around there have been roughly 2,000 Gold Medals awarded vs 118 UFC champs.
Click to expand...

Yeah but there is a lot more sports athletes involved in the olympics to give those gold medals. If you should narrow down to wrestling and martial arts it would far less gold medals to UFC champs.
 
MXZT said:
Yeah but there is a lot more sports athletes involved in the olympics to give those gold medals. If you should narrow down to wrestling and martial arts it would far less gold medals to UFC champs.
Click to expand...

that wasn't your question. you just asked about a gold medal, not a gold medal in a martial art.
 
Congo66 said:
Every Olympic sport also has higher participation numbers than MMA so getting a gold medal means you're the top of a larger group of people than you are if you win a UFC belt.
Click to expand...

Are you sure? How many professional javelin throwers, for example, there are globally?
 
MXZT said:
Which is a greater accomplishment? Getting an Olympic Gold Medal or a UFC Championship Belt.
Click to expand...

Depends on the sport.

Being on the Olympic men's basketball gold medal team is a much greater accomplishment than a UFC belt (and the guys on that team are making much more money than UFC champions).

Gold medal in say curling is a far lower accomplishment than being a UFC champ (and pays almost nothing). Mind you, in Canada a lot of curlers were more popular than GSP (some of them regularly had 4-5 million people watching their championship games according to official network figures).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Forum statistics

Threads
1,237,073
Messages
55,465,521
Members
174,785
Latest member
JoyceOuthw

Share this page

Back
Top