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There's a pretty easy test for whether sports like BJJ, Judo, wrestling, etc. get the best athletes in the US. Just go look at countries where those sports are as remunerative/high status as football or baseball are in the US (relatively speaking): during the Soviet era there was a huge emphasis placed on combat sports, and many of those countries' best athletes went into them. And what did you see? Not only did Eastern Bloc nations dominate in combat sports at the Olympics, the depth they had was spectacular compared to a country like the US. We definitely have a good training system for top tier athletes and could put some people on the podium, but we were never competitive in every weight class in every combat sport like the Soviets were (or, frankly, the Russians are now). You look at someone like Wladimir Klitschko, that guy is born in the US he's a power forward or a tight end, not a boxer. But in Ukraine boxing has more panache than basketball, so they get terrific athletes like the Klitschko bros and Lomachenko going into the sport. You think someone like Alexander Karelin, were he born in the US, becomes a wrestler and not a lineman? It's certainly possible, but even our good HW collegians will often take a try at the NFL because the money is so much better.
A second piece to this argument is just looking at the competitiveness across weight classes. Take MMA: the most competitive weight classes are between BW and WW. Most depth, best athletes. Why is that? Partially it's because more men just happen to fall into those size ranges (walking around between 150 and 200 lbs), but also because if you're bigger than that and a good athlete you probably aren't doing MMA unless you picked it up after an unsuccessful career in some other sport like OSP. I also don't think it's a coincidence that looking at the top 10 of each division that you find more non-Americans in the top ranks in the heavier weight classes. Why? Because those guys come from countries where their size doesn't immediately get them selected for sports like football or basketball, where fighting is a good athletic career option. There are like 2 Americans in the top 10 at LHW, FW is almost all Americans. It's not a coincidence.
A second piece to this argument is just looking at the competitiveness across weight classes. Take MMA: the most competitive weight classes are between BW and WW. Most depth, best athletes. Why is that? Partially it's because more men just happen to fall into those size ranges (walking around between 150 and 200 lbs), but also because if you're bigger than that and a good athlete you probably aren't doing MMA unless you picked it up after an unsuccessful career in some other sport like OSP. I also don't think it's a coincidence that looking at the top 10 of each division that you find more non-Americans in the top ranks in the heavier weight classes. Why? Because those guys come from countries where their size doesn't immediately get them selected for sports like football or basketball, where fighting is a good athletic career option. There are like 2 Americans in the top 10 at LHW, FW is almost all Americans. It's not a coincidence.