Thread: GSP wants to wrestle in the Olympics? It's not that easy
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Old 11-19-2009, 03:09 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by The Mask View Post
also surely if you train mma you must train wrestling both as just wrestling and then wrestling for mma. like at my place we train bjj as just bjj, as well as bjj for mma.
no... there are things that are done in olympic style wrestling that are not applicable to MMA at all... and BIG things. Such as once you take someone down you have to turn them. to get back points. That is a fucking bitch to do let alone the difficulty and pain (especially a gutwrench) it takes to try and stop someone from turning you if you get taken down.


Seriously if GSP ever stepped foot on an olympic mat, he would get teched in about 20 seconds. that means that he would be beat by more than six points and the round ends.... he then has another round to make that up and he would be teched again just as fast. then the match would be over.

In fact you will never see any MMA fighter training the ground wrestling you would see from olympic style fighting. If GSP were to say he was going to enter the NCAA tournament that would be a different story because of the ground fighting rules as long as he stayed off his back.
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