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01-02-2007, 05:46 PM
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01-02-2007, 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Bomber
I may be wrong, but I would guess football is the biggest sport in the US today. IMO neither North American style football nor MMA will ever be Olympic sports. Nothing to back it up, just my opinion.
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Football is the biggest/ most watched sport in the US...
I have a question...people have been saying that the Olympics is suppose to be filled with "amateur athletics"...I'm confused...for the Olympic basketball team they sent all the major players from NBA teams there and for tennis, they send the best players in the world to compete--Federor, Nadal, Roddick etc...They are by no means amateurs...maybe someone can clear that up for me…
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01-02-2007, 06:25 PM
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olympic snowboarding only had pros in it also.
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01-02-2007, 06:31 PM
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Sub grappling could be an Olympic sport one day.
But MMA never will.
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01-02-2007, 06:35 PM
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drop curling (sorry to all the canadians on the board)
add sub grap
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01-02-2007, 06:45 PM
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Champion
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watching curling while drunk
is a great time
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01-02-2007, 06:47 PM
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Champion
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vegas mma
watching curling while drunk
is a great time
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lol i bet but
.....what about playing curling drunk?
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01-02-2007, 08:09 PM
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Top Prospect
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Maybe people in the US would actually watch the olympics if it had UFC! 
Sorry, I can't stand to watch the olympics.
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01-03-2007, 02:43 AM
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In Tyler we trust
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Yeah, I think this 'amateur' mantra that exists around the Olympics is total BS.
First off, half the olympic sports allow pro players; basketball, tennis, ice hockey, etc.
Secondly, I don't call a person who can run 100m in under 10seconds an 'amateur' They are the most elite athletes in the world and the term amateur is misused when referring to them. Amateur means nothing when it comes to these athletes. Amateur status basically dictates their pay cheque.
I think they should just drop the 'amateur' pretense and let it slip into history; these guys aren't 'amateurs.'
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01-03-2007, 04:13 AM
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Up and Coming
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MuStAnG12687
Football is the biggest/ most watched sport in the US...
I have a question...people have been saying that the Olympics is suppose to be filled with "amateur athletics"...I'm confused...for the Olympic basketball team they sent all the major players from NBA teams there and for tennis, they send the best players in the world to compete--Federor, Nadal, Roddick etc...They are by no means amateurs...maybe someone can clear that up for me…
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I can.... sort of anyways..... each sport has it's own ruling body on the olympic commitee, and it is up by each sport to decide whether or not to allow professionals or not. I am not sure about all sports, but i followed the proceeding fairly closely when they were trying to figure it out for Hockey, which also has pro's at the olympics. Hockey had the iihf (international ice hockey federation) vote to decide whether or not pros should be allowed, it happened right before Nagano.
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01-03-2007, 04:16 AM
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I must say the i agree with imdaman here. They may as well just drop the mantra of it being for Amateurs. It barely happens in any Olympic sport, and i'm sure if the Gymnasts and Ice dancers were older than 13, it would get more people to watch for sure... lol.... I mean, who doesn't like girls in tight clothes jumping around ?
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01-03-2007, 04:20 AM
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But it does seem odd to me, that they have Wrestling, Boxing, Karate, Kickboxing, Judo and Tae Kwon Do at the Olympics, but yet, if you mix them together, it is not ?
Yes, i know some MMA "ingredients" (Muay Thai, etc) aren't there... but still.
I think we might see it as an Olympic Sport sooner than anyone thinks.
And about Football..... i think that it is not in the Olympics because it generally isn't played across the world. I don't watch alot of Football myself, but i have never heard of an NFL superstar from oversea's.... even just Canadians are pretty rare.
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03-22-2007, 08:29 PM
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MMA in the olympics...
what do you guys think about mma being put into the Olympics one day, i think it would be great because of the skills needed and the many nationalities of mma.
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03-22-2007, 09:06 PM
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MMA in the Olympics is a dream. However, I for one, won´t stop dreaming about it. It could be possible, but the rules of MMA are still to broad for the Olympic´s to settle with certain regulations, and then you got the brutality factor. Some are old school and don´t want to see sports like MMA in the Olympics. We can only hope that there is a generation change at the Olympic´s and they adapt to the 21st century.
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03-22-2007, 11:10 PM
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the hardest thing would be having unified regulations..to much countries with different regulations..well after the next summer games they got 4 years to past out regulated rules could see this happening..i think we will see jui jitsu reach the olympics before mma
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03-22-2007, 11:35 PM
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Look at boxing in the Olympics. Do you think MMA would work with the headgear? I'm sure they'd want the fighters to sue bigger gloves, which would impede submission attempts, too. And while we're on submissions, which ones do you think would get thrown out because of threat of injury? All the chokes most likely. You can't have a the Olympic trainers (medical staff) getting more airtime than the fighters themselves.
The Olympics are already host to events that provide a stable base to MMA transitions and that is where it needs to stay.
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03-23-2007, 08:17 AM
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I saw an old Igor fight on youtube with submission in where the fighters had larger gloves. (Not totally contradicting just saying its not impossible)
Despite the inroads UFC is making MMA is still a marginal, 'illigitimate' sport outside of Japan. I'm not sure I'd expect it to ever happen really.
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03-23-2007, 12:40 PM
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MMA is too brutal to be an Olympic sport. even when a guy wins he's often too smashed up to fight for 3 or more months. you'd end up with a cross between RINGS and old Pancrase. no striking on the ground and open hand strikes to the head only with guys wearing headgear and shin guards.
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05-18-2007, 09:40 AM
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Up and Coming
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MMA 2012 Olympics possible?
With the UFC looking to start a commision in the UK and NFAC starting up, anyone think they will add MMA to the olympics at 2012.
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05-18-2007, 10:05 AM
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No chance. Especially since a lot of people still think that it is a bloodsport. I doubt it will ever be in the olympics in the way that we know it. The small gloves, elbows etc will just be too much for a lot of people i think.
Also, boxing was first introduced into the olympics in 1904, hundreds of years after boxing was born.
p.s shouldnt this be in the arena?
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