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There's a good pipeline of college wrestlers entering MMA, and we all know how important wrestling skills are in the sport. What do you think about this influx and how MMA allows wrestlers to have professional careers in a combat sport?
Well, I really wish there was a professional avenue for just wrestlers. I think wrestling is a very exciting sport. If you look at some of the sports that aren't nearly as exciting and have a professional avenue, I think it's very unfortunate wrestlers have to get involved in fighting and striking and all these other things.
That said, wrestling is the most important aspect in mixed martial arts and the very best base to enter mixed martial arts from. I think wrestlers across the board have been the most successful entrants in mixed martial arts. They get to dictate where the fight takes place, whether it's standing up or on the ground. If you can't stop the wrestlers from taking you down, they're going to impose their will upon you. I just wish they had an avenue and someone figured out how to promote wrestling correctly. I know they tried; they did that failed professional wrestling thing for a while, but it never really caught on. It's unfortunate.
I don't think wrestling is boring, I think it can be very exciting. Baseball players can make millions of dollars in a sport that I can't watch; I fall asleep. But wrestlers can't. I don't know what it is, and I don't know how to fix it. It is what it is. It's sort of embedded in our culture.
There's a good pipeline of college wrestlers entering MMA, and we all know how important wrestling skills are in the sport. What do you think about this influx and how MMA allows wrestlers to have professional careers in a combat sport?
Well, I really wish there was a professional avenue for just wrestlers. I think wrestling is a very exciting sport. If you look at some of the sports that aren't nearly as exciting and have a professional avenue, I think it's very unfortunate wrestlers have to get involved in fighting and striking and all these other things.
That said, wrestling is the most important aspect in mixed martial arts and the very best base to enter mixed martial arts from. I think wrestlers across the board have been the most successful entrants in mixed martial arts. They get to dictate where the fight takes place, whether it's standing up or on the ground. If you can't stop the wrestlers from taking you down, they're going to impose their will upon you. I just wish they had an avenue and someone figured out how to promote wrestling correctly. I know they tried; they did that failed professional wrestling thing for a while, but it never really caught on. It's unfortunate.
I don't think wrestling is boring, I think it can be very exciting. Baseball players can make millions of dollars in a sport that I can't watch; I fall asleep. But wrestlers can't. I don't know what it is, and I don't know how to fix it. It is what it is. It's sort of embedded in our culture.
