The Olympic games are not exactly unexplored territory for MMA fighters. Big names like Dan Henderson, Daniel Cormier, Matt Lindland, Hector Lombard and Ronda Rousey have competed in the games as wrestlers and judo players. More recently, stars Georges St-Pierre and Gegard Mousasi have flirted with the idea of representing their countries in wrestling and boxing, respectively.
In the theoretical world, plenty of fighters make sense, at least on paper, as Olympic competitors. Junior dos Santos, K.J. Noons or Anderson Silva could make a run at a boxing roster if they committed to the training. Any number of grapplers could be respectable wrestling possibilities.
Sometimes, though, the real world is just not enough. Let’s go even deeper down the rabbit hole of wild speculation. What if we took combat sports out of the equation? WHAT THEN?!?!
Here are seven active MMA fighters who could make an Olympic run in a sport outside the fighting arts. Why not?