UFC Corridor of Famer and former two-division world champion Daniel Cormier firmly believes Olympic gold medalist Amit Elor will make waves on the earth of combined martial arts as soon as she’s completed dominating the novice wrestling scene.
As a two-time Olympian and the coach of a highschool wrestling workforce, Cormier has at all times stored a detailed eye on the game that’s stayed close to and pricey to his coronary heart lengthy after he traded within the headgear for a pair of four-ounce gloves. Doing so has allowed him to work with and practice alongside previous, current, and future Olympians, together with Elor.
“Somewhat backstory, Amit Elor used to at all times be across the Bay space with a girl named Carolyn Wester, she coached at a membership referred to as Wrestling Prep and he or she teaches wrestling,” Cormier mentioned on The Fighter vs. The Writer. “She’s a woman that coaches and he or she’s an amazing coach, very sensible woman.
“She would convey Amit into [American Kickboxing Academy]. I didn’t know who she was however she would wrestle with the boys. I’ve all these photos of Amit, and Carolyn would take photos of Amit with the workforce. That’s one factor they do in MMA gyms. On the finish of observe, everyone will get collectively for a photograph. Amit’s in a number of these photos” (h/t MMA Fighting).
At 20 years previous, Elor grew to become the youngest American to win a gold medal in wrestling, a file beforehand held by Henry Cejudo. She kicked off her event with a dominant 10-2 victory over 2023 reigning world champion Buse Tosun Çavuşoğlu of Turkey, adopted by back-to-back shutouts towards Poland’s Wiktoria Chołuj and Meerim Zhumanazarova of Kyrgyzstan.
Elor outscored her opponents by a surprising margin of 30-2 all through her run on the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris.
“She killed it,” Cormier mentioned of Elor. “That first match, speak about dangerous luck. The World Champion from the yr earlier than from that weight class will get the World Champion from the load up in her very first match. [Elor] destroys her. She went onto kill the remainder of the sector after that.”
‘DC’ stresses that Amit Elor ought to solely pursue MMA as soon as reaching her objectives in wrestling
With the Summer Olympics scheduled to go down in her residence state of California in 2028, Elor’s focus will likely be on bringing residence one other gold medal. However when the time does come for Elor to hold up her singlet, ‘DC’ thinks the Walnut Creek native might do some critical harm in four-ounce gloves.
“She’s going to struggle,” Cormier mentioned. “She’s going to be a fighter. For pretty much as good as she is in wrestling, she does rather well in judo, she does super in jiu-jitsu. If she does begin doing [MMA] competitively, they’re going to be in hassle.”
He continued,“I really like when nice wrestlers come into combined martial arts, however I’m at all times for them doing it after they’re completed chasing their Olympic desires. You don’t get to try this once more. If in case you have a possibility to be the perfect on the earth, you chase that so long as you’ll be able to and then you definately go do one thing completely different. I don’t suppose it ought to be coming sooner than wanted.
“You go and wrestle so long as you must wrestle, and then you definately come to try to make the cash because the UFC fighter.”
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