Strikeforce Middleweight Champion Cung Le On ESPNEWS Today
Posted by Kris Karkoski on Jul 16, 2008 at 11:30 am ET16 Comments
Strikeforce middleweight champion Cung Le will be a guest on today’s edition of ESPNEWS’ “The Hot List”. He is slated to appear on the show at 5:10pm ET.
Le won the Strikeforce middleweight title with a third-round TKO victory over Frank Shamrock in March. After compiling a 17-0 record in San Shou and a 3-0 record in K-1, Le made his highly anticipated MMA debut in early-2006 and hasn’t looked back since, winning all six of his MMA bouts via knockout.
Among the topics Le is expected to address during the appearance is the growth of mixed martial arts and the possibility of MMA as an Olympic sport.
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If he can sell an Olympic bid to the world wide leader that could be the first step! Now that is something that I would love to see!
But if they did would Dana let his fighters compete?
MMA as an Olympic sport! That would be “amazing”! I hate the word amazing cuz it is so overused but I think this calls for it. NY won’t saction MMA but it’s a possibility as a world sport? Wow!
If you made a $ in your sport you shouldn’t be in The Olympics don’t care for “dream teamers” they followed their dream to the NBA and the bank.
i dont want to see mma in the olympic, it would turn into a joke leave the olympic to the runners
I watched his fight with Shamrock, and am I the only one who wasn’t impressed? After watching so much UFC, they almost seemed to be moving in slow, clunky motion. Idk, could be wrong but I don’t see this guy being much of a threat if he came to the UFC.
Johnny,
I agree he hasn’t beaten anyone but a couple guys from TUF and an over the hill Frank Shamrock who clearly wasn’t into the fight whatsoever, but to Strikeforce that’s top notch competition…he could maybe notch a couple wins in the UFC but I don’t see him taking out Bisping to be real honest.
Dietrich,
You sure? Do you know how many of those elite athletes make a living because they participate in their sport? Almost all…
By the way… The year we had the Dream Team, the NBA actually voted against using their players in the games…
MMA as an Olympic sport would increase the popularity and would do nothing but help the sport as a whole.
Imagine a wrestling type atmosphere, a tournament style competition with all of the top fighters in the world! FOR FREE! NO PPV…. Bring it on!
mma in the olympics would be so awesome……imagine matches like
cung le vs anderson silva
fedor vs randy couture
bj penn vs gomi
gsp vs jake shields
oh my gosh that would be so awesome dream matches would be so cool!
It could happen, but the IOC would have to view things like us and not like NY.
Curtis,
Yep I am sure. I grew up in the Cold War nd know all to well about the sponsored athletes. Just because the other country does it doesn’t mean we should. Even if we lose. In Economics its called the Law of Comaparative Advantage and it holds just as true here.
A good broadcast will never be for free. NBC has been playing with the PPv stuff long enough to know what to broadcast and what to sell. Anything that they do broadcast would be tarnished by bad editing, time delays and the cutaways to crucial things like the medal round in Women’s Archery. And to use Olympic wrestling as a guide plan would kill it because Televised Wrestling is boring… Even Real Prowrestling failed.
Oh yeah I remember the NBA vote too. It was the right choice because its not in their interest as players or owners. 82 Game season plus playoffs plus training camp. I am sure all owners want to risk the franchise on a point guard with a blown ACl in a game versus Latvia…
D,
How do they do boxing?
Curtis,
USA boxing would be a better role model for the programming. Last I heard they(boxers) still had to turn pro. I believe It would take all the MMA media for the MMA fighters to make an inroad with the regular media. That last run of stories about 6 year olds doing MMA probably set the sport back too. Pros make the mose sense only because there is no real governing body for the sport at any level. All that being said in debate is one thing, but as a fan I have to concede anything that gets us the dream matches that the promoters will not put together is awful tempting.
mma will be in the olympics some day it would be sweet if the ufc got a contract to organize it or at least put together an american team there are so many countries that are apart of mma already i dont see why its not a sport yet maybe no this next games but the one after that i suspect it will be.
maybe le will talk about his long time coming debut into …….HOLLYWOOD!!!!???????WTF????
yeah he could be like the guy in all those Jean Claude Van Dam movies.
Did anyone here actually watch this ESPN show with Cung Le? I couldnt find it-is so let me know what went down. Thank You.
I guess it’s a pretty interesting idea!