UFC Corridor of Famer and former two-division world champion Daniel Cormier firmly believes Olympic gold medalist Amit Elor will make waves on the planet of combined martial arts as soon as she’s executed dominating the newbie wrestling scene.
As a two-time Olympian and the coach of a highschool wrestling staff, Cormier has all the time saved an in depth 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.
“A bit backstory, Amit Elor used to all the time be across the Bay space with a lady named Carolyn Wester, she coached at a membership referred to as Wrestling Prep and he or she teaches wrestling,” Cormier stated on The Fighter vs. The Author. “She’s a woman that coaches and he or she’s an incredible coach, very sensible woman.
“She would carry 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 staff. That’s one factor they do in MMA gyms. On the finish of observe, everyone will get collectively for a photograph. Amit’s in numerous these photos” (h/t MMA Combating).
At 20 years outdated, Elor grew to become the youngest American to win a gold medal in wrestling, a report beforehand held by Henry Cejudo. She kicked off her match 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 shocking margin of 30-2 all through her run on the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris.
“She killed it,” Cormier stated of Elor. “That first match, speak about unhealthy luck. The World Champion from the 12 months earlier than from that weight class will get the World Champion from the burden 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 attaining her targets in wrestling
With the Summer time Olympics scheduled to go down in her residence state of California in 2028, Elor’s focus might 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 may do some severe injury in four-ounce gloves.
“She’s going to battle,” Cormier stated. “She’s going to be a fighter. For nearly as good as she is in wrestling, she does very 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 like when nice wrestlers come into combined martial arts, however I’m all the time for them doing it after they’re executed chasing their Olympic goals. You don’t get to try this once more. If in case you have a possibility to be the very best on the planet, you chase that so long as you may and then you definitely go do one thing completely different. I don’t assume it ought to be coming sooner than wanted.
“You go and wrestle so long as it is advisable to wrestle, and then you definitely come to try to make the cash because the UFC fighter.”
