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 blended martial arts as soon as she’s completed dominating the beginner wrestling scene.
As a two-time Olympian and the coach of a highschool wrestling crew, Cormier has at all times saved 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.
“Slightly backstory, Amit Elor used to at all times be across the Bay space with a lady named Carolyn Wester, she coached at a membership known as Wrestling Prep and she or he teaches wrestling,” Cormier stated on The Fighter vs. The Author. “She’s a girl that coaches and she or he’s an incredible coach, very good 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 footage of Amit, and Carolyn would take footage of Amit with the crew. That’s one factor they do in MMA gyms. On the finish of observe, all people will get collectively for a photograph. Amit’s in numerous these footage” (h/t MMA Combating).
At 20 years outdated, Elor turned the youngest American to win a gold medal in wrestling, a file beforehand held by Henry Cejudo.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 in opposition to 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 stated 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 burden up in her very first match. [Elor] destroys her. She went onto kill the remainder of the sphere 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 house state of California in 2028, Elor’s focus shall be on bringing house 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 critical harm 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 rather well in judo, she does large in jiu-jitsu. If she does begin doing [MMA] competitively, they’re going to be in bother.”
He continued,“I like when nice wrestlers come into blended martial arts, however I’m at all times for them doing it after they’re completed chasing their Olympic goals. You don’t get to do this once more. In case you have a possibility to be the most effective on the planet, you chase that so long as you may and you then go do one thing totally different. I don’t suppose it ought to be coming sooner than wanted.
“You go and wrestle so long as it’s good to wrestle, and you then come to try to make the cash because the UFC fighter.”
