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BigEvil
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Someone Brought up the topic of mma in the olympics, who do you think should represent the USA in each weight class, im going to include one alternate in mine. If you want to add other countries go ahead, props if you can figure one out for a country other than US, Brazil, or Russia.
Team USA:
HW: Couture, Vera
LHW: Rampage, Liddell
MW: Franklin, Hendo
WW: Hughes, Serra
LW: Sherk, Penn
FW: Faber, Pulver
BW: ???
Anyway just thought it would be cool, I put Serra in there cuz he's the current champ anyone think they can put together a better team USA?
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Post #1 8/14/07 4:04:52PM
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szucconi
In Full Mount
Career record: 137-109
Season: 15-6 (#3535)
Location: Maryland
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HW: Monson - Better? no, but I think he would represent the US well. Couture would be ideal, but Monson never gets a lot of press. I think he's a good dude.
LHW: Rampage
MW: Hendo
WW: Hughes
LW: Penn
FW: Faber
BW: Manny Tapia - Soon to be WEC champ.
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Post #2 8/14/07 4:22:15PM
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MMA Sensei
Career record: 197-108
Season: 21-7 (#62)
Location: Champion City
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Josh Barnett, man! Josh Barnett! Sheesh. How quickly people forget...
Oh, and Brazilians could be holding three UFC belts a year from now. We all better learn to pronounce their names properly. It's "Antonio Hodrigo Nogueira" and "Shogun Hua." 
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Post #3 8/14/07 4:25:06PM
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cowcatcher
MMA Sensei
Career record: 194-109
Season: 20-9 (#192)
Location: Milwaukee
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Posted by szucconi
BW: Manny Tapia - Soon to be WEC champ.
doesnt look like it now, i guess tapia is out with an injury..........didnt mean to threadjack
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Post #4 8/14/07 4:38:09PM
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BigEvil
Standup Guy
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Good Call on Barnett! I did forget  although the olympic steroid testing policy is gonna be tuff 
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Post #5 8/14/07 4:39:11PM
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MMA Sensei
Career record: 127-76
Season: 22-8 (#86)
Location: Stopping fights with low 10's
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Team Canada
HW:??
LHW: Bill Mahood
MW: Cote/Jason MacDonald
WW: St. Pierre
LW: Sam Stout
They'd get murdered haha
Last edited 8/14/07 4:43PM by Jackelope
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Post #6 8/14/07 4:42:26PM
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szucconi
In Full Mount
Career record: 137-109
Season: 15-6 (#3535)
Location: Maryland
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Posted by AchillesHeel
Josh Barnett, man! Josh Barnett! Sheesh. How quickly people forget...
Oh, and Brazilians could be holding three UFC belts a year from now. We all better learn to pronounce their names properly. It's "Antonio Hodrigo Nogueira" and "Shogun Hua."
I thought Barnett, but like I said, I just like Monson. I don't think he would win and he's not even in my top ten HWs.
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Post #7 8/14/07 4:43:12PM
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MMA Sensei
Career record: 127-76
Season: 22-8 (#86)
Location: Stopping fights with low 10's
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Ahh, come on.. you gotta have Mr. All American Don Frye in there haha! He could wear his normal ring attire
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Post #8 8/14/07 4:44:42PM
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pv3Hpv3p
MMA Sensei
Career record: 175-123
Season: 15-15 (#4199)
Location: St. Paul, MN
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Posted by Jackelope
Team Canada
HW:??
LHW: Bill Mahood
MW: Cote/Jason MacDonald
WW: St. Pierre
LW: Sam Stout
They'd get murdered haha
Actually wouldn't be too bad... You could get Gary Goodridge as your HVY
No comment on Bill Mahood
Maybe even Carlos Newton at 185
GSP's a given
LW you could go Horodeski maybe...
Team Brazil would be mean as well
HVY: Big Nog, Napao, Junior Silva
LHW: Shogun, Wand, Lil Nog, Arona
MW: Cyborg, Ninja, Filho
WW: Alves, De Souza, Azeredo (?weight?)
LW: Tavares, Riberio, JZ
And the gold medal goes to...
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Post #9 8/14/07 5:34:12PM
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MMA Sensei
Career record: 127-76
Season: 22-8 (#86)
Location: Stopping fights with low 10's
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Brazil, U.S.A. then Russia. With Russia taking the heavyweight division, obviously ;)
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Post #10 8/14/07 6:01:54PM
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DNor
MMA Regular
Career record: 40-38
Season: 0-0 (#-)
Location: Texas
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What about Japan?
HW: Hidehiko Yoshida, Kazuyuki Fujita
LHW: Kazuhiro Nakamura
MW: Akihiri Gono, Minowa, Yuki Kondo, Misaki
WW: Shinya Aoki, Hayato "Mach" Sakurai
LW: Takonori Gomi, Mishima, Tatsuya Kawajiri
FW: Kid Yamamoto
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Post #11 8/14/07 6:32:28PM
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playground samauri
Career record: 194-113
Season: 22-8 (#76)
Location: NW Ohio - 419
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HW-Barnett
LHW-Liddell, since he wouldn't have to fight Rampage.
MW-Hendo
WW-Hughes......possibly Swick in a year or so
LW-Penn
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Post #12 8/14/07 6:52:35PM
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masodd
Standup Guy
Career record: 124-87
Season: 17-13 (#3354)
Location: Crossville,Tennessee
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HW-Randy Couture
LHW-Rampage
MW-Hendo
WW-John Fitch or Josh Koscheck or Carlos Condit
LW-BJ Penn
FW-Faber
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Post #13 8/14/07 7:52:21PM
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the-james
Standup Guy
Career record: 209-89
Season: 19-5 (#667)
Location: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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The best USA team would like this:
HW: Barnett, Couture, Vera
LHW: Henderson, Rampage, Liddell
MW: Franklin, Lindland, Marquardt
WW: Hughes, Fitch, Serra
LW: BJ, Nick Diaz, Gilbert Melendez (im pretty sure hes american)
FW: Faber, Curran, Pulver
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Post #14 8/14/07 8:20:17PM
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Yaknowhaimean
Learning to Sprawl
Career record: 75-40
Season: 0-0 (#-)
Location: Washington, DC
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Cool thread idea. How about... Team... Britain?
HW: James Thompson
LHW: Bisping, James Zikic
MW: whatever happened to Lee Murray? haha... or Ross Pointon? hahaha
WW: Paul Daley, David Lee, Paul Taylor
LW: Terry Etim
FW: Brad Pickett, Paul McVeigh, and Alex Owen
BW: ?
OK I don't really know british fighters.... and they'd get whooped... but we need more countries represented!
War USA, by the way
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