u/JiJiangNumbaWan

1. Screaming is rude/shouldn’t be allowed.
   We are athletes. We have personalities. It’s also really exciting to score in a close bout. It’s a lot of hard work that comes down to a few minutes in an actual bout.

2. Strength doesn’t matter.
   It definitely does. If not for boosting performance then for injury prevention.

3. Men and women naturally have equal abilities.
   They certainly don’t. At lower/recreational levels there may be less of a difference, but in high level fencing the difference is huge just like any other sport.

One athlete from each Olympic sport is selected to compete in a competition of every single Olympic sport against all the other selected athletes. No preparation time.

Each athlete is in their peak physical condition for their own sport. Athletes can only score points by placing in the top 3 of an event, excluding the one athlete who’s specialized for that event. 1st is worth 3 points, silver is 2, bronze is 1. Placements lower than that do not count.

To make it fair, we’ll divide track into sprinting, middle distance, and long distance. Swimming is just freestyle with 3 distances. Combat sports don’t get weight classes. Other sports with a shit load of events are also divided so as to not weight them too heavily in the grant total. Idk every sport so we will assume a reasonable weighting of sports with multiple events.

You cannot factor in specific athletes that may have experience in other sports unless it’s the case for most athletes in that sport. Also this is just summer Olympics.

One extra rule: you can use a different individual athlete from each sport to compete in the other sports. So for example you might want to use a lighter wrestler for gymnastics and a heavier wrestler for judo.

A Navy SEAL, Olympic fencer, or a UFC fighter.

1v1 to the death, no rules, just one average sized machete for each person. Assume it is the best contender from each category. Arena is a little bigger than a UFC octagon.

I'm a 19 year old D1 fencer with about 8 months of Muay Thai and 3 months of BJJ. I'm wondering what the chances are that I could become a decent amateur fighter or even go pro in the future. I know this is not a direct "background" for MMA but it seems to be useful for distance control and power, even if it's just raw athleticism. I understand it's also a pretty late start for wanting to be a competitive fighter.

Also, if anyone has any advice for how I could leverage my fencing experience to develop MMA skills, please let me know. If it matters, I am 5'10" 190.