Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Former Olympic Silver Medalist Sara McMann Chose Her Own Path to MMA Success


Photo courtesy of Invicta

As Sara McMann stood in the center of the Invicta cage this past Saturday night waiting to hear what the judges would have to say about the future of her undefeated record, she had no idea which way it might go. This was a problem she hadn’t dealt with in her former life as a wrestler. All the way through college and then at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where she won a silver medal, she’d had the advantage of being able to look at a scoreboard and know who was winning. But in MMA she’d seen enough baffling decisions to know that you could never be sure where the judges would come down after three rounds of fighting.

"I really wasn’t sure," she told MMA Fighting in a phone interview this week. "I still have a hard time with str...

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