Two-time Olympic medalist Kyle Snyder now not plans to pursue MMA, retaining elephantine specialize in wrestling

Kyle Snyder has lots to inspire him busy with the game of wrestling at present time and while he stays a fan of blended martial arts, he now not plans to pursue a future in combating.

The two-time Olympic medalist, who’s making ready for a supermatch in opposition to fellow American J’Den Cox as a determined event on Wednesday night, had beforehand declared that he wished to test himself in blended martial arts factual after he attended UFC 203 in Cleveland succor in 2016.

As mighty as he mute enjoys MMA, Snyder is assured that he’ll simplest be a wrestler except the time involves name it a profession.

“Yeah that’s honest [I’m staying with wrestling],” Snyder confirmed to The Fighter vs. The Writer. “I went to the Stipe Miocic strive in opposition to after which I are desirous to the Cody ‘No Like’ [Garbrandt] versus [Dominick] Cruz and [Ronda] Rousey vs. Nunes so those had been some great fights. It’s admire the atmosphere’s factual loopy and in addition you’re admire I’ve got to fabricate this after you bag out of there.

“Now, I factual glance myself wrestling. I don’t know how lengthy. How ever lengthy God wills. I admire it. I’d fancy to fabricate it for a actually lengthy time however no matter God wants me to fabricate is what I’ll fabricate. Apt now, I’m factual centered and making ready for this match in March.”

While Snyder isn’t by myself with a honest passion for wrestling, there used to be a time now not that lengthy ago when athletes would strive in opposition to to bag any steady cash, which forced them to take a examine other interests admire MMA to aid pay the bills and bag a residing.

As a result of firms admire Rudis, who private backed Snyder for years, in conjunction with prize cash supplied by endowments admire the Living the Dream Medal Fund that pays wrestlers for profitable medals within the Olympics, there’s in actuality steady cash to be made within the game now.

“I believe wrestling as a entire is fully rising,” Snyder acknowledged. “I believe factual honest sooner than I got on the scene, it used to be mute demanding to factual be a wrestler and compete on the worldwide stage. You factual couldn’t bag sufficient cash, in particular must you wished to private a household and stuff admire that. The entire cash used to be truly in teaching and having clubs.

“Now the suitable guys are making honest salaries. USA wrestling is supported by the membership that you struggle in after which obviously these other sponsors private now helped a form of wrestlers. It’s all honest.”

As indubitably one of the most most successful American wrestlers thru the previous two Olympic cycles, Snyder has no complaints with the cash he’s been in a local to create, which in turn has allowed him to proceed training elephantine time as he competes on the worldwide stage Twelve months round.

“All the issues’s snug,” Snyder acknowledged. “All the issues’s honest. I truly feel admire I private all the pieces I must compete at the preferrred stage. It’s all honest.”

Time will likely be on Snyder’s side thinking about he won his Olympic gold medal when he used to be factual 20 years extinct while mute competing on the wrestling team at The Ohio Train College.

Now 26, Snyder is a honest passe who doesn’t intend on slowing down any time soon and that’s simplest going to bag the American wrestling program that mighty stronger with him in it.

“Other people are wrestling for a long time,” Snyder acknowledged. “Jordan [Burroughs] goes to be 34 soon. [Kyle] Dake is in his 30s. David [Taylor] is in his 30s. Guys are wrestling for longer because there’s extra beef up and in addition you’re in a local to bag extra cash and present on your household, in particular must you’re profitable.

“It’s honest. I believe we’re going to proceed to private a stronger team and proceed to bag world championships for my share and as a team. It’s all going to be honest for wrestling.”

Despite Snyder closing the ebook on any skill combating profession, he mute stays a fan of the game and he positively plans on watching indubitably one of his training partners as he makes the circulate into MMA.

“I’m having a perceive forward to Bo Nickal’s entrance into pro combating,” Snyder acknowledged in regards to the Penn Train wrestler turned fighter. “I believe he’s going to be a beast. I believe that he’s going to be somebody that will perhaps perhaps private a straight away impact on his division. That somebody I’m having a perceive forward to coming into the strive in opposition to world.”

Subsequent up for Snyder is a best likely two-out-of-three match with an Olympic bronze medalist in Cox, who used to be presupposed to be his fundamental rival at 97kg heading into the 2020 games.

Sadly, Cox used to be now not allowed to compete at the U.S. Olympic trials after he arrived leisurely to the official weigh-ins. Now Snyder is labored as a lot as face arguably the preferrred rival he has interior the American team.

“With me and J’den now not being in a local to struggle at the Olympic trials and that used to be a match that used to be carefully anticipated, people had been truly having a perceive forward to that so we had been in a local to signal that match up,” Snyder acknowledged.

“We’re now not going to factual struggle once however we’re going to struggle in a best likely two out of three factual admire we might perhaps perhaps if it used to be the Olympic trials.”

About a months ago, Cox got his dangle minute taste of MMA after he used to be out in Arizona working alongside Olympic gold medalist and retired two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo while spending some time on the mats with Jon Jones.

Jones, who used to be a collegiate wrestler in his dangle honest, acknowledged he ate “some serious humble pie” after grappling with Cox on the mats.

Snyder wasn’t shocked to hear that’s how those training sessions went because as mighty as he respects MMA warring parties, he is aware of it’s an entirely various world when attempting to compete with a monster admire Cox on the mats.

While fellow Olympic medalist Kyle Dake has teased his passion in a grappling match in opposition to a yarn admire Khabib Nurmagomedov if supplied the chance, Snyder sees what took convey when Jones tested himself in opposition to Cox to understand precisely what would happen if he faced off with any one from the MMA world.

“Followers would purchase to glance it,” Snyder acknowledged. “I factual truly feel admire it might perhaps perhaps perhaps perhaps be — unless we’re messing around — it might perhaps perhaps perhaps perhaps be too easy. Even the suitable guys [in MMA], while you’re out of the game, it might perhaps perhaps perhaps perhaps be a explain. It might perhaps perhaps be a explain.”