It’s an obvious fact that earning the silver medal was no easy feat to accomplish when Sara McMann won it at the 2004 Olympics for freestyle wrestling. The success McMann experienced at the Athens Games has been similar to her mixed martial arts efforts in the sense that she’s widely considered one of the best in the world. But when she became an MMA fighter, McMann wouldn’t rely on her Olympic background to become successful in her new sport. Sometimes, she said, Olympians can’t do as well in other sports as they did at the Games
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UFC 170′s Sara McMann: “When the Pressure Comes On, I Show Up” – MMA Weekly