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Weights, judo, wrestling, boxing: from the Olympics to the MMA, how many stars who change sports

In a month Kolecki fights in the Ksw main event: he had been gold in weightlifting in Beijing. But many stars of the Olympics then landed in the octagon, even in Ufc: Ronda Rousey, Cejudo, Cormier …

Does the name of Szymon Kolecki tell you something? Olympics fans will remember: gold in Beijing 2008 in Weightlifting in the 94 kilos category and world record holder in Swift with 232.5 kilos in the victorious Sofia 2000 World Cup. Today he continues to compete, but not with cast iron discs. He retired in 2012, in 2017 he gave himself up to MMA and in a month or so he will fight for the first time in a main event: in Lodz for the Ksw promotion, one of the most important in Europe, against the German Martin Zawada.

Source: gazzetta.it

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