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Warren still eyes Olympic gold medal
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<p>Mixed martial arts is filled with athletes who have crossed over from high level sports such as wrestling and judo to successful careers. However it's not often that athletes transition from MMA back to high level wrestling, but that's exactly what Joe Warren wants to do:</p>
"I have an idea of maybe winning the Olympics, too," Warren told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. "I don’t know why, man. It’s my birthday yesterday, and that was in my mind again. … I don’t know. If the Worlds are in Las Vegas next year, a year from now, it would be pretty sweet to win the World Championship in Las Vegas."
Warren won the 2006 edition of the World Championship in Guangzhou, China, and would be down to compete in both wrestling and MMA if he gets the right support. He came close to competing at the 2008 Olympic Games, but was sacked by a positive drug test for marijuana.
"I tried to do it last time. Pat Curran knocked me out seven days before the trials (in 2012). I lost in the trials, but I probably shouldn’t have been wrestling in the first place," Warren said. "I didn’t think, at this age, I’d be talking about this again, but I’m faster, stronger, lighter, older, and all those things that makes wrestlers better. I don’t know. That’s a possibility.
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