It's an Olympic year which means it's once again time to hear the very original joke that the games should include one average person to show how talented the athletes really are and as a lifelong fan of the competitive grappling scene for year and year…  | Mixed Martial Artish Staff June 16 | It's an Olympic year which means it's once again time to hear the very original joke that the games should include one average person to show how talented the athletes really are and as a lifelong fan of the competitive grappling scene for year and year now I think this is exactly what the Craig Jones Invitational needs to demonstrate to the average viewer what these elite athletes are made of. With the event free on YouTube it's sure to have many casual eyes on it and for my money I think there would be no better way to clearly lay out just how talented the grapplers competing are than to include one non-elite entrant like, say, a longtime blue belt only recently returned from a significant layoff who is also much smaller than the athletes in the field be they naturally or unnaturally enhanced. By awarding one slot to a grappler such as this the CJI would provide valuable context and I guess since we all agree this is a good idea and that, when you think about it, it sure does sound a lot like me, it seems like I'll just have to be the one to do it. In fact, I'm feeling so generous I would even be amenable to disproving the myth that size doesn't matter by enrolling in both fields to show the relative ease of victory by both a smaller and larger grappler for nothing more than the good of the sport and a second entrant's purse. | | | |
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