With the 2016 Summer Olympics scheduled for Aug. 5-21 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sherdog.com staff and contributors sat down to put together hypothetical MMA Olympic teams for the following countries: United States, Canada, Japan, Great Britain, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, Poland, Australia and Sweden. This 10-part series will map out the yellow brick road to Rio de Janeiro for the men and women who call the cage home, Zika virus be damned.
Its lack of individual success notwithstanding, Mexico has a rich Olympic history on which to hang its hat. The country served as host for the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City, where George Foreman captured the gold medal in heavyweight boxing and paraded around the ring waving a small American flag that was dwarfed further by the massive cinder blocks he called hands.