MMA would be pretty cool.Pro wrestling to ;)...But theres several sports i could see in the future in the olympics, LaCrosse (my girlfriend is part of a pretty decent side in japan) and bowling being another 2.
I've often wondered if MMA would end up as an Olympic Sport but then they'd have to kit the fighters out with loads of protective gear like they do with the boxers thus devaluing and undermining the whole point of the sport. Sure you'd still have the submissions but for many fan and fighters that is half the game taken away.
And if they did allow it as a full unbridled contact sport it is unlikely the fighters would be able to fight twice or three times in one day or over successive days like martial artists and boxers do.
I don't think so. They'd probably only require head gaurds like the boxers and 90% of Mixed Martial Artists trian in them anyway. Plus maybe shin guards but thats no bad thing if it gets the sport on the Olympics then it's a small price topay.