(Even Couture’s best Jughead impression failed to impress the judges. Photo courtesy of the LA Times.)
Turns out that all our speculation as to what the UFC might do with Randy Couture for the last fight on his contract is now totally obsolete, because Captain America has re-upped for another six fights and twenty-eight months. The extension will take the 46 year-old conceivably into early 2012, when we assume that UFC events will be held somewhere deep within the earth in order to help fans get their minds off the harsh, post-apocalyptic hellscape on the surface. Said Couture:
“I am going to take it one fight at a time as I did 12 years ago when I first started this thing, and we will see where that goes. Obviously I didn’t have the outcome that I wanted [tonight] but I still had a good performance overall. I think I did a lot of things that I trained to do in this fight tonight. We will evaluate that, see what I need to improve and we will take it one fight at a time.”
Dana White said he’d leave it up to Couture to decide whether he wants to compete at heavyweight or light heavyweight going forward, but threw out his own opinion that Couture is “a monster” at light heavy. Considering that he weighed in at 220 pounds for this fight at a time when the young crop of UFC heavyweights seem to be tipping the scales a lot closer to the 265-pound limit, that’s not a bad idea. Hell, even Mark Coleman is making a living as a 205-pounder at the moment, so how hard could it be?
But wait a minute, if you’re thinking that this opens the door for a fourth fight with Chuck Liddell, you can forget it. White expressly said that he doesn’t think there would be much interest in that fight, though he admitted that Liddell was texting him about fighting again all night, adding, “when he is done dancing I am sure he is gonna come looking for me.”
Yeah, that’s what he says now, but wait until he gets a taste of the adrenaline rush that comes with dancing to big band tunes on network TV. You foxtrot awkwardly with a woman and the crowd will applaud and love you for that. You may even begin to love them for that.
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commentsWhy dont YOU tone it down about Maia? don't tell people how to feel or type, or you will end up like 831 son.
but yeah, i think couture can fight for awhile against the right people. he can win against the right people too. but he cant take a huge smack to the head without staggering.
and also just cause i gotta say maia, what the fuck were you thinking? ahahha i was hoping for a longer battle out of that. nat was my man, but still.
The point is the NON old Randy wouldn't be happy to survive and have nothing left to prove and all those other great cliche's to make his fans feel so warm and fuzzy about yet another lose. The REAL Randy Couture wouldn't have lost, but the old washed up, super way cool to watch "gosh I respect him for not dying" Randy had a great time. How nice, now go fucking retire Old Randy you have nothing worthwhile to offer this division other than being a big name stepping stone for the lazy new kids,for beating your old " happy to be here ass".
831 son you can go back to suck-drying jocks at the gym now.
It was one of the better all around events this year in my book so far.
Sure Randy was a bit slow... still put on a great fight... got out of some incredibly difficult positions from an obviously healthy and more resilient Nog then we saw against Mir.
I hope to be in 1/10th that sort of shape at 46.
"The only noteworthy heavyweight he ever beat was Tim Sylvia"
And Kevin Randleman, Maurice Smith, Pedro Rizzo, Vitor Belfort, Gabe Gonzaga
What you meant to say is "The only noteworthy heavyweight he has beaten since Ive been old enough to watch MMA is T Sylvia."
But I agree with you on him now needing to drop down. He is big at 205. He may have a shot at the title there.
I respect the hell out of him, but after seeing Randy fight big nog, i think he needs to rethink continuing to fight. And if you can cut to 205 why the hell are you fighting heavyweights anyway. The only noteworthy heavyweight he ever beat was Tim Sylvia, and i always thought Tim was the worst heavy weight champion in ufc history.
He said he's just in there for teh competitive side of him, and i really believe that, he didn't seem upset after the loss, he seemed like he went out there, had fun, didn't get finished and I think he thrives on it.
Randy is now irrelevant (as he was) other than bringing in dollars. the Fedor fight is irrelevant now since he would get his asshole kicked off in the first minute. It would have been that way before, but now after 2 losses it is much clearer.
Him and Chuck can hopefully get some other over the hill fighters signed and start their "interesting but meaningless" division designed to bring in dollars.
Age is relevant to Randy when they talk about him going down and making a serious-esque run at LHW.
Randy put on a hell of a show last night, and I respect the shit out of the guy. But honestly, if you think age hasn't started taking a toll on him, there's some head examination that needs to take place. His speed has declined, his chin got tested multiple times last night. And he still recovered great, escaped the subs, but even with how well he did, age is now a factor. And it will be 100% by the time that 28 month contract is up.
Any talk about how relevant Randy is at this time is directed at his future run at LHW (or even HW), VegasDirt. Not at how the actual card turned out. Just because the fight is enjoyable doesn't mean it's relevant, tho. Neither does the fact that both of them fought their asses off. What makes them relevant, at least to me, is how you look at their performance lastnight, and visualize where they go from there. My point was Randy won't go too far in LHW, or HW from here.
Sho-nuff have you ever seen a fight of Coutures when he was YOUNG? I thought not.
You know the difference between "captain contract" and Chuck Liddell?
Dana White likes Lidell, He couldn't give a shit less about Captain-quit with a title cause Im-a bitch-Couture. White will gladly throw his old ass to the young lions for 8 more fights, who cares if he gets beat up? White will milk every ounce of drawing power he can outta Randy and watch him turn into babbling dementia patient like Muhammad Ali.
I look forward to every beatdown that randy will get.
There will be a lot of good fights, and maybe if he drops some weight he'll look a little better than lastnight. Well, faster than lastnight, I was still impressed by his recovery and escapes from the subs, but how relevant will he really be?
But still, Randy got rocked a number of times and was locked into some serious submissions and somehow got away. There aren't many guys out there that can do that. I'll cheer for the guy against anyone.
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