You are such a little pussy UFC fan. KILL YOURSELF.

clutchy hopkins shut the fuck up with your “tone it down ” bullshit, you type how you like and I will type how I like.
Why dont YOU tone it down about Maia? don’t tell people how to feel or type, or you will end up like 831 son.

ufc fan you seriously just sound too intense, you gotta tone it down a notch it seems like this has gotten to you a bit too much

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 fight with nog was good, randy still looked impressive with his dirty boxing. i think nog surprised/impressed a lot of people.

Extreme Couture fighters have been taking a beating lately. Time for a new head trainer.

AS I said guys age is a factor to everyone here but vegasdirt (but maybe he listened to vegas) and that stupid saladtosser from cali named 831 son, and while all he had to offer up was more wasted space and nothing relevant to the topic I can tell that 831 is all over Randy’s nut…..oh and I can tell hes a cocksucker as well, but that’s not the point.
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.

nice Gladiator reference

Randy didn’t look good. Yes he fought a top notch fighter… but… Randys striking is terrible. Randys arms looked like they were on strings… when he threw the left his right hand dropped… when he threw the right.. his left dropped. He can punch but man he leaves himself open. He would have been better to try and clinch and dirty box the entire time. I don’t want to admit that age has caught up with the Captain just yet… but if he is going to fight… he should rely on his bread and butter… NOT standing and striking.

I really enjoyed 102-

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.

hey, speaking of fighters acting professional/classy at 102, i was watching at the rose garden, so i dont know if they showed this on tv, but did you all see the part were Thiago Silva stood over top of Keith Jardine and unloaded about 5 fake gun shots to his head? everybody went nuts for it in the rose garden, wondering if anybody else did

@jerokov tg

“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.

Randy looked slow from round 1, i don’t think he would have any chance at clinching and holding it with Machida. He would have to be very aggressive to get into a clinch, and Machida would take advantage of that.

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.

Yeah… about Handy’s relevancy… I don’t think it matters much, he said that he’s not out there to prove anything, and that he’s done everything in the sport he wanted to accomplish.

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.

Does anyone know who Randy’s cornermen were for this fight? Outside of Tompkins? I didn’t recognize either the ponytailed muay thai coach or the enormous giant. Anyone?

I’m still reeling at how it was possible for Randy to lose since Nog clearly has his best days behind him and has nothing to offer couture in the way of opposition and is his worst possible matchup.

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.

As long as it takes to hopefully set up a fight with Fedor. Hopefully they both stay relevant and interesting until then. I think they will. Or with sound managing, I think they could.

Ah I see your point my fellow Vegan. Your right, he won’t be making any “relevant” run at a title and yes that’s because his ass is old and over the hill. BUT… He can still put on a sick ass fight worth paying for. Something that can’t be said for a shit load of fighters out there these days.

Relevance is really pointless here. The only thing that matters is who ever is on the ppv card I buy fights there ass off and literally puts on a show worth paying for. UFC Fan how is age a factor when a guy who’s 46 battles harder then 90 percent of his youthful counterparts. Randy proves age isn’t a factor, that was a war and like I said previously I’d pay to see him go to war another 10 times if he puts on that kinda show. Dana White only cares about a good show. Hes not out to kill Randy. DW just wants the people that buy tickets to the show and ppv to feel like they got their moneys worth. Randy can make that happen.

I think we’re all going off different ways here.

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.

You are a complete retard UFC fan. Die fag.

Anyone who thinks age ISN’T a factor needs his head examined.
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.

In my humble and often ignorant opinion I think that 102 was a great show. We got too see a lot of fights with some really good finishes. We saw alot of respect, class and professionalism from the fighters. And i love the way big nog keeps calling couture—- handy.

Randy can’t be faulted for his fight last night. He fought one of the best fighters in the world and gave him a helluva war. Anyone that thinks age was why he lost needs their head examined. Randy fought great last night. AgentoftheBat is spot on, he fought with tons of heart, a great gameplan, and never gave up when caught in those ugly submissions. Randy impressed the hell out of me last night. I am a huge Minotauro fan, he’s my favorite fighter (along with Machida), and I loved the show of respect these two had for one another after the fight. There’s no shame in putting on a great fight and losing to one of the top fighters on the planet.

I love watching Randy fight, but how relevant can he be? He won’t be the top of the LHW, he might get a shot, but does he really stand a chance against guys like Machida, or Silva if he decides to go up to 205 for more than just an every-other-fight spectacle?

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?

Randy is old as hell but he still looks better out there than half the guys on the roster. If he drops to Light Heavyweight there can definitely be some interesting fights there. Last night I was blown away at how much bigger Nog was.
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.

For the past five minutes I’m trying to figure out how Randy would get a clinch with Machida, but now I’m dumbfounded. I thought since they approved instant-replays that I just caught the free-stream after the fight was done lastnight and they were showing the entire thing through slo-mo.

I was wrong. I caught it live.

Unfortunately I think that Randy is going down hill he looked very slow last night and while I am sure Nog hits hard his chin didn’t look that fantastic and there are a bunch of real sluggers at 205. I do think though that Randy may be able to get Machida into his clinch game so maybe that would work out for him