(I guess we’re not the only ones.)
Well, you can’t ever say that Randy Couture is an underachiever.
In an interview with MMA Weekly Radio this week, the former UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight champion said that he wants a title shot within the next six months against the winner of this weekend’s bout between 205-pound kingpin Lyoto Machida and Mauricio "Shogun" Rua.
"I think within the next six months I’d like to be in line to fight the winner of the Machida/Shogun fight," Couture told MMAWeekly Radio host Damon Martin. "I’m going to be in Montreal to watch that fight very attentively. I think it’s going to be a great fight."
Like "The Natural," I too have some lofty goals that will probably never come to fruition, like hitting my lottery numbers and winning a Pulitzer for my CP body of work.
I know that asking for a title shot is nothing new in the fight game, but come on Randy. In your last four fights at 205, you subbed two aging veterans in Mike Van Arsdale and Mark Coleman, were knocked out by Chuck Liddell and stole a decision from Brandon Vera. Your next fight is against an MMA newcomer, who is no spring chicken himself and who a win against will neither raise nor lower your stock in the UFC’s light heavyweight division. Why not ask for a contender so you can earn a title shot, instead of resting on your laurels, past performances and name to get one?
I can’t see him getting his wish, but stranger things have happened. Regardless of whom the UFC decide to match Couture up with after Toney, they have no shortage of apt opponents. I realize that the sun is setting on his career, but I’d like to see him convincingly get by a few legit fighters like Rashad Evans, Quinton Jackson or perhaps, more intriguingly, a guy like Anderson Silva, before putting him in line for a title shot.
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commentsSorry for the late replay - it's been 'hit-and-run' with my posts lately... i'm definitely not reppin' that fucktard, it's more like the sarcasm of it... "if I could only see what he sees then maybe i'd understand why he.... nah!"
But I couldn't agree with you more Misanthropy. I have been an MMA fan for a long time, but after that fight I was so pissed that I decided to start posting. That is why I took up the name cecils_pupils... cuz that motherfucker can't see shit, and don't know shit about MMA. Doing kung fu and being in 70's blacksploitation films somehow qualifies him to be a referee/judge. That's the joke of it all... when the fans can score a fight better than the so-called judges... it's bullshit.
So yes, homie, I'd like to straighten that mofo out... with a nasty ass leg kick!
"Run Forest Run"
That's just fucked up. I laugh and I cry.
@Mr_Misanthropy
Yeh, if you're a striker, that's how you're gonna beat Lyoto: well-timed kicks. And yeah that was Aldo's strategy too. It's just another way of taking away the other guy's main weapon (same as throwing them on their back). Smart game plans.
"That's why there's three referees!" (kizer you jackass)
Haha... dude after a few months off, right now I'm like Big Country *without* the cardio. (And not as tall.)
I guess if I were a fighter the MMA press would call me Lil Country
You summed up exactly how I feel in your "serious for two seconds" post.
We see this in all sports from a shit-load of legends. There is something about the competitive drive these guys have that keeps them coming back. Of course some are doing it for dire financial reasons (Coleman, Shamrock and a bunch of others), but the majority are the ones that can't let it go. Favre is an exception in that he still plays at a high level, but the same thing is going on with him.
These guys need to take a page from the Howie Long book. He went out when he was at the beginning of his decline. I read somewhere that Howie said he would retire when he stopped making pro-bowls. He missed it for two years in the early '90's then made two more including his last season. He said he just didn't feel he could compete with the top talent anymore and moved on. The dude's a class act, went out near the top and never tarnished his legendary status. That's how you want a legend to go out.
I just rewatched the Shogun/ Machida 1 and it made me think about ol' Cecil. His whole "leg kicks (fill in your own derogatory comment here).." thing was double off-base. Not only do leg kicks end fights, as has been demonstrated on CP many times before, but the whole deal with Shogun/ Machida 1 was BODY kicks. In the beginning of round one Shogun lands a number of brutal body kicks to the left side of Machida's body, as well as a number of punishing knees to the inside and outside of the thighs. By the second body kick in round one Machida's abdomen is red (approx. 4:13). This pattern continues for the remainder of the fight and is indeed indicative of Shogun's gameplan right from the beginning of rd 1. Re-watching this fight for like the tenth time, I was struck by the overall lack of any meaningful offense from Machida, other than a couple of single shots in rds. 2 & 3.
In conclusion, not only do leg kicks decide and end fights, so do body kicks. It seemed as if Machida started to find range and get in the flow towards the end of rd 2, but it was already too late because Shogun had destroyed Machida's base. He simply could not drive for meaningful shots without his legs and core. Its strange that Cecil would talk so much shit, as body shots (choppin' down dat tree) are well respected in boxing.
So, fuck Cecil People's, he obviously don't know shit about kicks, and not only will leg kicks end a fight, but body kicks and liver kicks will do the trick too. See what you get for calling yourself Cecil? It's like you're his official representative. Straighten that motherfucker out, son!
The last time he won more than 2 fights in a row was in 2001. Stick that in your dirty boxers, homie.
Imagine getting a title shot after only two wins in the UFC, losing that title shot, then getting another one shortly thereafter, and only fighting to a draw. So instead of continuing to earn your way back up by fighting challengers, you then decide to go up a weight class, and despite your lackluster showing in title matches in your original weight class, you are somehow granted an immediate title shot at the higher weight. You win that match, but then leave the UFC for a couple years due to a dispute, and upon your return you are put into a number one contenders match, which you lose... but then are still granted a title shot. You lose that title fight, so you decide to drop down to your original weight class to fight a washed up old veteran, where you get a win, which somehow gives you an immediate title shot at the belt in this weight class. You win, then defend the belt once, and amazingly are granted an immediate title shot in the weight class above and the chance to hold two belts at once. Except you get absolutely embarrassed in the fight at the higher weight class, so you lick your wounds and win another fight in your original weight class. Then you lose your next fight, and your belt along with it. But again, you are given an immediate rematch to earn your belt back.
Talk about unearned title shots! But that isn't Randy Couture. That is BJ Penn's career of not earning his title shots. So if a spoiled whiner like BJ can get that many title shots, I'm cool if they throw a couple more Randy's way.
Also, there is NOTHING intriguing in any way, shape, or form about Couture Vs Silva.
And furthermore, there is NOTHING intriguing whatsoever about drinking your own (insert bodily fluid here).
I doubt any of us are in the same condition or as competitive as any of the top MMA fighters regardless of age, so I guess we should stop commenting on any fighter.
See, when we say we'd love to see him win that belt one more time before retiring, it's like keeping that sick relative alive with the machine. They're unable to speak, move, or do anything independently. Every second of their lives is severe pain, and they are terminal. Everyone knows that as soon the machine is turned off, the body will shut down and they will die.
And still we keep the machines going, *for ourselves*. It's not about us, it's about them.
Especially when you're talking about age of consent. She might have been 15, but she acted like she was at least 15 and a half.
Dude.. You're old.