
Posted on UFC.com this morning:
Major UFC Announcement Today at 3pm ET
UFC President Dana White will hold a media conference call later today to make a major UFC announcement. The call will take place at 3pm ET/12Noon PT. Check back with UFC.com for the full report.
Yahoo!’s Steve Cofield is fairly certain that the UFC will be formally announcing Randy Couture‘s return to the organization, and that he’ll be facing Brock Lesnar at UFC 91 (November 15th, Portland).
Of course, the last time the UFC made a “major announcement,” it turned out to be Lorenzo Fertitta changing his job title, so who knows. But I trust Cofield, and more importantly, I want to believe. Couture still has a few good fights left in him, and the sooner his lawsuit-induced layoff ends, the better — even if it means his battle to free himself from the UFC was ultimately unsuccessful. And as you might have heard, this doesn’t rule out a fight with Fedor down the road.
Still, it’s too bad Couture’s not facing Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira first. On paper, Brock Lesnar isn’t ready for a fight with the resilient six-time heavyweight champion, and he’ll be in over his head; a tune-up match against a decent wrestler before facing The Natural would have been helpful. Then again, Lesnar could certainly win by smothering Couture for three rounds, in which case Randy’s return fight will be disappointingly dull. And would that make Brock Lesnar the UFC’s official heavyweight champ? Weird, wild stuff.
We’ll update you after the announcement. Keep your fingers crossed.


wow, its hard to call myself a UFC fan today.
this is the worse news ever, its like a bad fucking prank that has gone on to long already.
2 of the biggest douchebags in the world are fighting, a quitter and a wrasslin roid-headed loser with no skills.
who do I want to win? can they both maybe die? fuck! I hate em both, I don’t want to see this shit, I want to see the next generation of MMA fighters, not some asshole overpaid, self-absorbed, sycophant, and some cock-chested, roid freak who’s only skill is being a big jacked off moron with ham hands.
I am ashamed of the money hungry greed that would envision this cock-suck fest.