Oh, I know the headline and teaser may irk many a Randy fan, but I'll start off by saying I'm a fan too. I just don't want to see a great fighter get destroyed. It seems in sports people just don't know when to quit. I'll start off with a breakdown.
Brock Lesnar has shown that he is a bull in a china shop when it comes to the lighter fighters in the division, so now he is going to take on one of the lightest fighters in the UFC heavyweight division, Randy Couture.
This fighter also happens to be a surefire UFC hall of famer, resilient beyond belief, oh yeah and a former champ. Randy also has the skills in wrestling to keep Lesnar in check. If Randy can win the war on foot he has a good shot.
Now comes the behemoth that is known as Brock Lesnar. He manhandled a heavier veteran, Heath Herring, and looked to steamroll Mir before being caught in a submission. Randy is not known for a submission game at all, what's stopping Lesnar from stomping him out too?
At this point in time nothing is stopping him. Randy has been busy starring in crappy movies for a little over a year now and has not been near a cage in a little bit longer than that. Lesnar is young, strong, big, fast, athletic, big, strong, and did I mention big? Randy has it in for him alright.
So since he's signed this contract he has three fights, let's just hope he can survive this one, because as much as I have had doubted Randy in the recent past and he has shown me up...I'm almost positive he won't this time.
Prepare for a Clubber Lang v. Rocky 1 style matchup. Not only that, but Lesnar may end up with a title shot after this fight. Noguiera is praying that Lesnar's ground game didn't get any better.
So whats the moral of the story? If you're 45 and haven't fought in almost two years, don't take on the biggest, baddest dude in your division.
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Robert DesRoche 10 months ago
I agree with you on almost all fronts, except you missed something big: this fight IS for the title. Winner is UFC HW Champion and faces winner of Mir/Big Nog (interim HW champ) in early 2009. It's a 4 man tourney for the title.
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Kevin Curran 10 months ago
ohh, i thought that Randy gave it up kinda like when Mir did with Arlovski
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Nate Double 10 months ago
All Randy has to do is weather the initial storm, if he can do that (which I think he can) it becomes anyones fight after that.
Randy is the master tactician of MMA. Gabriel Gonzaga was a lot bigger than Couture and look what happened to him.
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Derek Bolender 10 months ago
Gonzaga was big but he was still small enough that randy was able to get a hold of him, clinch, and control the tempo of the fight and gonzaga's movements.
I do not think couture has the strength or size to control lesnar in the clinch and if he cannot do that he is in big trouble because he's not going to stand and knockout lesnar.
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Robert DesRoche 10 months ago
Yeah... what he said. Gonzaga is big, but Lesnar is 40 pounds bigger than him, and has a wrestling pedigree. There's no real 'initial storm' either. Lesnar will have great cardio. Really there shouldn't be anyway for Randy to win this fight. The only reason he gets any chance is because he's Randy Freaking Couture.
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Dorothy Willis 10 months ago
An old woman like me just has to go with Randy, you know "age and treachery" and all that.
Good article, buddy. Hey, just so I can be totally amazed--how old are you really? It doesn't matter, you've made your chops, I am just a curious old granny and I would love to know.
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Kevin Curran 10 months ago
i turn 16 sept 10th
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Dorothy Willis 10 months ago
Well Happy Birthday early from Gr. Dee, you certainly know MMA and have a promising career as a writer. You must have had very good English teachers and they can be very proud of you.
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James Morrison 10 months ago
BTY you say Lesner is young....Not really, young compared to Coture maybe. Also we've yet to see Lesner recieve any trama to his neck...a neck that has ben broken. I will NEVER bet against Randy Coture. I would pick Coture if it was Coture vs. Russia
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Adam Schoonover 10 months ago
I'm thrown Brock if a freak of raw power, but no one has a record of 2-1 and then gets a title shot.
I just pray some train that big gorilla before the fight.
I wonder if Dana signed Brock with just this in mind. Is Brock Dana's Randy killer.
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Kevin Curran 10 months ago
yea i think that it is unfair for him to get a shot so soon.
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Adam Schoonover 10 months ago
Can we call Brock Tommy Gunn
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Kevin Curran 10 months ago
hahaha
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Micah Reller 10 months ago
Or Zangeif (not sure if this is spelled right) off of Street Fighter. Cept Brock ain't russian.
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Micah Reller 10 months ago
Never liked either character.
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TIM VREELAND 10 months ago
While I think Brock's potential is awesome but throwing him in with Couture is gonna expose his inexperience. Couture made his name pulling off upsets. This will be a battle but I think it favors Couture especially if he keeps Lesnar on the cage like he did with Gonzaga.
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Kevin Curran 10 months ago
id love to see Randy prove me wrong, i think that would be a great story if he won
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Robert DesRoche 10 months ago
Keeps Lesnar on the cage? Uggg. No one gets it. We'll have to wait till the fight I guess.
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Fortun Kimura 10 months ago
Brock Lesnar looks exactly like Jack from the Tekken games. ...Punches like him too. I think Jacks weakness was Marshall Law, who's basically Bruce Lee. * Brock needs to fight Anderson Silva...
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CJ Daconta 10 months ago
Randy is gona get fuckin killed. Randy's best attribute is that he is one of the best freakin athletes out of all the fighters I have seen. He wins his match by out working his opponent by putting them up against the cage and putting pressure on them constantly like a good wrestler should do. Unfortunately he is fighting another big wrestler who will put more pressure on him because of the size factor. If Brock Lesner was seen as someone who gases (he proved that wrong when he fought Herring all 3 rounds) Then Randy would destroy him, but Lesner has stamina so this basically takes away all of Randy's greatest strength.
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Ron Van Lew 10 months ago
When Randy has been counted out of upcoming fights he has always found a way to win. Brock may be the exception to this rule. If he catches randy with one good punch I think Randy will crumble. On the ground if Brock is on top that also may be a problem.
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Micah Reller 10 months ago
IF (and thats a big if) Lesnar wins. He will be the UFC HW champ as long as my last girlfriend. That was about 1 week and half. He is too inexperienced for a title shot. If I were Mir and Nog. I would be pissed and start to look else where. The notion that a fighter has to work through ranks has been thrown out the window in the UFC. No longer can a valid number ranking of fighters holds any water. If you own knee pads, you are Dana's best friend in the whole world. Until you go somewhere else to compete, then you are nothing but a loser "stinking up the joint".
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A Damluji 10 months ago
I have a feeling Dana White wants this to be another Machida/Ortiz.
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Richard M 8 months ago
I dont care what any of you all say.. Randy is smarter, more experienced and more skilled in ALL aspets of fighting MMA than Brock will ever be.. He willbeat Brock on the ground and standing up and Ill take any size bet for any chump who thinks otherwise.. Especially the retard who wrote this article.
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