Randy Couture Does Not Want To Be the Brett Favre of MMA

Some might make the comparison between UFC veteran Randy Couture and all-time great quarterback Brett Favre.

To Couture though, now at age 47, he doesn't want those comparisons, and he could see himself fighting beyond his UFC 129 bout with Lyoto Machida.

"I'm not going to say it's the end. I'm not going to make any official announcements," Randy Couture said in an interview with MMA Weekly. "It doesn't make sense to do that, because they'll throw something at me that's intriguing and interesting to me, and then I'll be right back in there. Then I really will be the 'Brett Favre of MMA'."

People are also saying that if Couture does beat Machida and hand him his third consecutive loss, he could have a shot at Jon Jones and the UFC light heavyweight title.

“[Another title run would be] just the icing on the cake. That’s not really what it’s about for me at this point,” said Couture.

Couture is ready to face Machida, whose elusive style of fighting has dazzled many MMA fighters. Couture has wanted this fight for a long time, though, to figure out how to exactly land a strike on Machida.

"Yeah, I think it's an interesting style matchup, that's one of the reasons I've been so excited about it. He is kind of this enigma that nobody's really untangled or figured out and that's the kind of intriguing fight that I like," Couture said.

"I think he presents a lot of the same challenges to me that he has everybody else. He's hard to get a handle on. He's very elusive, he's got great footwork, has a very upright, unique style, has the ability to lure guys in and get them to chase him and then he changes directions and explodes and catches you with that straight left hand," said Couture.

"Obviously, he's taken some pretty significant fighters out in the last couple years. I think nobody's been able to really nail him down, to get their hands on him, to use the cage effectively, to put him on the ground for any length of time and those are all things that I usually try to do in my fights. I think getting him on the ground and either damaging him or finding a way to submit him is definitely the goal."