Couture Returns to UFC

[basslinejunkie]

i think couture would do him to be honest,all that expirence will work in his favour against a man who lacks serious skill and is essetionaly a big lump.

personally i would much rather fight a big beast than a little nippy fighter.

[drift9]

a man who lacks serious skill and is essetionaly a big lump.

that's sort of the problem. the guy has one of the best greco-roman wrestling backgrounds in UFC. And he's no lump--probably the fastest and most athletic guy of that size in the whole sport. True he lacks submission skills, but man, dude's just a freak of a specimen. Love Randy and all that, but don't think his chances are so hot here. And he's 45. But again, Randy has proven me wrong many times before.

[Siege]

just seen the liddell, evans fight.........chuck got 1 timed, absolute pearler of a punch!

[eppertheleper]

I missed the fights tonight (was at the OSU home opener), but I'm really getting excited to see if Randy can handle him. The way that Lesnar dominated Herring on the ground simply won't be possible with Randy. If you've watched much collegiate wrestling, you'll recognize that the way Lesnar controlled Heath on the ground was a pure example of those skills with strikes and knees thrown in.

Now, Lesnar has the NCAA championship over Randy in that arena (Randy was a two-time runner up), but after college Randy went to the Olympics whereas Brock went to the WWF. Slight advantage Randy. Couture will know what to do and do it well when Lesnar charges him and it will be very hard for Brock to rack up "riding time" on Randy.

What I see this coming down to is two things. Can Brock get lucky and land a finishing blow OR has Brock trained enough to avoid making stupid mistakes on the ground. If he can pull off either of those feats, then he'll probably win. However, if he can't get lucky or avoid making rookie mistakes, I give Randy a good shot at taking down the behemoth. I'm getting more optimistic the more I consider this fight, but that could easily be my orange colored glasses (Mine and Randy's school color).

Come on, Captain America! One more miracle!

[drift9]

just seen the liddell, evans fight.........chuck got 1 timed, absolute pearler of a punch!

yeah, that was NASTY! seems the Chuck era is coming to its conclusion.