Couture Could Face Fedor Once UFC Contracts Expire
UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture made an appearance during last nights HDNet Fights “Reckless Abandon” event in Dallas, Texas. Couture, who was attending the event to back Xtreme Couture fighters Frank Trigg and Jay White, answered questions about his future on the live broadcast.
According to Couture, his fight contract with the UFC will expire in July while his employment contract with the organization is up in October. After both contracts expire Couture said he believes he will then be able to take on top-ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko.
During the interview Couture also mentioned the possibility of the UFC and M-1 Global, the promotion with which Emelianenko signed earlier this year, co-promoting the bout but the UFC has shown no interest in a co-promoting the fight.
Due to the UFC’s reluctance to co-promote the fight it appears that Couture will have to wait until October at the earliest to take on Emelianenko once both of his UFC contracts expire.
Tags: Fedor Emelianenko, Randy Couture
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The hope is still alive. Randy will be 50 by the time it happens though.
the UFC is making a huge mistake by not offering a copromotion in this, I am sure they think they are protecting themselves, but I am sure it could be worked out.
i’ll believe it when I see it, we have been going on about this couture thing for a long time. Don’t get me wrong, I wanna see the fight as bad as anybody else, but with the way things have been going between the both of them, I think it will take quite some time to get it all together, i’m not getting my hopes up.
Randy should not even if it was one of my dream fight, he would be too old for it, with all respect 5 years before he might take fedor down. But as of now i don’t see it happening.
You guys are F’n funny. 5 years ago Randy would have gotten his ass kicked by gonzaga et al. He’s in his prime.
WHO CARES! Fedor is done. It has been what, over a year since he fought? Then he signed with M1 so he could fight no-name fighters and keep his status. Fedor is nothing anymore, so Randy doesn’t need to fight him.
i wont say as far as that, fedor is different. They might think he is over hype but you will see he is in a different level.
Fedor is definitely on a different level than G.G. Knocking out Cro Cop shouldn’t get you a title shot. Fedor is a dominant fighter, but the issue could be that he hasn’t faced any tough competition lately. Now, I don’t think he’s ducking fights. I think he just wants the money he deserves and instead of playing the UFCs games, he went and got the money. I do not believe we will ever see Randy and Fedor fight. Sucks but if it does happen, it will be in a situation like Silva/Liddell where its after the best parts of their careers. Could be too late already, who knows?
Uh Russ, he’s not ducking anybody if he’s still willing to fight in co-promotions. M1 is offering a lot of cash to champions from other promotions to fight Fedor, but I think Dana White would never RISK Having his champions lose to another promotions champ.
rush? i think you never had understand the level of fighting fedor has? he is still in his prime 30 plus years old. And he just intelligent to sign in M1 rather than Ufc, Ufc offers much lower, just look at what randy reason for leaving it. And do you consider fighters in M1 can? i don’t think so? have tried mma? no fighter who fights in mma is a can. They have the guts and pride to fight unlike most people i hear just commenting online pretending to be tough. Give this athletes a credit they deserve that can you go train 5 hours a day and not be able to play your ps2? hmm i don’t think so.
The UFC has really messed up Randy will not fight for them anytime soon. word is underground that he will leave his belt behind. furthermore fedor will not risk fighting Randy theres to much money and statis up for grabs. who wants to be A tim Silvia or G.G. there image took A big hit.
Who Cares??? I’ll tell you who cares, Dana does. He’s addressed this recently and teased the possibility of him promoting this fight on a UFC card in 2008. Until Randy’s contract expires and an announcement is made, I believe Dana will do everything in his power to make this fight happen under a UFC PPV.
A lot of things don’t add up here. Randy had the opportunity to fight Fedor in April of this year for BODOG but instead signed with the UFC for less money. Why?
Why does he all of a sudden want to fight Fedor now? Is he using it as an excuse to leave the UFC? Is he more confident now than before? No reporter ever asks him this question.
he missed out on 3 million when he didn’t take the bodog fight, gotta be crazy, but some say his heart is in the ufc. Regardless it is weird that he didn’t want to then but does now.
Your underground source should stay underground. Fedor would destroy the natural and to say he wouldn’t fight because he’s afraid of losing shows that ur a noob to the sport
im sick of hearing about this fight.yeah it would be good but there is plenty other fights i would love to see.as for blaming the ufc alone for it not happening is wrong. i think all three parties ie randy,fedor and ufc can share the blame.
Why should or why would the UFC “co-promote” an event with an organization like M-1? “Co-promote” is just a euphemism for creating a competitor! I’d have serious concerns about UFC management if they were to fall for nonsense like a Couture-Emelianenko match-up with M-1 banners all over the place on a UFC broadcast.
Randy signed an agreement to fight four fights. He turned down Big Nog and therefore, he is RETIRED (not resigned.) I hope the UFC throws an army of lawyers at Randy if he tries to skip out on his obligation to fulfill the contract he gladly signed back when he was just an old man coming off a two fight losing streak.
Wow Anon O’Mus you must be a lawyer to know so much about Randys contract. Actually to say that you must have inside information, maybe you have seen the contract and know more about it than anyone else or Randy for that matter.
If their is a time limit on his contract I’m sure Randy’s lawyer has explained his obligations to him. Other wise I dont believe Randy would be making the statements about Fedor and himself. Is it so difficult to believe that Dana White would like to lead everyone to believe that Randy has no out. Looking back on Dana Whites track record and the truth I’ll go with Randy on this one.
Anon O’Mus your just basing you facts on those you hear on youtube buddy? randy is smarter than that. Ufc itself is a big wall to bump into so i think he did made his homework before trying to release those statement that he did. And do you know how big M1 is to look at them like that? they could even afford fedor unlike Ufc who can’t? and fedor is not fighting cans. He did prove himself long before you know there is a sport called MMA.
UFC has gone to ****, and Dana White is the person to blame, that
greedy self-rightous bastard!!!