Of all the people that discuss pound-for-pound rankings, there are few more qualified to present their opinions than former UFC champion Randy Couture. “The Natural” broke down his top four, in weight division order (lightest to heaviest). Couture, the first ever champion in two divisions, discusses why he feels these four particular fighters are the best in the world, and what differentiates them from other fighters.
His list is made up of four UFC champions- Jose Also, Georges St. Pierre, Anderson Silva, Jon Jones. Couture speaks particularly highly of Jones, specifically with the 24-year old’s rapid development during his three year UFC career.
Watch as Couture speaks about all four champions and why they are a step above their competition:
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Randy is by far the most overrated fighter in ufc history imo. He does go down in history for his longevity in terms of title fights, ufc fights, etc, but overall this guy, who spent most of his career in the “gods gift to man ufc” would’ve been a blip on Fedor’s radar at any time in his career. Hell Dana and randy are lucky Fedor never was in the ufc.. His biggest accomplishment at the end of the day was beating rizzo, sylvia, and freaking gonzaga, and losing to vera…err beating vera. And beating a guy who fights at 185 in belfort. He lost twice to a 205er in chuck, lost to Brock “the greatest ufc champion in the history of the universe” lol, and got his teeth kicked in by the recently very mortal lyota. On top of it he allegedly cheats on his wives, including his kids mom. Not really interested in him or what he has to say. Much rather here about Fedor ;)
Wow…quite the rant, sounds like you have a real hate on for this guy. I thought the Tim Sylvia fight was awesome…maybe because i didn’t care for Tim too much or maybe the advanced years of Couture.
All that personal life stuff we have no idea about, unless you base your opinion solely on what you read or hear you never fully know the personal story of anyone…i think we all have issues.
I also think Couture was and still is a great ambassador for the sport, he has had a lot of great fights and always took losses with a great sportsman like attitude…never whined.
And what makes you think that any of us want to hear what you have to say? Who are you? What have you done? Its easy to hide behind anonymity when no one can check your accomplishments, or lack there of, and dig into your personal life. We get it, you’re a Fedor…fan…and Randy didn’t name your favorite fighter on his hypothetical, non-existent pound for pound list. Get over it. If you don’t want to hear what he has to say, then don’t click on a link that says, “Randy Couture’s Top 4 Pound-for-Pound UFC Fighters (Video).”
What did you expect it to be?
I’m not a Couture fan by any means, but if you’re going to call him the most overrated fighter, the last thing you that should follow that is how great Fedor is … Fedor could have signed UFC and fought Couture to shut everyone up, but the fact is he didn’t. Nor did he fight Lesnar, or even Mir for that matter. He won 2 bouts against big Nog by decision .. we saw how Mir handled Nog. Do a little research, then form an opinion..otherwise you come across as just plain ignorant..and dare I say may even a little dumb.
Haha damn guys, did I hit a nerve ;) I don’t actually hate randy but I wanted to use this opportunity to point out how much propaganda there is against Fedor, and how much hype there is for randy. You guys did notice you skipped over the sick bones/rashad video to rush over and defend randy or knock Fedor? ;)
@kronisin
You name Brock, Mir, and randy as the 3 guys Fedor could back up his legendary career and “prove” himself with, and you have the nerve to call someone else dumb? So I guess Brock is the greatest of all time in your estimation? And then you down play Fedor’s two.wins over nog, as if you can just change opinion into fact in one sentence.. Btw how did randy fair against nog? Lol. I just stated an opinion, you got personal. You may wanna call out someone who can’t defend himself if youre gonna do so.
@advent
Lol what does anonymity have to do with anything? I just gave an opinion against randy being overrated and backed it up with sound logic. What did you want me to leave my phone number and email? At least I use m y real name. And actually I didn’t even notice the lack of Fedor, and I agree with randy’s most obvious list of all time. I will click anywhere I want and say anything I want. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. It is my opinion. And on that note, what have I done? Well currently I think I’m tied with you all time with most comments that no one cares about, and way behind you in times taking nerd land chat board rhetoric too seriously ;)
I love all 4 fighters he mentioned and couldnt argue against any. Personally I think its spider, bones (who may become #1), Fedor, Gsp, and aldo far behind, from first to last. The reason I have Fedor ahead of Gsp is because of longevity and the fact that Fedor never got caught slipping once in his career… lost twice, and once to effin serra. Aldo may be the best of all time, but he has had trouble finding talent to fight to prove how sick he is. If bones beats rashad he is real close to already being the best p4p of all time. It will just be about longevity at that point.
Wow sunshine..you are kind of dumb. Completely missing the point. I didn’t name the best heavyweights. I simply named off a couple that could potentially cause Fedor some trouble. How can I claim any of those guys are the best when none of them are the current HW champion? Simply pointed out the fact that Fedor couldn’t finish Nog, and Mir finished him in quite the fashion. To sit here and call Fedor one of the best pound for pound fighters when he hasn’t even faced any of the UFC’s contenders (notice how I use the term contenders and not champion) is just absurd.
@Kronisin.
Awww look at you backpeddling..how cute! No no no bro, you’re missing the point…your agreements not only are lame, they don’t make sense. “Fedor sucks cuz he could only beat nog twice in his prime by decision” and “in the last 2 years since I became a fan I saw Mir finish nog twice, so Mir is better than Fedor and everyone else that nog ever beat”. So you just explained away Fedor beating nog in his prime….twice. and I’m dumb. I honestly think you’re the one who doesn’t actually know, and it would explain you continuous personal attacks. Which would be unnecessary if you just had confident sound reasoning. Fedor was murdering the best in the world while the ufc hw division was floundering. Did you not happen to notice that the ufc sucked from about ufc 2 to ufc 50? Why would Fedor come to the ufc back then? Lol Please, actually do your “research”. You may think you’re smart and witty but you picked the wrong guy
Lmao..your a clown and continue to embarass yourself. Read carefully, say it to yourself a few times, then maybe you’ll get it.
Fedor = Not the best pound for pound fighter. Fedor is a wash. He claimed to be the best, but refused to fight the best, or even top contenders in the UFC. He fought Strikeforce’s top talent and tapped out once and had the fight stopped twice…but I guess in your defense he recently beat Jeff Monson.
You’re awesome buddy, I enjoy the laughter you have broughten me on this lovely day.
imo I think Randy is a good fighter and i really wanted to see fedor vs. couture, but we know that fedor felt too good for the ufc and he wanted more money than randy couture. dana white being the business man that he is wanted to test fedor in the ufc, but we all know that fedor got beat by fabricio werdum and big foot silva outside the ufc. Now with this randy got beat by lesnar and machida, so if fedor would of went to the ufc he would of got beat by these newcomers who have more energy than fedor.. tbh fedor is not that important anymore, i could understand the werdum loss because he got submitted but then the loss to silva? come on he is done, so i dont consider him even trying to get into the ufc and if he does he shouldnt get an immediate shot at the belt. by far i think jds is a better fighter than fedor and couture
Pound for pound? Until the UFC has an open weight tournament the pound for pound bs is meaningless. May as well say “who would win in a mind fight between darth vader and mr spock to get the other guy to eat a steaming bowl of sh!t”
To be fair, I would pay good money to watch that.
@Kronisin
Lol your so delusional its kinda cute. It’s easy for me to go back and forth with you, but luckily I can save myself that by telling you to go ask sherdog, yahoo, most mma athletes, hell even the editors of mmafrenzy who is the greatest hw of all time, and they will all tell you Fedor. Period.com. if you’re too new of a fan or just have an agenda then why don’t you just ask somebody to save the embarrassment. Only Dana promotes that Fedor was not the best ever, and only his new cheap clones fully believe it. If you really come on here again and.say Fedor sucks again now then that will be worse than anythin I could say to you.
@Robert
Yeah Fedor isn’t close to his prime now, and is obviously not unbeatable anymore, but for 10 years he was. He wouldn’t deserve an instant title fight based on his recent record, but I think It’s crazy to.believe he wouldn’t compete in the ufc. And I think he would even work up to a title shot…if he ever actually came over. But until then its all rhetoric.
How can you justify Fedor being the top Heavyweight in the world? Because he built a solid record defeating 2nd tier talent?
In a heartbeat Bsbiz.
Don’t ask me, ask most mma pundits and they will all tell you the same. During his run he beat the who’s who of the hw class. Sure he didn’t come over late in his career, which unless someone is a Harvard economist, Idk who could say really deserves the blame for that. But that doesn’t mean he wasn’t the best of all time. Dana just got his pride hurt after that and went on the biggest Fedor smear campaign. I bet that to this fan Dana would admit Fedor was the best hw of all time. Right before he said 8 derogatory things about him. But its this kinda thing where Dana and others have somehow altered history and made some people actually believe Fedor wasn’t a legend that annoys me. Dana doesn’t have to like in, but he doesn’t have to have such a vendetta either…
*to this day
I could care less about Dana’s comments because he’s always in the media trashing something or other. Fedor beat the who’s who of Pride yeah sure, no denying that. But Mirko was considered a legend in pride to..and we saw how he stacked up against UFC competition.
That’s interesting because he’s the only person I ever hear downplay Fedor. Ya but what, now cro cop wasn’t any good? When cro cop came over he map also at the end of his run, just like Fedor is now. Essentially were talking about two different eras, in Fedor’s era pride was the best. Pride was the ufc before the ufc was the ufc. All the top competition was over there, so it would’ve been silly for him to come all the way over to America to fight in a lesser organization. He had a run in his time that has not even been close to duplicated by any other fighter, bar none. That’s why he’s a legend. Ufc has way better competition all around, and it will always get better as athletes, nutrition, and unfortunately peds evolve. But in his 10 year period, he was a monster, and dominated like no one ever has, that’s why he is the best hw all time at this point imo.
that devin needs to get a grip whats cheating on ur wife got to do with pound for pound get a grip devin randy and chuck made the ufc there 2nd fight made mma for me and for most people so dont be so judgemental towards chuck the man is 45 and fighting machida that is a n achivement in its self imagine randy at 23 mate
i ment randy is 45
LETS see how fedor does when he not fighting bumbs
hahahahahaha
*bums
Lol ;)
Randy doesn’t have a big win since 2004 against belfort (if you wanna count that). Or sylvia or gonzaga if you can really count that, which would prove my point because Fedor submitted sylvia in 30 seconds but supposedly that didn’t count. That’s cool that randy made the sport for you, my point was to show how easily perception can be made for us. And look at you, still trying to talk like randy was even from the same planet as Fedor. Which he’s not.