Comments on: Couture vs. Nogueira Likely To Headline UFC 101 in Portland

By: marvelknight4

marvelknight4 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:52:42 +0000

After this fight they should both retire, it doesn’t matter who wins or loses. Big Nog you just got ko’d and Randy, dude, your old, you had a great carrer but don’t become like Ken Shamrock and those kind of guys. Just accept it buddy, you can still escape that.

By: muaythai4life

muaythai4life — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:24:06 +0000

I don’t think Mir has even decent stand up. I know he looked great against Nog, but so did Tim Sylvia, Heath Herring, and pretty much everybody against Nog. If we exit the whole “what have you done for me lately” mindset in fighting, Mir has NEVER looked impressive in his stand-up. He looked like crap against Vera, Marcio Cruz, Tim Syvlia, pretty much everyone. He does have great jits for sure!!! But I think Lesnar kills him this time. Too bad though cause I hate 1 trick pony fighters like Lesnar, but Mir won’t make it out of R1

By: nightmare

nightmare — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:35:47 +0000

mir’s stand up is improving he did great with BIG NOG we will see if it still gets better

By: nightmare

nightmare — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:34:57 +0000

randy couture tko!

By: jeremy

jeremy — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:55:25 +0000

couture will win probably tko 2nd rd nogueira is weak in strikin!!!!

By: willyd

willyd — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:12:31 +0000

Mir has excellent stand-up because he sticks to the basics. He was trying to teach that in TUF, 3 punch combos. If you are going to go in, throw at least 3 punches. He picked Big Nog apart by this simple rule. Lesnar has yet to take a big shot or combos to the face. Mir can snap a faster jab then Lesnar’s right cross, so should be a good stand-up contest.

By: Jazzkok

Jazzkok — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:03:01 +0000

UFC MANZ
You make a great point. Mir beat lesnar and nog. I think mir is a great mmartist, i just think big nog made his stand up look better than it really is. I’ve never thought mir had great stand up and when he fought big nog, his stand up looked great, but only because nogeira didn’t even fight. imo mir’s stand up is ok.

By: bigchris2328

bigchris2328 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:57:28 +0000

should be good and go either way, both fighters are on the downhill of their career, great fighters, but nonetheless on the downhill. im rooting for randy because he is ex-army, but I love to see anyone who has a great bjj background. awesome match making for the ufc. no ken-flo bj though just strip bj of the title and cut him… no room for his ego and attitude in the ufc.

By: ufcmanz

ufcmanz — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:50:33 +0000

Sounds like your giving Mir no credit at all “can’t believe how good nogueira made mir look in their fight”??? Does anyone even remember the old Frank Mir ,he was after all UFC HW Champ… I think you need to go look at some old Mir Fights “We’ll see if he’s back for good in this next fight”.. But until then he’s still the Number 1 HW fighter in the UFC “beat Lesnar and beat Nog”

By: ufcmanz

ufcmanz — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:43:11 +0000

It’s a good match up.. I’d really like to see Couture back at 205 for a few fights tho…I think Couture can hang with the top guys because his game plans are amazingly used well. Not saying he can beat Machida or Rampage or Evans just that he’d be a good test for anyone of them because he’d be the bigger guy, and he’s smart guy with alot of exp.