Randy Couture Looking At Moving To The UFC Light Heavyweight Division

by Kelvin Hunt on Sep 2, 2009 6:58 AM EDT in News Comment 5 comments

UFC heavyweights Randy Couture and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira face off.

Maybe this year, or maybe the first of next year," said Couture of his next bout. "I haven’t really looked at the cards and the shows that they have. What’s on the schedule, I don’t know, but I’m especially leaning towards dropping down. I’m pushing in weight. It would be easy for me to make 205 and there’s more interesting fights there right now

I mentioned here that it was likely that "The Natural" would make the move back down to the UFC light heavyweight division, and asked if he could make the jump successfully. I thought the only interesting fight for him at heavyweight now would be a match up with Mirko Cro Cop, but that hinged on whether or not Mirko could get back Junior Dos Santos at UFC 103. Couture also mentioned some upcoming movie projects and other options he has in regards to his MMA career. He mentioned that those projects would not interfere with his training camps for fights.

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by theworldsoldestsport on Sep 2, 2009 10:26 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Randy is better off at HW. He doesn’t have the quickness for LHW and at his age the weight cut will kill him.

by villin on Sep 2, 2009 11:20 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Yea know

I think it’s interesting you brought up the weight cut….hadn’t really thought about it at his age. I wonder how much of an effect it would have…he’d be cutting about 15 lbs….or less…I mean he had to adjust his training so he wouldn’t keep losing weight as a HW as the fight approached…

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by Kelvin Hunt on Sep 2, 2009 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

He doesn’t have much weight to cut compared to some other LHWs but his body type is naturally lean so it has always been hard for him to make 205 and have any kind of stamina. It’s been over three years since his last cut to 205 and it doesn’t get any easier to cut weight as you get older.

by villin on Sep 2, 2009 11:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs