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i am really looking forward to the maia-quarry fight myself.

this fight should be one of the best fights of the night!~

ChuckX, you said “yea I dont think so either….if anything, the new years eve bash would be the closest thing to the "biggest fight in ufc history" thats what I want to see….Forrest and Rasha, Rampage and Wanderlei, Mir and Nog….doesnt get much bigger than that…”

Randy/Brock is a bigger fight than any of those 3 fights. Were you trying to combine the value of those 3 fights when comparing it to Randy/Brock?

Two TUF fighters, a lopsided title fight and part 3 of a match.

Once the PPV numbers come out, then we can discuss what the biggest fight in UFC history is.

The New Years event has 3 main event worthy fights on it and it still won’t sell as much as this UFN card with Brock and Randy headlining it, making it a PPV.

It definitely Won’t be a lay n’ pray main event… the rest of the card kinda’ sucks though

I guess he meant that he will lose on purpose so he won’t have to face Nog who’s bound to win against Mir.

Syd, still doesn’t make sense

Clarification- The only way he can lose is by throwing the fight. The only reasonable explanation for such an outcome is fear of Nog, whom I believe he has consistently ducked before.

Yeah, what a coward, he ducked Nog to go looking for FEDOR, get real.

Lol Gord, i agree 100%

The fedor fight was win-win for couture. He makes a ton of money, and he either loses to the best or becomes the “best” hence no need to fight Nog. A Nog loss is much more damaging to his legacy than a Fedor loss. True champions don’t care about maintaining their legacy, they fight all comers (as decided by the promoter of course).

I have no idea why some of you guys are so hooked on a guy who’s, what, 16-8. He beat Sylvia and Gonzaga (not too bad, but let’s face it, neither guy is tearing up the ladder to a #1 spot). His two fights before that, he got KTFO by Chucky. Twice. I just don’t see it. The whole Fedor thing? Wow, that’s an arguement I thought we squashed on here ages ago. He passed up the chance to fight Fedor after he retired the first time. Probably a smart move, as it wouldn’t be NEAR the $$$ it would have been earlier this year. Bypass Nog, b/c IMO, he would lose, and then the fight with Fedor wouldn’t be worth what I left in the toilet earlier.Nog would tie him up in a knot. And in all honesty, I think Brock will overwhelm him. Where will Randy have the advantage in this? Stand up? No. Randy isn’t exactly a knockout artist. In the clinch (where his bread and butter dirty boxing ala Greco-Roman usually works)? No. How can he overpower someone who outweighs him by 55-60 pounds of muscle? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Big Poopy was bigger than him too. Bigger, but NOWHERE near as strong as Brock. On the ground? No. Captain Paycheck only has two submission victories. Where I will give Randy the edge, and these are NO SMALL things: gameplanning (he’s one of the best) and experience (He does have 24 pro fights, after all). But I don’t think those two things will be enough. Maybe not enough to get out of the first round.

chefdaddy, that was one of the most spot-on comments I’ve read so far regarding this event. I couldn’t agree with you more. In my opinion, this fight is just a technicality for Randy, as he now has to fill his remaining fights in the UFC. As for Brock, this will be a huge step up the ladder, beating a brand-name guy like Randy Couture. In no way will this go anywhere but in Brocks favour. You could give me 8 to 1 odds on Randy and I still wouldn’t bet 100 bucks on him.

Randy’s specialty (or his strength), in my opinion, based on the fights I’ve watched, is his wrestling. But then you have a guy like Brock Lesnar who can out-wrestle anyone in the UFC right now, and probably for years to come. If Randy goes for the takedown, he won’t get it, and he wants to stand up he will get killed.

I actually think Randy has an advantage in the standup…by all means not a knockout puncher standing but he held his own against Gonzoga and Tim. Brock still looks like robot when throwing punches….if Randy doesn’t get old over night and comes in the way he did last year I pick Randy to win the standup on his way to a UD. That being said I thought Herring was going to kill brock so what do I know!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t get me wrong, ANYTHING can happen in this sport, that’s why we love it so much. Hell, if we could always predict the winner, why bother watching it? I think he put a whoopin’ on Gonzaga b/c quite frankly, I think Gonzaga is over rated. and Big Tim was TERRIFIED to go to ground with him, so he kept looking for the takedown while getting punched in the face. And I’m not a Brock nuthugger or a Randy hater (don’t hate him, don’t like him…….I nothing him).

COMMON SENSE NOT REQUIRED. :)

I was wondering where you were at B.W.

At least he spells “loses” right….gotta give him that.

Thanks for the credit:)

I love how Sylvia and Gonzaga are all of a sudden cans now. I’m sure you were the same guy that picked Gonzaga and Sylvia to run right through Randy, right?

It’s the Anderson Silva argument. Dan Henderson was considered a top 10 p4p fighter before Silva beat him, but now, ohh he’s not that great. And Rich Franklin was, and still is, a top three 185er, yet since he got destroyed by Silva, he’s not that great. Despite the fact that his ONLY losses in his career are to Silva twice and Machida once. But yea, the 185 division is a joke, and Anderson Silva is fighting nobodies…

I’m not saying Randy could beat Fedor, but it’s idiotic not to give the guy credit for his wins over Sylvia and Gonzaga. This isn’t boxing, a 16-8 record in MMA is normal. Especially when you’re going back and forth from division to division and constantly fighting quality competition.

By the way, Gonzaga and Sylvia are STILL top 10 fighters in the HW division….

Personally I think Mclovin will take it easier then most think. I will be rooting heavily for Couture, the smaller, weaker guy. If he can pull this off it will, once again, be absolutly inspirational.

And yeah your right, the Kenny and Joe is a very close one as well, I am just a much bigger fan of Joe then Kenny.