Antonio Rodrigo Minotauro Nogueira reportedly agrees to fight Randy Couture at UFC 101 in August

No crap, Nog is signing…nog is a warrior. Randy is the flaky one!

Damn right John. Also Nog won’t get stopped or even look like he did last time. He’s training his boxing with Roach now and his BJJ will be on point with mini Nog, Jacare, Bitteti and Galvao at his camp. He will probly lose to the weight to regain some of his speed back. It’s just sad that this is a 3 round affair instead of 5.

NNR.. It’s more about the physical conditioning he comes in with, Nog’s boxing has been pretty good for years now, the question is if his body can hold up for more wars.. this fight should’ve happened about 2 years ago!

nNR: Nog is training with roach? Really? should pay dividends for Nog who is a very under rated boxer.

I dont think that Nog is done at all. Dont want to take anything away from Mir who is GARBAGE, but that wasnt Nog who he just beat. He beat a staph infection Plagued Nog with a bad knee. after Mir gets killed by Brock I would like to see Nog give Mir the beating that he luckily escaped the first time they fought.

Randy doesnt have too many advantages in a match up against NOg.
Nog has the better stand up, and easily the best mma jitsu the heavyweight division has ever seen. People talk about how impressed they were that Randy defended all of Jacre’s sub attempts….But Randy out weight Jacre by a TON!!!! Randy will not feel comfortable fighting Nog on the ground. Only real advantage I can see for Randy is the Clinch….Other than that Randy will get out classed in all the other phases of the fight!

If Nog comes in the same shape he was in the first round against Herring, he has this fight!..

hmm. I seem to remember Nog taking a nap or something in that first round against herring… maybe he just decided to take a break or rest or something.

People who bring up the Jacare-Couture match should realize that if it went like that Nog will win the decision(going for subs counts on cards not defending/stalling). Trivia for those who may not know -Nog has beaten 4 of the 5 HWs to ever beat couture.

we all figured nog would except this fight whenever…

its getting ol’captin paycheck to sign~ thats the hard part..

lets see if randy ducks nog……….again~

C-mon stinky! Dont buy into the “Randy ducked Nog” crap. Randy was looking to fight Fedor. How was that ducking Nog? And if you read the story, it says “the natural agreed to fight last week” And now Nog is accepting the fight. Randy is going to smash Nog!

yeah i know randy was looking to fight fedor..

that is exactly how he was trying to duck nog the fist time..

honestly? i was just taking a stabb at randy.

he will probably take the fight~ and he might win as well..

Cool!

this will be a very competitive fight..

i wouldnt say randy smashes nog(if nog comes prepared)..

i think it would be a close scored decision fought out

between two of mma’s vets!

NNR: Thanks for that very interesting fact that you posted.

Could you imagine if this fight had taken place in 2004? lol it wouldnt even fave been a discussion. Nog would have HANDLED Randy like a lil Biatch! He would have beaten the crap out of Randy standing and then probably finished him with like an anaconda or something hot like that!

I still like Nog’s chances against Randy. what I like even more is that after Nog’s performance against Mir, he will be an under dog against couture so I look forward to betting money on Big nog. Nog has won me a lot more money than what he has lost me on the Mir fight, so I gotta go with Nog. After his embarressing performance against Mir, he will have a lot to prove, making him extremely dangerous against Couture.

It really is a shame that Randy is a Biatch and waited till Nog looked like crap against Mir to accept this fight. This fight doesnt do the match up justice. 3 rounds? r u kidding? biatch move on Randy’s part since he knows that a 5 rounder would severely benefit Nogueira! How convienent Mr. “Captain Paycheck”>

You can find more info on Captain Paycheck at www.DuckedNog4ever.com! hahah

Randy is going to tko Nog in the second. If not Randy can definatly avoid submissions and beat Nog via decision.

john i’ve told you before if you think randy was ducking nog to fight fedor, then you make no sense on this, randy wanted to fight the pride champion so there would be no mistaking who was the heavyweight champ. fighting nog would not have settled anything. he wanted a big payday and to fight the other champ. if nog wanted to fight randy he should have been the champ when zuffa bought pride. I know you don’t think nog is better than FEDOR. you’re not ducking someone by trying to fight the best. at that time and still to this day FEDOR is the best heavyweight out there.

and by calling him out you’re not ducking anyone.

great post john~

buttcrack~ saying randy didnt duck nog cause he

wanted to fight fedor is foolish..

that might have been the case at first~ but after

randy knew there would be no chance at getting fedor

he should have fought nog.. but he didnt!!

he let the ufc make a new belt.. that is ducking nog.

We’ll find out who the better fighter is now stop talking down on Randy.

Thank Stinky. Like you said, Randy let the UFC make another belt because he had to duck NOg. Yes he ducked Nog! Why? Because had he fought Nog, he would have lost and there would be NO FEDOR Fight! Couture is a spoiled lil biatch…crying about fighting Fedor and following Fedor everywhere. Get off Fedor’s nuts Randy. Randy was NEVER Ranked Higher than nog, yet Couture feels entitled to fight Fedor as if that fight would crown a true best heavyweight on the planet. Such a bunch of BS. what has Randy ever done at HW? Won a decision against tim, a guy that top dogs like Nog and Fedor actually finish. Then Randy beats a Dea in thew headlights Gonzaga and thinks he is a heavyweight GOd. GTFO here!

What the hell makes randy think that he actually deserves Fedor. Randy hasnt beaten any top dogs really. He never beat Barnett…never faced Arlovski and they were in the UFC together for a long time. That fight should have been booked a long time ago.

F Captain Paycheck! I got no love for that dude. enjoy your BS movie rolls. one day you might actually win a Razzie for worst actor!

john, i like them both, but randy was dominating tim, nog wasn’t. i sure hope you don’t think mir is better than FEDOR because he knocked nog out in the 2nd round and fedor couldn’t in 2 tries. I’m a nog fan but i would have rather seen the two champs fight rather than see couture fight nog. I AGREE WITH ABOUT 90 PERCENT OF YOUR POSTS BUT I THINK YOU LET YOUR HATE FOR RANDY GET YOU OUT OF YOUR HED A LITTLE ON THE POSTS ABOUT HIM.

you guys are really gonna make it sweet when randy punks your boy even harder than mir did.

AS FOR STINKY, I DON’T THINK IT WAS DUCKING NOG, I THINK IT WAS TIME FOR SOMEONE TO PUT DANA IN THE POSITION TO SIGN FEDOR. LETS BE HONEST AND I KNOW JOHN HAS TO AGREE WITH THIS, DANA MAKES NOG THE NO. 1 CONTENDER AND SAYS FEDOR IS REALLY NOT THAT GOOD AT THE SAME TIME. DANA DOESN’T WANT TO PAY THE MONEY FOR US TO SEE THE BEST MATCHUP HE WANTS US TO SETTLE FOR WHAT HE CAN SUPPOSEDLY AFFORD. I AGREE WITH RANDY BECAUSE ALL THE OTHER BELTS HAVE BEEN UNIFIED FROM PRIDE EXCEPT THE HEAVYWEIGHT, BECAUSE DANA IS A CHEAP BIATCH.

John and Stinky, excellent new nickname for the natural. I just find it amazing that people refuse to admit that Couture has faults(read his book). Follow the money and you will see that it explains all of his actions. Nog fights because he’s a warrior not for paychecks or legacies and it’s clearly documented that he has wanted to face couture since the 2000 KOK tourneys. I can’t keep going because i’ll get more pissed off and go on a rant. Also anyone wanna talk about Couture being fed title shot after title shot for the sole reason of being captain america as opposed to deserving it hence perpetuating the “natural” hype?

Every fighter has their faults NNR. Ive never read Couture book but Ive seen the documentary on him. And he never had anything handed to him. It was no secret that the UFC had him swimming up river the whole time. “Legacy” and ofcourse “money” should be a part of every fighters life. Randy is one of the big sellers in PPV. Why would he not try to get more money? I could also go on and on but you get my point.

NNR, i don’t know any fighters without faults, especially randy. If they were willing to do it for nothing i’d love to see it. when you look at the payouts and the money coming in you can see the fighters are really underpaid. the great Fedor knows this and won’t fight for dana for this reason. I think randy’s actions were more rebellion against the evil empire than ducking anyone. it was a way of showing his dissatisfaction with dana’s lackluster attempt to sign fedor. he was pissed that dana wasn’t willing to pay for the services of the best heavyweight alive,FEDOR.

I would be willing to place bets on this fight.

C’mon John, you seem a bit too biased with Nog and everything. Aren’t you giving Randy even a .000001% chance of winning this one? I understand that there are a lot of Randy haters here, but I believe if this was to happen in 2004, Randy would have a bigger chance due to the fact that he’s almost 5 years younger.

of coarse I think Randy has a great chance. Randy will even be the favorite…But I hate him so I am biased! Nothing I really posted was a lie, but he is better than i give him credit for.
Yes I am worried!

I totally disagree about 2004! Randy’s striking was still crap back then. It started improving a couple years ago around the time of the Tim Sylvia fight. In 2004 Nog was AMAZING. He would have beat Randy up standing and subbed him on the ground!
In 2004, nog would have been 5 years younger as well….That was Nog’s prime.

if an In his prime randy fights in his prime NOg…..Nog wins that fight 8 out of 10 times. I am dead serious too!

I get ya…hehe!

i didn’t say he sucks, but he’s not around the UFC anymore for a reason

I agree with you 100% JRE, I have made this comment to John on numerous occasions, as far as John is concerned that was not the real Nog, it was a clone. The real one was taken away by aliens for study. He is back now so we should see a new and improved performance from him even though he is not getting any younger. John is in a minority group that believe Randy is and was ducking Nog, beating Fedor proves everything and if at his age, as he said he only has few fights left in him, of course you would want to fight the best in the world nd the guy who beat Nog. And in a sport where an injury could stop you competing for life, why shouldn’t he get the most amount of money he can.
John really has some serious hate for Randy, I have never seen him talk about a fighter with such venom. Randy will smash Nog when they fight and the excuse will be it was because Randy waited until Nog was past his prime to fight him, or it still isn’t the real Nog, the aliens have still got hold of the real one, and it’s the clone still making the real Nog look bad.

Ade, LMFAO! I agree.

that’s some funny shit. I’ll take randy in this one too, but i expect it to be very competetive. Randy will be faster and more explosive though and I expect him to set a high pace and wear nog down. I don’t see him beating on Nog and getting caught with a late submission like a handfull of Nog’s opponents.

at age 40 Van Arsdale had 1 loss to his name. I would Love to see what NOg is doing when he is as old as Randy! I would bet good money that he is retired!

Good story, and Yes I cant stand Randy, but I hate forrest more!

it would be massive but i think they would put friendship 1st before revenue. i’d think there’s more marketable fighte for randy to have rather than fighting his pupil. i’d rather have randy have another shot at brock than see him fight forrest, it actually make no sense in randy(asuming he beats forrest) to take him out of title contention.