Randy Couture: Gina Carano vs Cyborg Santos 'was an amazing five minutes'

It was a good fight. While I am disappointed that it did not continue to the second round, it was a valid stoppage.

If the fight went to later rounds, I think Gina may have had the edge. I would like to see a rematch down the road if Gina can put together a few wins.

Randy knows his stuff. She will be back. The question is what is she going to do to make it more competitive?

I think she gave up the mount too quickly. She was afraid of Cyborgs Jits I’m sure, but to give up such a dominant position I felt was a huge mistake. She should have stayed there and GNP forcing Cyborg to get out of it or at least wear her down significantly. She just stood up and let her get to her feet. Bad Bad move!!!!

Did not follow the gameplan; it had nothing to do with her training, or Couture; it was all nerves/mental on Gina’s part. Actually on both their parts, I think the pressure got to both of them. I don’t know why Gina didn’t maintain mount at least one of the times it hit the ground; she just stood up and I didn’t understand that. Especially considering she was getting killed in the stand up exchanges. Cyborg going for that hip throw twice when she had underhooks, and then ending up mounted twice was pretty bad too. As far as an entertaining 5 minutes, that it was. But as far as technique goes, it went out the window in this one.

Good experience for both; I think Gina needed to slow/calm down in this one. Cyborg did what she needed to do, but she also got too hasty and put herself in a couple bad positions. Also IMO it says something about womens mma and cutting weight. You look at the mens divisions, the majority of these guys are solid muscle at whatever weight they’re fighting at. They’re cutting 10-15 lbs to weigh in. Usually if someone looks a little soft they can probably make the next weight class down. Cyborg is a solid 140 lbs no doubt, I think Gina and just about any other chick that ends up fighting Cyborg at 140 will be giving up the size unless they wanna get ripped, and I doubt most women want that look regardless of the results they’d see inside the cage.

It was a really exciting fight. its posted on Micheal Bisping’s web site www.bisping.tv (not sure if it will be available to view in the US but fans from the UK and europe can watch it)

On a side note, bad news for any Wanderlie Silva fans in Bispings blog on his site he says that the potential fight between him and wandy isnt going to happen as Wandy has just went in for surgery on his face (I know hes ugly but…lol) he says that the romours are he’s out for the rest of the year.

Hope Wandy gets back in the octogon soon.

i bet couture and gina start dating, i love mma drama

I didn’t get to see the fight but I heard gina’s grappleing was terrible. What was randy teaching her??

ufc really needs to do a womens TUF..it would be the highest rated program in the history of spike tv..dana doesnt care about womens mma, but he sure as fuck cares about ratings..and money…and womens tuf is both

It just sounds like Couture is doing “damage control”.

Great Picture. MMA fight pics are just getting better and better.

good lord! look at those cannons on cyborg!

Gina gave up the mount. This is not an opinion—-just watch the fight again. She did not fight intelligently but even if she had, she might not have won anyway. Santos is by all appearances, not entirely female. I wouldn’t be surprised if her testosterone level weren’t approximately that of an average adult male. Her ripped and inordinately large muscles indicate steroid use (as of yet undetectable)though I hope that’s not the case. And if Gina really is dating Nick Diaz, then her judgment really is really on tilt.