Randy Couture talks Fedor vs Werdum

[BUK7550]

Who the fuck dresses Randy? He's close to 50 yrs old and he dresses like a metrosexual queer.

[kai0shin]

I hope Randy doesn't consider himself a "tougher" competition... With all due respect, Randy would get beheaded against Fedor.

[hanshoz]

if fedor fights werdum, fedor will EASILY destroy werdum. werdum has NOTHING to offer for fedor.

rogers, like it or not, is alot better than werdum.

now i really hope fedor fights werdum to shut up the "trash" talkers.

[howcynicalofme]

@hanshoz

i wouldn't say that. everyfight is different for mma fighters. there is always that risk there. so i wouldn't say werdum doesn't have any chance. everyfighter has their chance to win in a fight. there is no such things as bad fighter in mma. everyone has their chance if they train hard.

[hanshoz]

@howcynicalofme

ofc werdum has a chance (in hell), but thats it. werdum has no ko power, fact! werdums wrestling is not very good, fact! werdum is strong on the ground, where fedor is very strong, too.

fedor can hang in there on the ground with nog in prime. werdum hasnt shown in mma (not grappling tournaments!) that his bjj is above nogs in prime.

werdum, in theory, could submit fedor. but on paper, fedor is going to destroy werdum!

[provrorsbarn]

the heavyweight divsion in the ufc is rly good at the moment...there are alot of guys that can beat fedor....and Im far from a ufc fanboy.....strikeforce does not have any good hevyweights.....only if henderson starts eating at mcdonalds then maybe

[MrShtirlitz]

No offense to Randy, but what a load of crap! Looks like Randy is forced to sing to Dana's tune now.

Fedor mostly fights top caliber fighters. UFC as nothing much to offer to Fedor other than Mir and Lesnar. The rest have already been beaten or too raw to even open their mouth about Fedor.

[TheVideoCommentary]

@MrShtirlitz , the UFC has the #2, 3, 4, 5, 6th and 8th ranked HW fighters. Strikeforce has the 7th ranked (Rogers) and lower ranked.

[jeffsst]

@TheVideoCommentary what ranking is this? who is the panel picking the fighters?

[TheVideoCommentary]

@Jeff , go to bloodyelbow's website and their rankings are the combined top 20 website rankings.

[etuar87]

iam a huge fedor fan but nobody wanna see that fight. fedor has a 3 fight contract with strikeforce so he beats werdum and i hope overeem and then 100% he wents to the UFC. i bet next year he will fight in the UFC cause M1 has now some problems with strikeforce

[ronnied828]

The Russian will beat the piss out of this guy !

[TheVideoCommentary]

ronnie , dude...mellow out on Randy. Randy has always respected Fedor and even said that Fedor would have beaten Lesnar AFTER he lost to Lesnar. Randy is just saying what many of us are saying...that is the fact that Fedor is too good to be fighting lower level opponents.

[nyran125]

Im a huge Fedor fan, but i man starting to get really sick of M1 Global.

So in some ways i agree with Couture. Even M1 Global pulls thier finger out of the money ass and joins UFC or M1 Global should take thier BS bully sht out of the states. I dont want to see UFC-M1. If M1 wants to co promote they should friggin well pay for it too just like UFC pays for it. I agree with Dana thier BS terms are unnacceptable.

Even though im a Fedor fan.

[ender2reynolds]

@nyran125 GTFO

[mootsarella]

i really hope Werdum beats Fedor so ppl can finally STFU and stop saying fedor is the "best ever"

[wmirza76]

Werdum is good fighter but not like fedor, fedor is well rounded fighter in the world, if some one from ufc want to fight fedor thay need to go strick force and i hope fedor will beat them like silvia, and roger

[ipv4]

@wmirza76

Fedor is not the most well rounded fighter in the world he may punch people out but his boxing sucks. I would say GSP is the most well rounded. From kickboxing to boxing to thai boxing to grappling etc.

[ipv4]

@mootsarella even if loses that does not take away any of his accomplishments.

[MrZrod24]

YUP!!!

[ender2reynolds]

@mootsarella STFU

[ronnied828]

Coutaure sounds alittle hostile towards Fedor hear......sounds like a Dana bitch here for some reason........maybe hes pissed that an old washed up Nog beat the shit out of him,a guy Fedor has beat twice in his prime !

[StationaryTransient]

Wow, a comment by you that doesn't talk about someone's dick for once. Congrats.

And lol @ you for taking Sherdog rankings as gospel. Those same rankings you cited list Brock Lesnar as the second best HW in the world. Fucking laughable. Hahaha.

[StationaryTransient]

Oh look, more insults. Try not acting like a kid, people will take you more seriously.

And you consider BRETT ROGERS to be the number six fighter in the world? Hahahah. Please. You have to be kidding me. I don't know where YOU are getting this crap. And WHY would he be fighting Werdum when he could be fighting Overeem? You want to know why? Because his management is concerned with keeping him undefeated, so they feed him cans.

[GirlsLie7]

naaa it's Overeem who kept that off. rumors of steroids... has kept him fighting out of the U.S. plus Overeem only is waiting till june or so to fight back in strikeforce.

so he might as well beat werdum in the mean-time

[TheVideoCommentary]

Girls , there are links in my vid to the article.

[StationaryTransient]

No no, it was Vadim Finkelstein (Fedor's Manager) who is keeping him from fighting.

"We do not fight for the Strikeforce Heavyweight Title. Strikeforce are our partner, and any titles whether it is UFC, Strikeforce, WAMMA, Dream they are just medals. Fedor is above these things."

Straight from the horse's mouth.

And it's no secret that Overeem uses steroids. That's why he fights in Japan where they don't care. He could easily stop and pass the test to fight Fedor though. He has enough mass.

[TheVideoCommentary]

Stationary , yes Vadim said that but Fedor outright said that he still holds the final decision on who he fights. However, Fedor is getting bad advice. It's making him look bad. Regarding steroids, there is zero proof AO took roids. ZERO. Those are rumors made by M1.

[StationaryTransient]

I have no problem saying there is no test evidence to support what I'm saying. BUT, he weighed in at 224 against Buentello in November, 2007. He was 242 against Cro Cop in November 2008. And he weighed in at 254 against Hari in late December of 2008. Not to mention the cranial and facial swelling, a tell tale sign of steroid use.

They're not RUMORS made by M1. They're speculation made by anyone who has seen the guy grow over the last 5 years. Much of which, by the way, has been out of the US.

[TheVideoCommentary]

@ station , right now we all test by blood and urine, so AO is ok in my book since he hasn't got caught. I think it's dangerous to prevent fights based on suspicion.

[TheVideoCommentary]

Girl , you are misinformed. AO is fighting Rogers on May 15th. He wanted to fight Fedor, but Fedor said no. I have a link in my video on this.

[GirlsLie7]

send or show me the link,and I'll check it out

[StationaryTransient]

I love how you can't talk to people without making assumptions and insulting them. Good job.

Fedor WAS the best, when Pride had the talent and UFC didn't. It was a simple observation that the UFC's HW division sucked and Pride's didn't. Now though, he fights nobodies and ducks people (Overeem). If you refuse to see this, you're just willfully ignorant. If you think people like Brett Rogers, Hong-Man Choi, and Tim Sylvia are truly the best in the world, then YOU don't know MMA.

[sandman27892789]

ufc fighters are the most overrated. anderson has only been fed cans, and gsp is big pussy and dana is a ho

[buzzedwithroy]

@sandman27892789 i can agree with you on anderson and dana.

but gsp, damn, he's dominated like just bout every welterweight there is,

and he wasnt thrown JUST grapplers or strikers(where anderson was thrown mostly grapplers). most the people hes fought

have been well rounded. I.e. Jon Fitch, Koshceck, Alvez. Bj jenn.

As for the hardy fight, of course he was gonna take him down. hardy had like NEGATIVE takedown defense. lol.

[StationaryTransient]

Fedor has fought more cans than anyone I can think of. Everyone knows who the best HW fighters in the world are right now, and he probably won't even fight in the organization that owns them before he retires. We'll just keep hearing about him being potentially matched with Ricco Rodriguez, Josh Barnett, or some other clown.

If he comes to the UFC and can beat Mir, Velasquez, Carwin, Dos Santos, and Brock and remain undefeated, THEN he would deserve the god status you make him out to have.

[StationaryTransient]

Arlovski and Sylvia were champs when the HW division was at its worst in UFC history. Neither of them have ever beat anyone considered "great". Both are now irrelevant in mainstream MMA.

[jsg103]

@morph995 Yeah werdum trains at randy's a fair amount. I usually stop by and take a few of their classes when I'm in vegas and i've seen werdum there leaving the pro classes a couple of times.

[jsg103]

@morph995 You completely misunderstood what I was saying. I understood you like fedor and all but you shouldn't fly off the handle just bc not everyone worships him like you do, he's just a fighter.

[cheeto101]

Based on what? Wins over "great" opponents like Fujita, Thompson and Sylvester? The best HW win Ubereem has is ground game challenged Mark Hunt, who my little sister could submit if she got him to the ground. Ubereem has zero relevant HW wins. Plus lets be honest, he is never going to defend that SF title, and if he does, he will get busted for being the obvious roider that he is.

[Jerblin]

Really? Cro Cop aged 6 years in the time between his fight with Fedor (2005) and his fight with Gonzaga (2007)? LMAO

You people act like they were on these huge losing streaks before going to the UFC. Since his fight with Fedor, Nog went 7-1 (1 loss by split decision..) before Frank Mir knocked him out.. IMO he wasn't past his prime, PRIDE fanboys just cant give any credit to UFC fighters..

[13Azzinoth37]

Man i credit the UFC with being the most diverse and talented company of fighters in MMA today. But these idiot UFC fanboys talk like any UFC fighter would crush another fighter from a different company. Its ridiculous. Frank Mir hasn't proved shit, Brock Lesnar hasn't proved shit, Shane Carwin hasn't proved shit. Cain Velasquez is shaping up to be a legit contender but he still hasn't proved anything. People get carried away, some of the top Pride guys are contenders/champs in the UFC even now.

[Jerblin]

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. How has Mir not proven "shit"? He won the UFC belt twice and has a winning record in the UFC. This is pretty much exactly what I'm talking about. If Mir had the same exact career, only instead of a cage in America, it took place in a ring in Japan, you'd probably love the guy.

[13Azzinoth37]

That's the thing. And how have his opponents been any better than Fedor's? His level of competition hasn't been stellar. Except for perhaps Tim Sylvia and a straight from the hospital Nog. Where Mir's career took place has nothing to do with my opinion lol. I look at facts instead of spouting the bullshit Dana White tells me. The only guy you can justify is Mir out of the people I listed, and not even Mir has the kind of career Fedor has had.

[Jerblin]

Obviously u wont admit where Frank's career took place affects ur judgment, but it clearly does since you seem 2 have contempt for Dana(You couldnt help bringing him up, though its totally irrelevant) & the reason I commented on Mir is because its so ridiculous. I admit Brock is inexperienced & Carwin is untested, but Mir is undeniably a great HW. Funny u say u look at facts. Everything I said (Mir has a winning UFC record, 2x champ, beat Nog) is FACT while everything u say is just gay fanboy BS

[jsg103]

@Jerblin I'm not necessarily disagreeing with most of what you say but to say Nog isn't out of his prime is ridiculous. He's looked like shit for the last 4 or 5 fights. The beatings have taken a toll and he will never be the same. He looks like a zombie and can barely move anymore. I think he still would have lost to cain in his prime but he is a shell of his former self.

[Jerblin]

I agree. Nog isn't the same fighter, but he's not past his prime like Mark Coleman or anything. He's still a top fighter.

My point is whenever a PRIDE guy loses to a UFC guy, he's either past his prime or there is a list of excuses. But when Fedor beat Sylvia (who actually was coming off a loss) PRIDE fans started calling him the UFC champ killer.

[jsg103]

@Jerblin Yeah exactly. Smart business strategy on fedor's part though. By fighting guys like aa and tim that were champs in a very very weak hw division they can use the ufc's promotional machine against them. Their only notable wins are each other and when ever the fought other top ten guys they lost.

[MrWolverine777]

I like verdum but Fedor will destroy him bad style match up for Verdum Fedor is too fast and powerful Verdum.

[FaaS85]

At 1:31 was that a fart?

[Cha0sStriker]

Seriously, who is Randy couture to talk about Fedor like that.

He is the most overrated wash up in the history of the sport.

Pshhhh

Take that UFC trash somewhere else

[13Azzinoth37]

lol @ all the arguments. Fedor is the best, get over it. Jeez, MMA fans are so retarded. I should say 'UFC fans' though, because these people know nothing about MMA.

[KillaCutes]

Look, Fedor hasn't fought any bums. He's been fighting good fighters, but if he truly wants to test himself, he has to face the fighters in the UFC heavyweight division.

[Mocktezuma111]

Horseshit! Randy STFU!!

get off Fedor's nut's.

[Jerblin]

Randy ain't lying. Since PRIDE died Fedor has been fighting bums (aside from Arlovski maybe).

[phrek75]

@Jerblin mm the look at the crap the UFC HWs are fighting in terms of records and rankings, enough said. Look at the competition the hyped HW superstars has fought the last 2 years and then compare it to what Fedor has fought...really haha

[Jerblin]

What? Fedor's two biggest wins (Nog and Cro Cop) fight in the UFC these days and they get their butt's kicked by UFC heavyweights way worse than Fedro ever beat them. Fedor just fought Rogers, a guy who changes tires @ wal mart and only started training a few years ago. Def not top competition. And he STILL fucked Fedor's face up.

[phrek75]

@Jerblin Well of course, Nog and Crocop arent the fighters they used to be, they are burned out, everyone knows that, how come you dont ;)

Just because Rogers used to change tires, doesnt mean he sucks, he is a very legit HW and could easily beat some of the hyped top HWs in the UFC and vice versa.

I guess Shane Carwin sucks as well being a full-time engineer and with a record of: 11-0-0. and 1 win over Gonzaga, rest he fought, cans.

Being biased must be a pain, have a nice day sir.

[Jerblin]

What exactly did I say that sounded biased? I was talking a little shit when I said Brett fucked Fedor's face up, but everything else is true. Cro Cop was not past his prime and was on a 5 fight win streak when Gonz kicked his head off and Nog was never KO'd before Mir knocked him out..

And who is talking about Shane Carwin? IMO he's just as overrated as Rogers. He has one decent win in the UFC and for some odd reason he jumped ahead of Cain and JDS for a title shot.

[jsg103]

@Jerblin He jumped ahead because he is older and may not have a lot of time left to make a title run. Also cain's management said they weren't in any hurry for him to challenge for it, he is young and needs experience badly. JDS said that he would not under any circumstances get in the title picture until big nog was out of it, nog is his idol.

[phrek75]

@Jerblin And no, he didt fuck up his face. He re-opened and old cut with the first left jab he threw, make the rest of the fight looking ohhhhhh so dramatic, haha ;)

[phrek75]

@Jerblin Not to mention, Randy has been talking about forever, how badly he wants to fight Fedor, it was everything to him. Then finally with 1 fight left on his contract and getting ready to go overseas to chase Fedor down, what does he do, he signs a 6 fight contract with the UFC.

I think UFC HW are afraid to go fight Fedor, cause when he beats them, they lose value and wont get inv back to the UFC.Dana wont hype ppl that lose to Fedor, he rather thrashtalk them as always,that lieing snake.

[team9champ]

what the heck is this redneck talking? this overrated bum should give the win to brandon vera and shut the fuck up. This is one of the most overrated fighters that ever existed. The best hw fighters are outside of crappy ufc. Josh Barnett or Alistair Overeem would destroy in one night the whole ufc. Forget about what could do fedor there. And finally ufc doesnt even deserve fighters like fedor,mousasi or overeem.

[Mocktezuma111]

@team9champ

Amen brother!

[cheeto101]

Hahaha, so Roid monkey barnett and Ubereem are better opponents then Lesnar, Cain and Mir? Puhleeze. Overeem has yet to face a top ten HW and barnett couldnt pass a roid test to save his life.

[shifty2283]

Yeah Fedor is gonna eat Werdum and then what. there are almost no more good heavyweights left in strikeforce. I guesshe could get the winner of Overeem vs Rodgers or maybe even if Arlovski wins a couple they could set up Andrei vs Fedor 2 but the competion is slim as far as heavyweights in strikeforce.

[PonchoRamirez1989]

what disturbs me though is that Randy is usually very honest and straight up with his views on Fedor and generally speaks in an understanding and logical manner. This time however he's gone a whole 180 and his comments are laced with Zuffa smack-talk-esque rhetoric... not cool.

[jonnykenziecross]

Ya me too, Randy was impressed with how Werdum handled Bigfoot Silva's size but wasn't impressed with how Fedor dealt with Roger's size? There was a 50 pound difference between Fedor and Rogers while there was a 25 pound difference between Werdum and Silva. Don't get it Randy!!! I think that is a UFC leash around Randy's neck, not a scarf and it's cutting off the blood to Randy's brain.

[PonchoRamirez1989]

Werdum looks crisp, can't wait to see him fight again after the Antonio Silva performance. I do wish Fedor would fight more often but what people don't understand is Fedor is a guy who likes to have all his shit covered before a fight so he's in both physical & mental shape. How else do you think he wins all the time? The guy is a smart fighter man. Yeah unfortunately that means we don't get to see him fight very often but when we do it's like Christmas come early.

[tgamirov]

Better competition? Rogers would destroy 75% of UFC.

[timmyscano]

you are a retard

[inoki21]

@tgamirov lol

[peacenlove4every1]

The zuffa paid trolls are out in force patrolling this youtube video. I bet randy made a nice sum of bonus money, as well, for talking trash about Fedor.

[useyouforfood]

1:26

[Cha0sStriker]

Lol at Randy

I would lay all my money on the line that Brett would beat Randy.

There is just NO WAY I can see Randy beating Brett

[shifty2283]

you mean at this point in his career right?

[mysteriowc]

I hope this thread doesn't like to become like Sherdog who bans people for having a negative opinion on Fedor.

[olafromoslo]

Werdum's skills far exceeds his hype.

Stopped Gonzaga (twice), Brandon Vera, Aleks Emelianenko, Overeem.

Only stopped once himself.

[dezra633]

LOL @ the fedor sack riding in these comments.

[MocniZgb]

Randy who ??? Fedor is like God he beats all the best fighters so stop talking shit !!!!!

[DeezNutzOnUrFace]

best fighters??? are u watching 10 year old tapes?

[jonnykenziecross]

What the fuck is Randy talking about??? Fedor last 3 fights were against Tim Sylvia who was ranked 4th at that time. Arlovski was ranked 2nd when they fought. Brett Rogers is ranked 6th right now. I would say Sylvia, Arlovski, and Rogers are tougher fights then Werdum, although Werdum is a tough fight. Who has Randy fought his last 3 fights. Wins over unranked Vera and Coleman and got smoked by Nog. Randy use to be so humble and respectful of Fedor, but now just appears jealous.

[DeezNutzOnUrFace]

what is jonnykeziecross talking about??? tim sylvia is no way ranked 4th when they fought. i dont think he was ranked 4th in the room. no way was arlovski at 2. i like arlovski but he hasnt fought anyone good and won in years. and dont get me started on rogers. everyone including randy are seeing fedor fight "past their due date" ufc fighters or up n comin fighters without a great fight history. werdum is a good fight cos of his style. styles make fights and his style is def a good match up

[interista7878]

You're stupid if you don't think Tim and Andrei would give Brock a run for his money. Tim friggin clobbered Mir before getting caught ffs.

[shifty2283]

um yeah Im not hating but I dont agree with you. If rodgers can beat andrei that quick and mercer can beat Tim I just dont see Brock having a problem.

[interista7878]

Cause Brock has beaten tons of people?

Tim had never been knocked out before Ray and much like Brock he was caught by Mir after smashing his face to the ground in seconds. He didn't even notice the broken arm and wanted to continue. More sloppy than anything else.

Brock hasn't beaten anyone. A 100 year old LHW Randy with a 18-10 record? A 13-4 Mir with notable wins against Wes Sims and losses against Vera, Marcio Cruz and Ian Freeman?

Compare record vs record instead of hype vs hype.

[interista7878]

Brett Rogers is a beast btw. He would eat Brock and most of the UFC elite alive.

[kallebaah0]

are you a fucking ass? sheck the old sherdog rankings and you'll see that AA was ranked #2 and Sylvia was in the top 5 when he fought Fedor.

[TheSupercack]

randys not jealous, fedor needs to be in an organization where all the weight classes are stacked. tim sylvia is a has been, you can argue that he was on a downward slope at the time, and arlovski has a glass chin. Brett Rogers is a noob who hasnt really fought anybody yet.

[jonnykenziecross]

@TheSupercack Tim Sylvia was on a downward slope??? He was destroying Nog before he got submitted and before that he beat Vera. Brett Rogers has the exact same record as Shane Carwin. They were both 10-0 and beat one good fighter. Carwin has only beat Gonzaga and Rogers beat Arlovski. Before Fedor fought Arlovski he won 5 in a row and 3 of those were in the UFC and won 4 of those by KO. Ya if Fedor or Rogers hits your chin you are going to sleep.

[snakerattle79]

Fedor destroys grapplers in their own game, Werdum will be no different

[interista7878]

Sad to see Randy doing the UFC switcharoo. I remember him playing an entirely different tune back when he was about to jump ship.

Seems his preformance in the ring has suffered from the lashing as wel.

[jsg103]

I'm kind of over the Fedor thing. I'll watch him fight when I have time, like any other mma fight but I don't expect him to be in the ufc and don't even care anymore. I feel like their business plan is now to get past prime top ten guys that really shouldn't even be ranked anymore, but make sure to fight them before they drop out of the top ten. AA never did shit to earn a #3 spot and barnett didn't do shit to keep his #2 spot he had, didn't fight anyone ranked for like 4 years.

[interista7878]

Oh. So you're a bit of a redneck cunt then?

Good to know.

[jsg103]

I think you misunderstood what I wrote or replied to the wrong person. I never mentioned anything about being a redneck or anything that would be associated with being redneck nor a cunt. Thanks.