Randy Couture Quits the UFC!
Could this be the biggest news in MMA history? It’s at least the biggest MMA news of the year. The Fight Network reported today that Randy “The Natural” Couture is walking away from the UFC, immediately. Not only with the champ leave the UFC as a fighter, the giant MMA org will also lose Couture as an announcer. This terrible news for fans of “Captain America.”
“I appreciate this opportunity the sport of MMA and the UFC has given me,” the UFC Hall-of-Famer said. “However, I’m tired of swimming upstream at this stage with the management of the UFC. It only makes sense at this point in my career to fight Fedor Emelianenko, and since he’s now signed with another organization, I feel like it’s time to resign and focus on my other endeavors.”
“Randy’s contract was on a fight-by-fight basis, and that’s the way he said he was always going to take it – fight by fight,” said Matt Walker, Couture’s agent at The Gersh Agency. “His acting career is accelerating at an astronomical rate, and without the support he felt some of his peers were receiving in the fight business, this was the logical choice.”
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October 11th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
The guy is 44 year’s old. Big credit for competing at that age, but it’s time to move on. Shame to lose him as a commentator though. He should have been able to cash with on that with experience.