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Last-minute media blitz heat-up for Randy Couture vs. Brock Lesnar at UFC 91
By Zach Arnold | November 15, 2008
The Long Beach Press-Telegram: Defying Father Time
“(Age) isn’t important. What’s important is getting in the gym, training, learning these skills, refining the tactics and technique that I’ve developed over the last 12 years and going in tonight and showcasing those you know can help you have a good performance,” said the 6-foot-1, 225-pound Couture. “I focus on those things because those are things that I can control. The rest of that stuff is out of my control, and so I don’t spend any time worrying about it.”
The Washington Times: A spectacle that’s a sweeter science
MMA is a phenomenon that a generation of sportswriters either don’t understand or don’t care to. That’s too bad because when it is right, MMA is a remarkable sporting spectacle that features world-class athletes – as it does in Saturday night’s match between two of the best amateur wrestlers of their eras.
The New York Times: Past and future in championship fight
“A higher caliber athlete is coming,” said Marc Laimon, the coach of Team Takedown, a management company that recruits top wrestlers and tries to mold them into mixed martial artists and that is the owner of Cobra Kai Jiu-Jitsu in Las Vegas.
“The guys who fight in the U.F.C. to get chicks in the clubs, those guys are going to fade away.”
Ted Ehrhardt, one of Team Takedown’s founders, said he received 20 to 30 e-mail messages a week from fighters asking about management.
“I’m taking the very top wrestlers in the world,” he said.
Card Player Magazine: Full Tilt Poker becomes sponsor of Randy Couture
Mac Danzig: Randy’s going to win the fight
I think Randy wins this fight with experience and overall ability. It seems like Lesnar’s best chance of winning is if he can hold someone [down] for three rounds like he did to [Heath] Herring. I don’t think he can do that to Randy. Plus, he has a giant penis tattooed on his chest, which can’t be helpful.
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No more drive-by shootings of MMA by dismissive writers from the mainstream media? That’s progress!
Danzig’s comment is GOLD. If only for the fact that it was probably amazingly deadpanned. Cock Chestnar.
That’s my Napao!