UFC 109 Results: Randy Couture Applies Stranglehold on Mark Coleman
by Kid Nate on Feb 7, 2010 12:32 AM EST
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Randy "The Natural Couture came out to Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold" to win the entrance music battle. In the actual fight it didn't take much more than a round for Couture to apply a "stranglehold" of his own.
When the biggest question going into a fight is whether or not the loser will retire, you know you're not seeing a world championship fight.
But ostensibly this senior league slug fest was a number #1 contender's match in the UFC's packed light heavyweight division.
Couture came out swinging hard and landing. Coleman eventually landed a couple of shots when Couture came in swinging. Then with three minutes left, Couture began to really punish and batter Coleman. Couture used his patented dirty boxing to control and work Coleman on the feet.
Coleman's trainer, and Couture's former business partner, Shawn Tompkins told Coleman to "be a champion about this" between rounds. Then Couture put Coleman on his back, established mount and battered Coleman. Coleman gave up his back and then Couture got the choke.
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Scratch that. Coleman-Tito will be made sometime soon. Dana won’t resist another crazy payday.
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Randy did not win sub of the night
The rightful owner of that money has been rewarded…
Thiago!
You're killing me man.
I can’t watch it live and I can’t go, it’s such torture..
Be like water..
by theredoctober on Feb 7, 2010 6:09 AM EST up reply actions
My problem with that is that I’m hoping for Rogerio/Shogun II, whether Shogun wins or loses. I’d rather see Randy fight Franklin or Rampage, if Rashad can beat him.
by Kwisatz Haderach on Feb 7, 2010 3:13 AM EST up reply actions
Coleman looked HORRIBLE
it almost looked like a crime was happening in that octagon , hope the hammer finally retires (which he wont ) . the man has had a long career and fought the best guys in the world he should gracefully walk away and become a greeter at the front of kmart
so then Dad goes and turns the knife on her .. then he turns to me and sez ........................................... Why so Serious ??
eh
He was good a long time ago and that’s it. He never learned or grew with the sport.
But yes, he should retire.
That was hard to watch
Reminded me of Holmes vs Ali and Marciano vs Louis. Except the victor was a year older than the washed up loser!
Um, remind me again how he beat Bonnar?
Well…he came out looking to shoot which still would have been his best strategy against Couture. I knew it was over within 10 seconds when Coleman was standing straight and looking to box rather than shoot.
Coleman is still so strong and good on his shot that I think he could have gotten an early takedown against Randy. But instead he just plodded forward looking for a big punch.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Feb 7, 2010 10:19 AM EST up reply actions
Ya, that was strange
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen Coleman apply that strategy before. Usually, once he gets hurt by something, he starts shooting. Really strange…
Coleman VS Tito will be interesting, although I have a sinking feeling that they’d both try to stand, which wouldn’t be very stellar.
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