David St. Martin of SBNation.com has a fine interview with Randy Couture up today. They talk about Randy's training for James Toney:
You seem to have shifted away from your roots in western boxing in favor of a more traditional muay thai style, which was pretty apparent in your fight with Big Nog. Have you gone back to boxing to prepare for your upcoming fight with James Toney?
I'm still doing both. I have a coach for each style and I think you need tools from both of them. You just need to be able to plug them in with the appropriate opponent. Boxing wise, for this fight it's more about the defense, the footwork, and the angles than it is about the exchanges and the combinations. I don't need to get into big fire-fights and try to box it out with James, that would be stupid. But I do need to know where he's coming from and what kind of combinations he's trying to throw, and the way he's going to move and set up his punches, where his jabs are coming from. So I've been working with my boxing coach to focus on those areas. He's teamed up with my thai coach because the boxing stance presents particular vulnerabilities, especially with kickboxing.
He also addresses James Toney's smack talk:
How do you feel about James Toney's comments hyping up the fight? He's really gone off the radar (sic) on some of the interviews he's done lately.
I've only heard stories. I haven't really watched or listened to any of it, and I don't intend to. It all boils down to fight night walking out there and doing what you've trained to do. That's all that really matters. The rest of it's just a bunch of crap.
Read the whole thing to see what Randy thinks of the Fedor loss and potential fights against Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida.