1 Thing To Remember And Consider About Toney/Couture

[ThunderWolf]

I am going on record saying Dana White wants and intends for James Toney to WIN this fight tonight.

Are you saying that the UFC is corrupt?

[Ryn0]

Dana White would never and has NEVER matched a first timer against a champ. What are you talking about? Even Brock Lesnar didn't in his first few fights. I hate MMA and hate White even more but I have to back him up on this one point.

Technically in Lesnars UFC debut Mir was a former (and future) UFC HW champion and only lost his belt due to injury.

So thats not entirely true, also Frank Shamrock fought for thr UFC LHW title in his first UFC fight.

[etlux]

Are you saying that the UFC is corrupt?

1. 1st of all it's not corrupt if you INTEND someone to win by matching them with an inferior opponent. there's nothing inherently illegal in that because it's not news that Couture is almost 50 years old

2. on the other hand no one would be surprised if it WAS corrupt seeing as how its sister corporation elite XC or whatever it was called was shut down due to corruption last year when they found out that the guy that beat Kimbo was told to not use that much ground game deliberately to give Kimbo a chance and prop him up. Or something like that

[etlux]

Technically in Lesnars UFC debut Mir was a former (and future) UFC HW champion and only lost his belt due to injury.

So thats not entirely true, also Frank Shamrock fought for thr UFC LHW title in his first UFC fight.

who cares Couture is not only a "former" champ just like Mir but is far greater than Mir and will go down in MMA hall of fame way ahead of Mir so in that regard you're contradicting yourself because that means they are putting Toney in against a hall of famer ex-champ

[MrRolltide91]

1. 1st of all it's not corrupt if you INTEND someone to win by matching them with an inferior opponent. there's nothing inherently illegal in that because it's not news that Couture is almost 50 years old

2. on the other hand no one would be surprised if it WAS corrupt seeing as how its sister corporation elite XC or whatever it was called was shut down due to corruption last year when they found out that the guy that beat Kimbo was told to not use that much ground game deliberately to give Kimbo a chance and prop him up. Or something like that

word?........

[etlux]

Dana White wants Randy to win. To prove that a has been who's almost 50 years old can destroy a top boxer. Toney is not a top boxer anymore but that's how he is being hyped up to be at the moment.

Dana could've put him in there with a striker, but no he picked an outstanding grappler. You must be smoking some real good **** if you think Dana White wants Toney to win.

exactly perfect point. If Dana TRULY wanted Toney to win he would of put him in against a striker like Chuck Liddel. This would be a super easy fight for Toney. Toney would annihilate Liddel with a knockout in like 45 seconds of the first round.

But instead Dana put Toney in with one of the strongest pure grapplers/wrestlers/submission artists in MMA history Randy Couture.

[etlux]

word?........

just google it. try some of these

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/sports_blog/2008/10/elite-xc-exec-k.html

"Petruzelli not only won by knockout in 14 seconds, he provoked an investigation by boxing officials in Florida by telling a radio station that Elite XC promoters paid him extra to keep the fight in stand-up mode, which would play to Slice’s strength as a street fighter who had gained legions of fans in fights replayed on YouTube."

[DC Fight Fan]

1. 1st of all it's not corrupt if you INTEND someone to win by matching them with an inferior opponent. there's nothing inherently illegal in that because it's not news that Couture is almost 50 years old

2. on the other hand no one would be surprised if it WAS corrupt seeing as how its sister corporation elite XC or whatever it was called was shut down due to corruption last year when they found out that the guy that beat Kimbo was told to not use that much ground game deliberately to give Kimbo a chance and prop him up. Or something like that

Elite XC was no sister company of UFC. It was intended to be UFC's top comp. Get your facts straight.

[Prime 407]

White put Toney against Couture so that he'd have an excuse if Toney happens to beat him, he'd say he was old and it was a lucky shot, but good fight etc. However if he'd put Toney against one of their heavyweight champions and Toney scored the upset KO it would make UFC look like a joke.

[goldenglove2]

Dana White wants Randy to win. To prove that a has been who's almost 50 years old can destroy a top boxer. Toney is not a top boxer anymore but that's how he is being hyped up to be at the moment.

Dana could've put him in there with a striker, but no he picked an outstanding grappler. You must be smoking some real good **** if you think Dana White wants Toney to win.

Toney is a top heavyweight