Did it make sense to pit Toney vs Couture in his first MMA match?

toney got excatly what he asked for. boxers just don't get the fact that punching power does you no good when you're flat on your back geeting chocked out.

 

White was only ever going to keep him for one fight.

He knew Toney was going to get his ass handed to him. Basically this fight was to give boxing a kick in the teeth, and promote MMA over it.

White paid him 700k-1M I heard, which is probably up there with the highest in UFC history. Seems absurd he would pay someone with no MMA experience that much, especially after all the crap he gave Strikeforce for siging Herchel Walker.

Now with a global audience having seen one of boxing's most decorated fighters get embarrassed by a UFC fighter in a minute and a half it paid off and it's certainly worth more than the money he paid Toney.

Even if that fat tub of lard has been far removed from an elite boxer for quite some time now, the UFC promoted this as one of boxing's best vs one of the UFCs best and as far as casual fans go that's what they saw.

 

I think Dana had more to do with the choice of opponent, than Toney calling them out. White could have put Toney in their with a Rampage or Chuck Liddell which no doubt would have been better fights. But he wanted someone to make a statement and to give Toney as little a hope as possible. I believe Dana called Couture, not the other way round which Couture and White have gone out of their way to point out was the case in the lead up.

 

why match toney with a mma fighter with only a few fights when toney is a 11 time world boxing champion. They both had there strengths, toneys strength was his stand up and coutures is his wrestling. That is a even match up to me. If you think he should be matched up against another boxer in a mma fight, then he should just stick to boxing.
It just proved mma is the superior sport, if they cant out strike you , they can take you down and choke you out.

 

Dana should have put Toney in with Spider Silva , as it would have been a good fight. Silva wanted to fight Jones , and he would have stood with Toney . Would have been much better.
The Chicken **** Couture knowing all well his wrestling skills thats what he could do , and did not even make the fight interesting.

That fight pissed me off so much. Not sure if its Toney Coulture or Dana that I feel is the **** head. The fight just sucked.

 

So you think Randy should have went easy on James and be incredibly stupid by engaging a pro-boxer in a stand-up match? It doesn't make sense to me.

 

Toney was offered Kimbo Slice but declined he wanted Brock Lesnar but Dana declined and they settled for Couture. I'm sure you guys know James and he wants the best...heheh and now he'll go back to boxing and call out the Klitschko's.

 

If by "fear" (regarding his stand-up), you mean cautious, then yes.

IMHO, Randy did the right thing. Once the match starts, be professional and do what you're to do. There's no point in senseless showboating by fighting a pro boxer in a stand-up match. He will look ridicoloulsly stupid if he did that and end up getting KTFO'd.

You also have to consider/respect his corner's feelings. What do you think they would feel if after months of training on the execution of a takedown, he just decided to abandon game plan and just do what he wants.

 

This fight was bs. I was saying the same thing. Why would you fight against one of the best wrestlers ever in UFC for your first fight. There was no way to win, if you want to try MMA and have a chance at least fight someone whos gonna stand up with you.

Whole thing was a joke and everyone was right, dont fight the guy in his game and expect to win... it would have been the same joke as if Randy tried fight in a boxing match with Toney.

 

kimbo slice is a bum, couture was proving a point by showing how quickly he could put away a boxer.