Couture open to return to 205 pounds by John Morgan on Dec 28, 2008 at 11:00 am ET This content is protected Former UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture (16-9 MMA, 13-6 UFC) admitted he would be open to bouts at light-heavyweight if the matchup proved interesting. Couture made the declaration on Friday at a special Q&A session set up for UFC Fight Club members. While Couture had been recently linked to a potential fourth bout with Chuck Liddell when the UFC makes its German debut in June, "The Natural" said that fight was not currently in the works. "That was rumors," Couture said. "I asked Dana myself, 'What's all this crap about Germany and Chuck Liddell?' "That's the Underground, dude. It's just rumors." While Couture would later put an additional obstacle in the way of a potential June bout with Liddell when he confirmed his commitment to a movie project, the 45-year-old did say he would be open to bouts at 205 pounds. "I could do [cut to 205 pounds]," Couture said. "I'm walking around at 225 (pounds), the same place I was when I went down to light-heavyweight before. So it's a possibility if an interesting fight came up there, and it made sense." Either leave the UFC and fight Fedor.. Not that it has much interest anymore. Or fight Big Nog and call it a day.
He should stay away from 205. Why anyone would want to join that division is mind boggling. Once you get mixed up in there you have animals like Rampage, Machida, A Silva now, Evans, Shogun, Forrest.....the division is just way too deep. The cut may really hurt Couture at this age too.
Yeah you know when he came back to Heavy he said his body felt refreshed not having to cut weight. Him doing it 3 years after his last fight at that weight actually probablly more then 3 years will not be good for a damn near 46 year old man. He can fight still and id be glad to see another fight from him but under decent circumstances not cutting weight hes to old for that **** IMO unless he had like a catchweight fight with a big name at like 210 or something.
