Daniel Cormier vs prime Randy Couture

[Sgt Smith]

Randy was one tough fighter, but DC would handle him. There's no need to belittle the earlier generation of fighters as some choose to do. Randy was a great champ.

 

[Fallout King]

Randy will make him cry at any weight. I can totally picture they clinch and Randy working dirty boxing and then all of a sudden, picks DC up and slams him like a child on the mat. Classic Randy Couture right there.

Another classic example of objective analysis from edirp.
/sarcasm

Edirp only supports certain fighters over others regardless of facts or history.

Edit: my god you're stupid why would you like this post?

 

[HUNTERMANIA]

Glass chin? Freakin kids. And, he beat a lot of other people.

Seriously, maybe his chin softened when he was 45, but come on, guy took massive HW shots and some of Chuck's best shots in their first fight and didn't crumble. Obviously their 2nd and 3rd fight went differently, but chins do age and Chuck is one of the hardest hitters ever.

I wouldn't doubt Randy's ability to compete with DC at all.

 

[bd5919]

DC wins the bear hug competition.

 

[Mixfight]

Randy would get bludgeoned.

Couture cant punch with DC and cant wrestle with DC.

 

[danny23]

DC wins,and I'm a Randy fan.
Two from very different eras though,not much of a comparison.

 

[Son of Werdum]

DC by humiliating Hendo-style ragdolling.

No way Randy is strong enough to move a fucking fire hydrant like Cormier.

 

[Cake4Breakfast]

Seriously, maybe his chin softened when he was 45, but come on, guy took massive HW shots and some of Chuck's best shots in their first fight and didn't crumble. Obviously their 2nd and 3rd fight went differently, but chins do age and Chuck is one of the hardest hitters ever.

I wouldn't doubt Randy's ability to compete with DC at all.

yeah, it would be hard to pick against DC, but Randy wouldn't get blown out of the water or anything. People cite the Hendo fight, but Randy and Hendo are very different wrestlers and fighters.

 

[Steve-French]

Randy could make a fight out of it, but he would lose. He was able to hang with pre-surgury Lesnar for close to two rounds.

 

[LEWIS540]

Randy>Vitor>Bisping>Hamill>Jones>Cormier


That's science.

 

[HUNTERMANIA]

Randy could make a fight out of it, but he would lose. He was able to hang with pre-surgury Lesnar for close to two rounds.

He was more than hanging with him, he was winning and controlling the grappling exchanges. Lesnar just caught him with a bomb. Randy said after the fight "It's better to be lucky than good sometimes." And I think that's very true for that fight.

People are discounting Randy way too much. I don't think it's anything near a certainty that DC would beat him, and he definitely wouldn't 'handle' him.

 

[therulerfromsubfighter]

This sport is evolving too fast to compare different era fighters, plain and simple.

 

[VinceArch]

Randy could turn it into a fight. Sure, the smart money would be to bet on DC and I would pick him to win, but Randy has proven time and time again he can compete and in his prime against DC... He'd make it a fight.

 

[pudgelarson36]

The Randy that beat Gabe would have the best shot. He was 229lbs, great boxing, great wrestling and great cardio. That was his best performance ever IMO. DC would still be the favorite of course.

 

[Jermei]

Replace Hendo with Couture, same result:

 

[Cake4Breakfast]

Replace Hendo with Couture, same result:

Seriously, you think that? Randy was a much better MMA wrestler than Hendo was, and that was far from Hendo in his prime, and the thread is about Randy in his prime. I could post a gif of Randleman slamming Fedor too, but Randleman didn't do that to Randy.

 

[Kick Strickland]

Edit: my god you're stupid why would you like this post?

^ that made me lol

Seriously, maybe his chin softened when he was 45, but come on, guy took massive HW shots and some of Chuck's best shots in their first fight and didn't crumble. Obviously their 2nd and 3rd fight went differently, but chins do age and Chuck is one of the hardest hitters ever.

And don't forget Gonzaga broke Randy's fucking arm with a high kick (one that drilled CC) and Randy still fucked GG up terribly. Picked his big ass up and slammed him so hard he broke his own nose with his knee. Randy was a gorilla. People tend to forget.

He was able to hang with pre-surgury Lesnar for close to two rounds.

As somebody else already said, Randy was starting to fuck Lesnar up. He just got caught by a lunchbox fist. And keep in mind Randy at that point was WAY past his prime.

This sport is evolving too fast to compare different era fighters, plain and simple.

I don't think that's true at all. It's evolving. But not as fast by leaps and bounds as it did in the first 10 years. Fighters of the Randy/chuck/Fedor/CC/BJ era in their primes would still fuck some current top dudes up. The evolution is still happening but it's slowed down a bit. imo.

 

[Kick Strickland]

Replace Hendo with Couture, same result:

1. that was old Hendo
2. that is not prime Randy Couture

 

[VinceArch]

Replace Hendo with Couture, same result:

Eh... I'm not too sure. To underestimate Randy when it seemed like he was going to lose without a doubt, he would either win or last longer than expected.

 

[BoxingFan653]

Damn no respect for the legend...Randy all day