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lol @ got title shot against Vitor coming off a loss....
Was anyone gifted more title shots than Randy Couture?
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did u see why he got an immediate title shot vs vitor lol and the outcome
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He thought the UFC would sign him. When that didnt happen,he tried to breach his contract. Looking back its kinda strange to think that he thought UFC would just let him do that.
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Aldo had been the FW champion for six years. He deserved that shot at 145. As for BW, a lot of people thought he beat Marlon. Yeah, Aljo deserved it though.
I get maybe for the vitor eye poke he deserved the rematch but why did he deserve the other title shots? curious?
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Didn't Gus get 2?
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I love when people throw the "entertainment" part into it for emphasis, just to let you know they are not entertained by the sport itself
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Matt Hughes
Murillo Bustamante
And since you include the Vitor fight:
Anderson Silva
Andrei Arlovski
BJ Penn
Edgar
Barao
Ronda...
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I dunno... Faber lost a lot of title fights, but he also destroyed every opponent in between title shots to earn his way back up. It's been a while, but I don't recall thinking that Uriah stepped over other more worthy guys when he got his chances, but I'm biased for him too
Totally agree that he should have respect as a former Champion.
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Couture was already a multiple time champion at this point in his career. He lost to Josh Barnett who promptly tested positive and the title was vacated. Did Randy deserve to get his belt back? He faced Ricco Rodriguez for the belt and despite giving up huge size he was controlling the fight and was winning before he got his orbital broken by an elbow with just minutes to go in the 5th round. Everyone assumes Couture is now done with MMA.
Meanwhile while all this is going on, Tito was the LHW Champ and wanted to face off with Ken Shamrock. They set it up and it's a massive success for the UFC. The same event sees rising star Chuck Liddell catch a perfect head kick KO and is clearly the next in line. Too bad Tito is a pussy and refuses to fight him. UFC creates an interim title and selects Randy Couture as the guy to face off with Liddell, Randy of course scores the massive upset and goes on to literally spank Tito after.
After spanking Tito, Randy defended the belt in a rematch with Vitor Belfort. Doctors stopped the fight in only 49 seconds after a small cut opened inside his eye as Couture was entering to clinch. This fight was the immediate rematch, and Randy once again defeated Belfort and regained the belt.
Couture had just lost to Chuck at UFC 52. The rubbermatch had potential to be the biggest fight in the UFC history. So while Chuck defended against the man who beat him before (Horn), Randy faced off with Van Arsdale. Who is Mike Van Arsdale? He was a Div 1 Wrestling Champion. He was a 2 time olympic alternate and was on the National freestyle team 6 times. Started his career by winning a no rules Value Tudo championship tournament and was on a 4 fight win streak coming into this bout with Randy.
Put some respect on it you fucking casual.
Tim Sylvia was on a tear. He won the belt back and finished off the trilogy with Arlovski and defended against Jeff Monson. This was early 2007 and Pride Heavyweights were above and beyond what the UFC had to offer. Couture had retired after losing the rubbermatch with Chuck. I don't think we need to talk about what a massive success this fight was and how revered it is in history.
WAR THE NATURAL
WAR CAPTIAN AMERICA
WAR TOLL ROAD
WAR NOT BAD FOR AN OLD MAN
WAR AVERAGE DICK DAD BODS
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Only person that's comparable is Holly Holm. She does just enough to remain relevant and keeps getting big fights
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Nope. You want sport? Watch the Olympics. This is sports entertainment. The two are not mutually exclusive and shows your little boy brain if you view it that way. Primitive monkey brain amused by lies of fairness
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You're the one who can't enjoy competition without someone jingling plastic keys in front of your face and flashing lights and you're calling people primitive brained? Holy shit, the irony.
Also, my post specifically didn't call them exclusive, just the opposite in fact. So once you get to atound the mental age of object permanence, come back and try reading it again
