{"id":3204,"date":"2014-08-18T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T12:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.submissionradio.com\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2015-08-02T03:20:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T17:20:11","slug":"randy-couture-open-to-fedor-at-metamoris-talks-game-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.submissionradio.com\/randy-couture-open-to-fedor-at-metamoris-talks-game-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Couture open to Fedor at Metamoris, talks game plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nR<\/span>andy “The Natural” Couture<\/strong> made his second appearance on Submission Radio to not only talk about his new show Gym Rescue, and the release of Expendables 3, but also “The Last Emperor” Fedor Emelianenko. Randy talks about how close he came to competing at Metamoris for his friend Chael Sonnen, and if he would face Fedor in a future Metamoris event.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe UFC Hall of Famer also breaks down what his game plan would have been, had he faced the dominant Russian. Couture also weighs in on Mark Bocek’s comments on PED’s in MMA, who hit him the hardest, who he hit the hardest, the exhibition fight between Tito Ortiz and Dana White, Floyd Mayweather vs Ronda Rousey, Scott Coker’s new Bellator contracts, the fight between Diaz and Silva, as well as Jones vs Cormier, and of course, that terrible triangle from Lethal Weapon 1.\n<\/p>\n

\nInterview highlights below<\/em>\n<\/p>\n

On how close Randy came to replacing Sonnen at Metamoris<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cWell I certainly considered it. Chael called me up, obviously Chael and I have been personal friends for a long, long time and he thought I might be a viable candidate to step up if he decided to opt out, because of the pressure and the commission in Nevada, but I had to be honest with him and that\u2019s a very high calibre match. I have a lot of respect for his opponent (Andre Galvao). To take that on a week’s notice, not having any time to prepare, wouldn\u2019t have been the wisest of decisions to do that. As well as having all the press junkets and the premier coming up last Monday anyway, there just would have been no way to really pull that off and be effective. So you know, I don\u2019t know, it just didn\u2019t make sense to me to do it as much as I liked to have helped.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On the potential of seeing Randy versus Fedor in a grappling match at an event such as Metamoris<\/strong>
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\n\u201cThat would be interesting and certainly given the time to prepare and get back up into good, solid grappling and wrestling shape, that would be a lot of fun and I think, you know. I\u2019m not sure how active Fedor is at this stage, you know him being retired as well, but I\u2019m certainly not opposed to an idea like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On how he would have approached the strengths of Fedor in their fight<\/strong>
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\n\u201cYou know I think given his judo background it would have been interesting to approach him the way I approached a lot of guys that were as powerful in striking as him. He would have been a challenge to kinda neutralize with my Greco Roman background and tie him up on the fence. Obviously I think it would make a difference if we were in a fence or a ring. A lot of his best fights were in a ring, they weren\u2019t in a cage. So I feel like my chances where certainly in the infighting and the clinch fighting to maybe make him work a little harder than a lot of guys did, but he always seemed to be very fit. I didn\u2019t see a weakness there and I think it\u2019s one of the reasons I always wanted to fight him, because it would have been a huge challenge.\u201d
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\n“Like a Lyoto Machida, he was such an odd, interesting style. He was very hard to train for him and figure out the solutions to the problems that he posed. I think Fedor would’ve been an interesting problem to solve as well.”<\/p>\n

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“I came out in the first fifteen seconds of that fight, hit him with a left hook that I don\u2019t he expect me to strike with him at all”<\/div><\/em>\n<\/p>\n