Sunday, January 08, 2006

Ultimate Randy Couture

This video is about an hour long and picks up with Randy's last fight as a heavyweight, his broken eyesocket bone and coming back to fight Chuck Liddell.

Randy talks about his thoughts on his punching display in the fight against the Iceman and his head-faking the takedowns. Great input from Randy but I saw this fight before, I have it on tape to watch the whole thing if I want to, I don't need to see so much of it again. The first third of this show is about this fight.

At about 16 minute mark the show picks up. Enter Tito and the training footage and hype talk starts. That lasts maybe two minutes and we watch recaps for the rest of the twenty-five minutes given to this fight and Randy's comment on the spanking wasn't worth the wait.

On to Vitor Belfort twice. Not as an exciting opening to the segment as the last but just a replay of stock footage used in the PPV ads. Eventually works its way back to the second fight and Randy's insights. Unfortunately there was even less of Randy and more replay of an old fight in this segment. I almost hit fast forward. I saw this before and Randy's comments were about the colour of his shorts not the fight.

I consider Randy Couture an ideal person to use the term Ultimate Fighter, this program just did not live up to him. My verdict is unless it shows up in WalMart's discount bin don't spend money on this. If you can borrow it like I did from a chump friend who buys all PPVs, it can't hurt to watch.

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