Randy on Werdum, Antonio, and Fedor

http://squabbles.com/2010/03/randy-couture-has-a-message-for-fedor-emelianenko/

Randy basically says Fedor needs to step up and fight tougher opponents (including Werdum)

Says the man who hasn't beat a top 10 guy since Timmy.

ohiovol62 wrote:

Says the man who hasn't beat a top 10 guy since Timmy.

Yeah but Randy never said he should be in the P4P convo or even said he was a top HW. He said Fedor needs to fight top competition to stay in the mx.

Why all the dismissal for AA? The guy was on a real good run against pretty good competion when he fought Fedor. Sylvia was coming off a sub loss to Nog in which he was clearly winning before the standing RNC if i remember correctly. It's weak to look back on these fights and dismiss them just because those guys have not done so hot since then. Fedor also was going to fight Barnett but through no fault of his own did not.

Anyways, why the interest from Randy in Fabricio? do they do any training together? Seemed kind of random he'd be talking about Werdum vs. Bigfoot. I'm glad to see he's not reading off a company script though. Maybe he really does think AA, Big Tim, and the Grim suck. Maybe he just forgot about Barnett.

Well I think Grim was a top 5 guy. AA was #2 at the time. Timmy was a top 5 guy as well. Randy should tell Mur to step it up too. Mur's a #3 guy and he's fighting Kongo. Brock was sick so we'll give him a pass. Carwin hasn't done anything. Only Cain and JDS have a beef IMO and that isn't much of a beef either. I think Fedor has done pretty good at fighting top fighters that are available. The Barnett thing feel through, wasn't Fedor's fault, he was #2 then too. I know rankings are subjective but we don't have a whole lot to go on. I think Randy is back to being a company man. I'd like to see him step in there with Grim.

Farmer1906 wrote:

ohiovol62 wrote:

Says the man who hasn't beat a top 10 guy since Timmy.

Yeah but Randy never said he should be in the P4P convo or even said he was a top HW. He said Fedor needs to fight top competition to stay in the mx.

Randy is positioning himself for another LHW title fight and everone knows it. He might not be saying anything but he is posturing.

Randy is right. You guys can't deny Randy knows what he is talking about.

ohiovol62 wrote:

Well I think Grim was a top 5 guy. AA was #2 at the time. Timmy was a top 5 guy as well. Randy should tell Mur to step it up too. Mur's a #3 guy and he's fighting Kongo. Brock was sick so we'll give him a pass. Carwin hasn't done anything. Only Cain and JDS have a beef IMO and that isn't much of a beef either. I think Fedor has done pretty good at fighting top fighters that are available. The Barnett thing feel through, wasn't Fedor's fault, he was #2 then too. I know rankings are subjective but we don't have a whole lot to go on. I think Randy is back to being a company man. I'd like to see him step in there with Grim.

I actually don't think he was being a company man...becuse he says he feels Werdum would qualify as somebody Fedor needs to face. Werdum is not a UFC guy. I just think he is looking at it with the "the guys he has beat are only as good as their last fight" logic when the fights were big matchups when they were made and Fedor defeating them in the fashion he did may be all the bit responsible for their recent slide.