Can Randy Couture Overpower Mirko Cro Cop?
Randy Couture is the present UFC Heavyweight Champion, courtesy of a sound beating that he gave Tim “The Maine-iac” Sylvia on March 3rd, 2007. The fight went the full 5 rounds, but Randy Couture dominated the action from the first punch, right up until the final take down. In fact, the first punch thrown put Tim Sylvia on the canvas, something that very few people thought that Randy Couture would be able to do.
Conventional wisdom was that Tim Sylvia was too big, strong, young and too good a striker for forty three year old Randy Couture to overcome; Randy Couture has made a career out of defying conventional wisdom.
The next question that every Mixed Martial Arts fan is asking is; “Can Randy Couture find a way to defeat Mirko Cro Cop?”. It’s a simple question, but there is no simple answer. To figure out this riddle, we must go through each fighter’s history, looking at various skills of their past opponents and how they performed against these opponents. Of course, once we’re done with the analysis, we need to apply “The Couture Factor”. The Couture Factor is just stated as:
“Never, ever count Randy Couture out”
This should be written in stone and kept in the UFC vaults to be placed ring side for each and every Randy Couture fight.
First, let’s categorize our two warriors. First off, I think it’s pretty fair to call Mirko Cro Cop a striker. He is probably the best striker in MMA today. It’s also easy to Categorize Randy Couture, he is a wrestler, sure he knows submissions and is a decent striker, but when it comes right down to it, Randy likes to get you in the clinch, take you down and ground and pound his way to victory.
So, to answer my own question, can Randy Couture defeat Mirko Cro Cop, of course he can. This is MMA and on any given night one talented fighter has a chance against another. The better question is; will Randy Couture Defeat Mirko Cro Cop? To answer that, we will need to wait until fight night.
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