UFC Hall of Popularity fighter Randy Couture has already reach out of retirement in the past.
Famously, the UFC story ended his exodus from the sport to reach abet abet to defeat Tim Sylvia for the heavyweight title at the age of 43, a fight which added ‘The Pure’ to a truly short checklist of warring parties who had won titles in two separate UFC weight classes.
For the time being Couture, who is 58, says that his time as a fighter is smartly in the abet of him and has quite a bit of different irons in the fireplace, fair like a Hollywood career which has viewed him critical particular person in The Expendables action movie sequence alongside a who’s who of frail movie stars — but it is one such figure that Couture says he’ll be tempted to fight if the peril ever presented itself, and he says powerful of it stems from a dialog overheard by fans he had with analyst Jay Glazer at a UFC event quite a bit of years abet.
As Couture explained to MMA Junkie: “Jay, jokingly stated, ‘Hiya, we were factual talking about you. Who would you reach out of retirement to fight?’ “I stated, ‘Effectively, if Steven Seagal would signal the contract, I could well reach out to fight him.
“Obviously, I was once joking. Jay was once joking. However the opposite three journalists that were standing there took that significantly. They went to Seagal and stated, ‘Oh, Couture stated he’d reach out of retirement whenever you happen to’d fight him.’ He, obviously, had a truly challenging response to that.”
However whereas this began as a humorous story (and seemingly peaceable is), Couture says that he very powerful disapproves of Seagal — and specifically attributable to tales of how badly the frail ‘Beneath Siege’ critical particular person is stated to manage with stunt performers on tell.
“That ceaselessly is the man,” Couture added. “All people is aware of the rumours and all that stuff relating to stuntmen getting injured doing scenes and stuff with him, which does happen every now and then but is no longer the norm. It looked cherish he went out of his formula to internet it a level of striking reasonably of extra on these scenarios where it’s seemingly you’ll per chance possibly damage any individual to internet himself take a look at higher and declare he was once first rate.
“That’s where I got started. I got started in stunts. I was once fortunate ample to internet some real acting gigs. For the total stuntmen in the market, I will follow my weapons and voice Seagal would be that guy.”
