Couture vs Belfort: Part III

**J-kid** · Posted On: 7/21/2004 8:57am

Originally posted by Strong Machine
Vitor, easily.Now we all know to respect Randys standup and to pace yourself cause TKOing randy is hard.The cat is out of the bag.
Vitor will hold back and win a long boring match, or randy will look to GnP and although he may get the takedown, Belfort has severaly underated ground.He was all over Ricco in the ADCC.
Randy has always been suceptible to subs.His only chance is to cut vitor as he is pinned to the fence.Vitor has a couple ways he could win.

heard bj penn subbed randy when he was training with team quest for his fight with matt hughs....

so i would suspect vitor could have the same possiblity....

There is 2 ways this fight will go..... Long ass fight (decision randy) or earlie knock out from vitor.

**Shuma-Gorath** · Posted On: 7/21/2004 9:00am

Whoever wins will never fight Vanderlei anyway :(

Hopefully Vitor loses and has to go to Pride and get booked for Darth Vanderlei's revenge fight.

**Student** · Posted On: 7/21/2004 9:24am

Originally posted by J-kid
There is 2 ways this fight will go..... Long ass fight (decision randy) or earlie knock out from vitor.

It's possible it could also go like their first fight where Randy won by TKO ;)

**chaosexmachina** · Posted On: 7/22/2004 4:34am

I'd like that. I love it when wrestlers win with strikes... Which is why I like to watch Rampage in K-1.

**DanDavis** · Posted On: 7/22/2004 8:38am

I think it'll be Randy this time. I actually picked Belfort the last time, but he didn't look that impressive. If it hadn't been for the cut, he probably would have lost. I'd LIKE to see Vitor pull out the "W" for the simple excuse of seeing Belfort-Liddell II with a 5-round limit. The first match was amazing, easily one of the Top 10 UFC matches of all time.

**Little Idea** · Posted On: 7/22/2004 11:53am

Belfort will get Pwned. . .

Randy by ass raping

**Shuma-Gorath** · Posted On: 7/22/2004 12:52pm

What a thorough analysis and insightful contibution.

My money's on Randy. Vitor may be a big hitter but we've already seen Randy out-box Chuck, and Vitor's wild charging punches won't be a surprise anymore. If he puts Randy against the cage and can pin him there with strikes then he can win the fight, but Randy's takedowns are just too good for the standup to last long if it starts to go south.

**Student** · Posted On: 7/22/2004 1:14pm

Originally posted by Shumagorath
What a thorough analysis and insightful contibution.

My money's on Randy. Vitor may be a big hitter but we've already seen Randy out-box Chuck, and Vitor's wild charging punches won't be a surprise anymore. If he puts Randy against the cage and can pin him there with strikes then he can win the fight, but Randy's takedowns are just too good for the standup to last long if it starts to go south.

With Randys Greco experience I can't imagine Vitor being able to pin him up against the cage. I think Vitor's only chance of winning is to bring it to the ground and wind up on top (again, I can't see this easily happening because of Randys Greco background). We'll see - it's going to be a great fight.

**Strong Machine** · Posted On: 7/22/2004 10:36pm

But if Vitor CAN get on top, it is over.Randy has had no success on bottom(Barnett, Ricco).And Vitor is as they say...a phenom.Obviously he is not the wrestler Randy is, but he's closer than you may realise.His takedown defense in the ADCC was stellar.And his offense wasn't so bad either.
I see Vitor beating silva if they fight again too.
Silva comes straight in with no head movement, his punches are more arcing than Belforts.Silva is willing to take shots to return them, he's been knocked to a knee on punches thrown by japanese scrubs.
He has too little brains and too much balls.He'll wade right into Vitors wheelhouse, just like last time.