[OLD FART FIGHT] COUTURE VS. COLEMAN @ UFC 109

[chief108]

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Five-time UFC champion Randy Couture has verbally agreed to face former heavyweight champion Mark Coleman at UFC 109 in a light heavyweight bout.

Sherdog.com was the first to report the news Tuesday afternoon, and MMAWeekly.com subsequently confirmed it with sources close to the situation.

The bout is expected to be the the co-main draw of the Feb. 6 event, slated for the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

A main event between Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort could possibly headline the card, MMAWeekly.com sources said this week, though the fight has yet to be officially confirmed.

Couture, 46, is three days removed from a close decision victory over light heavyweight Brandon Vera at UFC 105 in Manchester, England. It was his first bout at 205 pounds since February 2006, when he lost a bid to regain the title against Chuck Liddell at UFC 57.

Coleman, 44, is coming off a knee injury that forced him to withdraw from a scheduled fight with Tito Ortiz at Saturday's UFC 106, opening the door for an Ortiz rematch with Forrest Griffin. The "Hammer House" original made his last Octagon appearance in July, defeating Stephan Bonnar by unanimous decision at UFC 100.

[chief108]

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Report: Randy Couture vs. Mark Coleman in the works for UFC 109 (http://mmajunkie.com/news/16888/report-randy-couture-vs-mark-coleman-in-the-works-for-ufc-109.mma)

by MMAjunkie.com Staff on Nov 17, 2009 at 9:50 pm ET
http://mmajunkie.com/dyn/images/fighters/mark-coleman-3.jpgA light heavyweight matchup between UFC Hall of Famers Randy Couture (17-10 MMA, 14-7 UFC) and Mark Coleman (16-9 MMA, 7-4 UFC) is in the works for UFC 109.

Sherdog.com was the first to report that the two former UFC heavyweight champions have verbally agreed to the contest.

If signed, the bout will take place on Feb. 6 in Las Vegas.

Coleman debuted for the UFC in 1997 and earned the UFC 10 tournament title with wins over Don Frye, Gary Goodridge and Moti Horenstein. "The Hammer" also holds significant career wins over Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, Allan Goes, Igor Vovchanchyn, Kazuyuki Fujita and Dan Severn.

The soon-to-be-44-year-old Coleman left the UFC in 1999, but he returned to the organization in 2009. The Ohio native dropped his first bout to Rua in January, though he earned a unanimous-decision win over "The Ultimate Fighter 1" finalist Stephan Bonnar at July's UFC 100 event.

Couture's career briefly overlapped Coleman's after "The Natural" debuted at UFC 13 in 1997. The pair was scheduled to meet at UFC 17 in 1998, but a Couture injury forced the cancellation of the bout.

While Couture fought six times outside of the UFC, "Captain America" has spent the majority of his career inside the octagon. Couture fought most recently at this past weekend's UFC 105 event in the U.K., and he earned a hotly contested unanimous decision win over Brandon Vera.

The contest is expected to take the co-feature slot on the UFC 109 card, though it could certainly take top billing if Anderson Silva's rehabilitation process prevents a planned contest with Vitor Belfort from taking place.

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[Bob de Rooij]

'UFC 109 - Resurrection'

[chief108]

Return of the Zombies...

[thefxr]

Totaal geen interesse.

[Vitor Belfort]

Toch een partij die ik wel graag wil zien en al diverse malen op lijstjes heb geplaatst van partijen die ik graag eens wou zien en waarvan ik hoop Coleman wint....jammer dat dit een LHW partij gaat worden..

[Dierenamerbulance]

ik heb er geen problemen me.. ik heb liever dat ze de opa's tegenover elkaar zetten als dat ze een of andere jonge gast optrommelen die ze helemaal de tering in slaat dat gun ik niemand.. en vooral dana niet

[Mephisto]

Old Farts Rule! Zou willen dat ik op deze manier oud kon worden...

Zo van: "Hé oldtimer! Uit de weg!" *Slam* * Ground 'n Pound* "tsst, wat had je nou?