When the UFC offered Randy Couture an interim light heavyweight title shot in 2003, the writing was on the wall. Couture, already a two-time heavyweight champion by then, knew the UFC wasn’t happy about him beating the younger Pedro Rizzo twice in back-to-back fights to defend his title in 2001. “I don’t think they were too keen on having a 39, 40-year-old heavyweight champion,” Couture said in a recent episode of “Legend 2 Legend” with Burt Watson
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Randy Couture recalls being ‘fly in the ointment’ for UFC’s Chuck Liddell plans in 2003 – MMA Junkie