Guys, Couture came in to the fight in the best shape of his entire life. He went through all of his training as per usual, and he just nicked Lidell with a couple of nearly landed home run punches that might have put him down had they landed flush. Do you think he pre-arranged to have Chuck slam his thumb in his ocular bone too?

This is just a ridiculous theory.

Neither of these guys would throw a fight, if you knew anything about either of them you'd know that. They are two of the most fierce competitors to lace them up. Neither of them have ever given ANY indication that they would do anything like that at any point in their careers. It's assinine to think that a champion at the top of his sport would throw a fight just to get a rubber match (and by the way, if a guy was going to do something that lowlife, he sure wouldn't agree to being KO'd in the first couple of minutes of the fight, because that makes it look more like Couture is finally over the hill, than that we need to see them go at it again. Be realistic.)

I'd like any one of you to name 3 examples of fighters in ANY fighting sport that have thrown a second fight just so they could set up a third. Any fighting sport. Actually, make that 2 examples. You make it sound like it's a rampant practice, and it's not.

If you want to set up a third match, you have to make the second match competitive. Saturdays fight was not competitive at all.

The final point is that Couture was cleanly ktfo. His head bounced off the mat 3 times. He was out from a flush right hand that he couldn't see (due to the eye gouge) and got nailed with all of Chuck's weight behind it. Then Lidell pounded him flush on the chin twice while on the ground after he was out. Yeah, I'm sure Couture said "Just knock the shit out of me Chuck. Lets do it really early on too, so that fans are dying to see us in the ring again"

The whole idea is just ignorant.



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