Randy Couture reacted to his former opponent Brock Lesnar being gifted a title shot against Daniel Cormier.
Randy Couture spoke about the man who took his heavyweight title back in 2008, discussing how the UFC is gifting Brock Lesnar a title shot in 2018, despite coming off a failed drug test. The former two-division champion didn’t speak ill of Lesnar himself, but Couture obviously isn’t a fan of the way the UFC does business nowadays.
“Well, you know, they want to tout their USADA and all their strict rules for drug testing, but somehow this guy managed to get through and still managed to fail a test but still compete,” Couture told Submission Radio. “Which begs the question, what’s going on?
“Obviously, the rankings and all of that stuff, they manipulate that however they want anyway. Whatever makes business sense to them is all that really matters. They don’t care about the fighters. They don’t care about those rankings.
“You know, lots of guys have jumped queue. It’s certainly not based on merit. So, that’s nothing new. I’m not surprised.” he continued. “He’s a huge draw. I mean, at the end of the day that’s the business of it. It’s about selling pay-per-views. Certainly, DC is the champ and rightly so, they’re gonna put him in there with a guy like DC and that’s gonna draw huge pay-per-view numbers. So, that’s what it boils down to for them.”
Couture has also been a huge proponent in trying to expand boxing’s Ali Act to MMA.