After Mark Coleman was forced to withdraw from a
co-main event fight with Tito Ortiz at UFC 106, the former UFC and
PRIDE champion thought he’d slid down to the first rung of the ladder.
Coleman assumed his next fight would be against a young
up-and-comer – maybe it would even be a preliminary fight. Maybe he’d
take that oh-so-happy label for veteran fighters: a gatekeeper.
That was not the case. Coleman was at dinner with his daughters when he got a text message from UFC matchmaker Joe
Silva. Did he want to fight Randy Couture at UFC
109?