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Filed under: StrikeforceThis is the Strikeforce live blog for Ryan Couture vs. Lucas Stark, a lightweight bout on tonight’s Strikeforce Challengers 10 card from the Dodge Theater in Phoenix, Ariz.
Couture and Stark are both making their professional M…
Filed under: Strikeforce
This is the Strikeforce live blog for Ryan Couture vs. Lucas Stark, a lightweight bout on tonight’s Strikeforce Challengers 10 card from the Dodge Theater in Phoenix, Ariz.
Couture and Stark are both making their professional MMA debuts.
The live blog is below.
In his long mixed martial arts career, Randy Couture has never finished a fight with a triangle choke. But his son, Ryan Couture, used a triangle to win his professional MMA debut on Friday night, submitting Lucas Stark at the Strikeforce Challengers s…
In his long mixed martial arts career, Randy Couture has never finished a fight with a triangle choke. But his son, Ryan Couture, used a triangle to win his professional MMA debut on Friday night, submitting Lucas Stark at the Strikeforce Challengers show in Arizona.
“That’s my favorite, for sure,” Couture said of the triangle, noting that his father doesn’t use the move because “he doesn’t spend much time on his back.”
Filed under: Strikeforce, FanHouse ExclusiveRyan Couture was about 14 years old when he heard his father Randy was going to compete in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. It was the spring of 1997, Ryan was a ninth-grader, and the sport — then more co…
Filed under: Strikeforce, FanHouse Exclusive
Ryan Couture was about 14 years old when he heard his father Randy was going to compete in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. It was the spring of 1997, Ryan was a ninth-grader, and the sport — then more commonly referred to as “No Holds Barred” or NHB — was still in its wild west infancy.
“It definitely took some getting used to when I saw the videos of him fighting and hitting people,” he told MMA Fighting. “That was kind of freaky for me at first, but I got over it pretty quick. The more I learned about the sport, the more I grew to love it.”
It would take years, but Ryan would eventually find his own path towards the sport, and on Aug. 13, he’ll become the first son to follow a high-profile father into major MMA when he makes his pro debut on the Strikeforce Challengers 10 show.
Mixed martial arts is a young man’s game, and a young game itself, and because of the combination, we’ve yet to see many legacies passed along from father to son. Other sports have seen countless generations roam their fields and playing surfaces. Baseball had the Bondses and Griffeys, football had the Mannings and Winslows, baseball had the Bryants and Waltons, hockey had the Hulls and Howes.