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29/11/09 - Toughill slams Kim Couture - hard
Top female fighter Erin Toughill has blasted Kim Couture and disparaged both her skills and her account of how she got started in MMA. Toughill is the wife of Neil Melanson, who is the head grappling coach at the Xtreme Couture gym.
Writing on the MMA.tv message board recently, she slammed Kim for cashing in on her ex-husband’s name and said that she should be using her maiden name if she is serious about making a career in MMA on her own merits.
And she added, “Kim has gone on record numerous times saying she “built” the Couture name/brand & it was nothing b4 her. Kim was interviewed post “sparring” with Wand Silva saying, “Silva had to turn it UP, when I turned it up”. LOL believing that she was actually making Wand spar HARD. She has said “it’s really hard for Randy to pass my rubber guard” lol believing that her “guard” can keep the ICON away.
Toughill also mocked Kim Couture’s recent fight with kelly Vera (wife of Brandon Vera) under the Strikeforce banner, saying she looked like a complete novice.
“Kim had lunch with some ladies from the XC gym b4 her fight. She had some lip augmentation done. Girls asked how [would] it affect her fight? Kim said, “It would not. I don’t get hit in sparring OR when I fight. I have a ‘black style’ when it comes to boxing”. That is word for word and it blew me away LOL. Kim has “improved everywhere” and has taken 3 weeks off from training in a year…yet lookd like she has been training for 3 weeks, total,” she wrote.
“There are SO many women fighters that feel the same way…I just don’t have an issue saying it. She has no business fighting nor taking spotlight from women who deserve to fight & can’t seem to get a contract, like Roxy, Young, Tate…2 name a few.”
Toughill has a record of 10-2-1 and was due to fight on the Strikeforce: Fedor v Rogers card earlier this month, but withdrew from the event because of illness.
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