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30/07/10 - Randy Couture would "almost certainly" accept CroCop fight
Randy Couture would almost certainly take a fight with Mirko ‘CroCop’ Filipovic if the UFC wanted to put it together, Fighters Only was told today. In a recent interview with Fighters Only, Filipovic said that a fight with Randy Couture is “interesting to him”. (He also name checked Gabriel Gonzaga and Rodrigo Nogueira).
Those comments were relayed to the Xtreme Couture headquarters where a source very close to the veteran fighter said that he would be very likely to accept a fight with CroCop should it be offered to him.
“I can almost guarantee that he would gladly take that fight. I know it’s one that he was all for two years ago. I think he’d rather fight a contender at 205 but that he’d never shy away from a high profile fight like that,” the source told us.
Of course, that depends of Filipovic re-signing with the UFC. He is currently out of contract with the organisation and in the recent interview with Fighters Only he spoke of needing “motivation” to get him back into the Octagon and stave off retirement.
Since being named in the interview, Nogueira has said he would like a second match with CroCop and with Couture seemingly certain to accept as well, the way is looking open for the UFC to entice the Croatian legend back into the cage.
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