There are many fighters who get billed as being more skilled than Randy Couture, many who people believe would hand him his ass if they ever stepped in a cage or a ring, but there are few fighters that stir conversation the way that Randy does.
It's been an issue of alot of speculation, since no one seems to offer substantial information on what is actually happening, but Randy's contract with the UFC is, supposedly, terminated.This makes for teh interesting possibility of a matchup between the 43 year old, 5 time UFC champion and former Pride Heavyweight champion and #1 ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko.
Emelianenko and Couture have both sounded excited in recent interviews, as the prospect of a matchup between the UFC hall-of-famer (the only man in the hall who's really at the top of his game) and the greatest heavyweight of this generation.
Many critics dispute Emelianenko's #1 ranking and say that he doesn't fight enough, and he needs more top tier opponents in M-1, and there's little doubt that a win over Couture would shut them up for at least a little while.
Still, the UFC has yet to take down the listing of Couture as their heavyweight champion, and if you go to the UFC website and click the title holders link, Couture's the first man you will see. Whether this is just a failure to update the website or the UFC's way of saying that they still believe Couture is under a contractual obligation, I'm not sure, and I don't think anyone other than Dana White and the rest of the brass really has much of an idea.
That said, I think that we need some information, because it is unfair that the UFC should insist on keeping one of the worlds top heavyweights in perpetual limbo, though they've been doing it with Arlovski's contract negotiations for a long time, so I'm not really sure.
The future of Randy Couture is definitely a subject of alot of interest to fans hoping to see solid fights in this heavyweight division. The most we can do right now is sit, wait and watch to see what has happened and what will happen.
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