#3 Fedor Emelianenko vs. Randy Couture
Along these lines to a conceivable battle between Fedor Emelianenko and Brock Lesnar, in 2007 everybody needed to see a battle between the then-PRIDE Heavyweight champion – and accord top Heavyweight on the planet – Fedor and the then-UFC Heavyweight champion Randy Couture.
In the wake of purchasing out the advancement in mid 2007, the UFC were at that point marking the majority of PRIDE’s best contenders, and it appeared to be just a short time before Fedor went with the same pattern.
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Tragically, it was never intended to be. Fedor’s administration could not deal with the UFC – typically conflicting over the issue of a potential co-advancement – thus the Russian never ventured into the Octagon. That was in reality enough to outrage Couture to the point where he left the advancement, resolved to figure out how to battle Fedor outside of the UFC.
Obviously as we as a whole know, claims pursued on the two sides and brought about Couture being stuck on the rack for a year prior coming back to the UFC with his tail tucked between his legs. The Fedor battle never really verged on occurring and keeping in mind that the Russian took out previous UFC champs Tim Sylvia and Andrei Arlovski in Affliction, the battle everybody needed to see remained a fantasy.
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Could Randy have truly pulled off another wonder by crushing the incomparable Fedor? In all genuineness, it’s presumably far-fetched – Fedor took out contenders like Rodrigo Nogueira, who crushed Couture in the UFC – however it would have been a ton of enjoyable to see him attempt, and it stays sad that the UFC neglected to assemble this battle.
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