Couture Manhandles Gonzaga: UFC 74 Results
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Whatever Randy Couture is eating, I want some of it. He dominated a younger, stronger, bigger opponent. AGAIN.
Couture dropped Gabriel Gonzaga on his head in the first round and broke the Brazilian’s nose. As Gonzaga’s mouth hung open, searching for breath and spitting mouthfuls of blood onto the champion, Couture dirty-boxed the bigger man into submission, catching him with short punches and elbows from the clinch. Gonzaga landed some great shots, and even caught Couture with a Cro Cop killing high kick right to the head. The champion barely flinched, closed the distance and finished him up in the third round via ground and pound and a referee stoppage.
The crowd was electric and they surged with every shot that The Natural landed. It’s not that the fans were anti-Gonzaga; they were pro-Couture, just like the rest of us. I continue to be surprised and even awed by a man who, by all natural sense, is past his prime. However, rather than slowing down, Couture looks stronger with every fight. He claims he is the best MMA fighter he has ever been, and I have to say he’s never looked better (with the exception of when he dominated and literally spanked Tito Ortiz).
In the night’s other headliner, Georges St. Pierre absolutely ran through Josh Koscheck to take the unanimous decision. GSP dominated the 4-time All-American wrestler taking him down repeatedly; something that Koscheck declared was silly to even suggest as a possibility.
St. Pierre looked much more like the man who whipped Matt Hughes for the welterweight title, and nothing like like the man who was knocked out on his feet by the striking-inept Matt Serra in his next fight to lose the belt. The fans were clearly pleased to GSP back in his winning ways, and his victory sets up another monumental title shot against the winner of the Hughes-Serra matchup later this year.
Frank Mir looked like a champ again (even though pay-per-view viewers didn’t see it), submitting Antoni Hardonk in round 1.
In other action:
Roger Huerta defeats Alberto Crane via 3rd Round TKO.
Joe Stevenson defeats Kurt Pellegrino via unanimous decision.
Patrick Cote defeats Kendall Grove via 1st Round TKO.
Renato ‘Babalu’ Sobral defeats David Heath via 2nd Round submission.
Thales Leites defeats Ryan Jensen via 1st Round submission.
Clay Guida defeats Marcus Aurelio via Split Decision.
And just in case you wanted to know… I called every fight correctly. 
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