UFC 105 Results: Randy Couture Narrowly Beats Brandon Vera in Return to 205
Former UFC heavyweight and light heavyweight champ “The Natural” Randy Couture (17-10) won a unanimous decision over “Truth” Brandon Vera (11-4) by judges’s scores of 29-28 three times at UFC 105 at M.E.N. Arena in Manchester Saturday.
Fighters.com scored the fight 29-28 in favor of Vera. After the decision was announced, Couture said, “You just dont know what the judges are looking at and what determines the fight.”
A dejected Vera left the cage upon hearing that he had lost and sat, head-shaking, on the steps to the cage.
Couture said, “Brandon is a great fighter and he had to dust off his wrestling skills for this one, and he did a great job.”
After Vera opened the bout exploding with a high kick and 1-2 combo, Couture took control of round one in the clinch, pressing Vera to the cage and working for takedowns. Couture scored a trip takedown; but, Vera stood immediatley, back into Couture clinch. The referee broke the clinch twice, but Couture controlled the round.
After the fight, Couture said, “I controlled a lot of the tempo of the fight.”
In round two, Vera dropped Cotoure with a left body kick followed by an overhand right.
“He kicked me hard,” said Couture. “He stung me a good one.”
But, Vera pounced on Couture and only landed an elbow before the referee stood the fighters.
“He got me again in the third round,” Couture admitted after Vera again landed a hard body kick in the final round.
But, Couture controlled much of the action again, without doing much damage. Vera, though, turned the tables on Couture and scored a takedown in the final round.
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The announcers controlled this fight! It was obvious from the start, that both announcers were fans of Randy Couture. They continually sang his praises throughout the very close fight, conceeding nothing to the Vera, who actually took Couture to the mat twice.
Brandon Vera clearly won this fight. The judges must have been swayed by the over zealous announcers, because if they had watched the fight, it would have been scored 29-28 Vera!
Judges can’t hear the announcers. If you have been to a live event you would know that the announcers are not heard in the arena.
I believe Vera won this fight but it was close.
This fight was garbage in my opinion. Brandon Vera continues to frustrate me to no end. He has allllllll the talent in the world and if you see him train hes furious and focused and powerful. He hits the ring, gets a stupid grin on his face and doesn’t do shit!! Where were the jabs with his reach? Why didn’t he circle away from Randy as he comes forward WITH HIS HEAD DOWN?!??! Why didn’t he rip even more of his amazing kicks that OBVIOUSLY worked. He instead throws no hands some feet and allows Randy to tie him up and hold on to him.
I have respect for Randy, but he did NOTHING in this fight.
The judging impartiality is a great threat to the validity of this sport. Couture is a fan favorite and if any swaying was done it was that. Usually the champion has a fan/judge advantage that must be overcome. In this case Randy alone without a belt apparently works the same way. In my opinion, Vera won by doing just a bit more than nothing.
UFC SUCKS!!!!
Rules of judging for mma should be ammended or perhaps judges should be replace!
VERA is the WINNER!
Please read my article on MMA Judging that is on the front page right now.
Couture’s version of working the clinch in this fight amounted to the standing version of a ‘lay and pray.’ It boggles my mind how he can lean on somebody against the cage without doing anything substantial for minutes at a time before being parted by the ref. If the same ineffectual performance had been demonstrated on the ground, they would have been stood up far more quickly.