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BREAKING NEWS: Randy Couture quits UFC, vacates heavyweight title

Stunning news breaking today that Randy Couture has quit the UFC and has vacated his heavyweight title. The Wrestling Observer, citing a Fight Network report, gives us the following info:

The Fight Network has just reported that Randy Couture has quit the promotion, vacating his heavyweight title and leaving his job as a color commentator.

Couture, who works for The Fight Network itself, so there is no way they are going to miss on this story, wrote a letter from South Africa where he’s filming the Scorpion King movie, to Dana White.

Not getting a match with Fedor Emelianenko played a part in his decision. The decision was made when it became clear the match with Fedor wasn’t happening.

It is known Couture was one of the top UFC fighters who was unhappy when reading about the huge money guaranteed in the company’s offers to Emelianenko, because he felt he and a few others were the fighters who helped build the current popularity and they weren’t getting guaranteed income for fights anywhere near that level, particularly since they were bigger drawing cards.

With the decline of Chuck Liddell, Couture was likely the company’s biggest short-term drawing card, and without question, was its most popular fighter.

More on this as it happens…

Couture quits UFC @ The Wrestling Observer

UPDATE: BloodyElbow has more on Couture’s resignation here

UPDATE #2: Sherdog has an interview with Couture here. The UFC has Dana White’s statement on the resignation here.

[tags]UFC, MMA, mixed martial arts, Randy Couture, Dana White [/tags]

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