{"id":1419,"date":"2007-03-04T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2021-03-09T18:43:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T22:43:19","slug":"couture-shocks-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1419","title":{"rendered":"Couture Shocks the World!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Last night <strong>43-year old UFC Hall of Famer<\/strong>, <strong>Randy Couture<\/strong> shocked the world by not only winning, but by dominating <strong>Tim Sylvia<\/strong> for all <strong>five rounds<\/strong> to take back the <strong>UFC heavyweight championship belt<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Going into the fight most people in the know were predicting another win for <strong>Sylvia<\/strong>. At <strong>6&#8217;8&#8243;<\/strong> and <strong>263<\/strong> pounds, <strong>Sylvia<\/strong> had a <strong>6&#8243; height advantage<\/strong>, a <strong>40 pound weight advantage<\/strong> and was <strong>13 years younger<\/strong> than <strong>Couture<\/strong>. The word on <strong>Couture<\/strong> was that he didn&#8217;t do as well when he fought as a heavyweight and he didn&#8217;t do well against strikers&#8230; and <strong>Sylvia<\/strong> is one of the <strong>biggest<\/strong> and <strong>hardest hitting<\/strong> strikers in the game. All of that didn&#8217;t matter though once they were in the ring. BIG PROPS to <strong>Randy Couture<\/strong>!<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">[And for those interested, <strong>Rich Franklin<\/strong> and<strong> Matt Hughes<\/strong> both <strong>won their comeback fights<\/strong>!]<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night 43-year old UFC Hall of Famer, Randy Couture shocked the world by not only winning, but by dominating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25546,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/25546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}