Having been around Randy for the better part of 15 years except for the last 2
I say Couture punishes him for 5 rounds to prove a point. I know how he thinks and he is really pissed at the UFC right now. They won't let him fight Fedor.......any man who is begging to fight who is considered the best fighter on the Planet for free.....Is on a mission my friends....44 or not that makes no difference in this. He will systematically destroy Lessner...Lessner looked good against a Frank Mir that is a shell of the fighter he was before he got hurt...I don't think that is a huge accomplishment IMO.
Lessner will retire after this fight I will bet the house on it. Randy lost his court fight with the UFC and that is really to bad. Don't look for the UFC to join the rest of the other fighting promotions either. There will be no 1 single belt to signify the one true champion until the UFC says so...unfortunately. Affliction, Elite, WEC ect will all join the sanctioning body this next year. The UFC claims they have the best fighters in the world at every weight class and it will be sometime before we will all know for sure....If they did join then it would cheapen their Championship belts thus making the UFC irrelevant. The fight between UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture and Fedor Emilienenko will never happen now I am afraid. That is the only fight in MMA everyone wants to see and because of greed it won't happen. The shame of it all............