James Toney Welcomes A Fight With Randy Couture

When news broke earlier this week about the UFC’s signing of James Toney, speculation quickly arose as to against who, and when “Lights Out” would make his Octagon debut. While rumors swirled of potential opponents for Toney, UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture spoke up on Twitter and semi-called for the fight.

↵And though there is heavy talk about a possible James Toney vs. Kimbo Slice fight (insert facepalm here), Toney responded to Couture’s comments via Fight Hype. Enjoy.

↵↵“Damn...oh really? That’s what I’m talking about. That’s right up my alley. Oh, hell yeah! ...Let me tell you something, I came to the UFC to do one thing and that’s to fight the best out there. If it’s Couture, so be it. If it’s somebody else, so be it. Let’s get it on and popping. When Dana White said MMA fighters are better than boxers, come on now, you know better than that.

↵All day! The fights start standing and that’s my comfort zone all day, you heard me. If they think they going to rush me to the ground and think it’s going to be easy and I don’t know what I’m doing, come on man. I’m a very strong man. I know what I have to do and if they shoot in on me, they getting launched into outer space like a satellite.

↵Ah man, you know it’s going to be through the roof. People want to see this. To all my haters out there, I love you. Keep hating because you gonna make my buy rate go up... I train every day, 2 to 3 times a day. I’m doing my thing, so you know what? Whatever they bring, I got something for ‘em.

↵Dana is a businessman and he’s done a great job with the UFC and he brought it back to the top of the game. Now he has the top dog in boxing in his organization and it’s going to flourish even more now. Like I said, I’m already a heavyweight boxing champion and now I’m coming to the UFC. I’m bringing everything: excitement, charisma and pizzazz. They gonna love it and they gonna need more, you know what I’m saying?”

↵↵Yeah James, I know what you’re saying. I feel you, brah. People bout to get sent to the moon, kid. Your haters need to stop hating on your pizzazz. I get it.

↵Can you imagine a UFC Countdown show with this guy? Now THAT, would be good television.

↵In all seriousness, one of the very few ways the UFC can salvage this whole Toney ordeal in my opinion would be throwing him in the cage with “Captain America.” Make it happen Zuffa.