On Tuesday, September 02, 2008 at 4pm, Dana White announced in a UFC Media Conference Call that MMA legend Randy Couture would be returning to the octagon after resigning from the company last year. His first opponent will be another than Brock Lesnar, one of the most talked about new comers to enter the world of MMA.
The 5 round heavyweight title fight is scheduled to take place on Saturday night, November 15, 2008 at UFC 91 inside the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The winner of the UFC heavyweight title match would later fight the winner of the interim UFC heavyweight title match between Antonio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira and Frank Mir at UFC 92, which takes place on Saturday, December 27, 2008.
The 45-year-old Couture is considered to be if not one of the greatest heavyweight fighters in MMA today, while the 31-year old Lesnar is relatively new to the sport but has an incredible amount of potential given his past amateur and professional wrestling background.
UFC 91 has already early projections to be one of the highest grossing pay-per-views of all time, with a chance to clip the all-time pay-per-view buy rate of the Chuck Liddell/Tito Ortiz showdown at UFC 66 in December 2006, which had over 1 million plus buys.
