UFC 118 Results: Randy Couture Submits James Toney: Going in as a huge underdog and a world of experience and disciplines behind, James “Lights Out” Toney [+350 ML] got his lights turned off by an arm-triangle from “The Natural”, Randy Couture [-575 ML] at UFC 118 Results. Although, it was the outcome everyone expected, I think no one anticipated it to come that easy for Couture, nor did people expect Toney to be that unprepared on his back. It flat out looked silly!
From the opening bell, one could see that Couture wasn’t stupid enough to engage with Toney on his feet. That 
would be as stupid as a guy like Toney trying to take the fight to the ground against a great grappler like Couture!
“It would be as silly as I think it is for James to jump into mixed martial arts the way he did here and I think it would go about the same way,” said Couture when asked if he would take a boxing fight against Toney. “James would probably knock me out in the first round.”
Coming out with an orthodox boxing stance, Toney practically gave Couture the single-leg takedown, and Captain America capitalized. Not for anything, but the fact that everyone in the world knew that Couture would come out and take the fight to the mat, and the fact that Toney’s trainers failed to tell him that wearing those foot-guards would give the Greco-Roman wrestler a better grip is completely out of my mind!
“The first thing I noticed when I got into the cage and kind of settled in was that he was wearing those things on his feet,” said Couture. “A huge thing with shooting a low single is you’re used to doing it against wrestlers when they’re wearing shoes ‘cause it’s something that I can grip, so when he had those things on his feet, I was like, ‘Oh, this is going to be better. I have something I can grip.’”
On his back, Toney literally looked like a fish out of water, as Couture immediately transitioned to the mount without much resistance.
“I didn’t feel like he demonstrated any solid skills once he hit his butt,” Couture said during the UFC 118 Results press conference. “He didn’t close his guard. He didn’t protect himself that well; I was able to maneuver and get to mount pretty easily. From mount I knew he had no idea– I could hear his corner yelling at him…but he was more interested in trying to butt me in the head from his back.”
From that point on, it just seemed like Toney gave up, as Couture softened him up with punches to the head and body, only to set up an arm-triangle that would take the boxing champ out of his misery.
The funniest part of that fight came when Toney’s lights were going out. After Randy turned the corner and sunk in the triangle deep, it seems like Toney didn’t know what to do or how to tap. Instead, Toney sort of waived for help kind of like when a person is drowning in the ocean and waves for the lifeguard to come and save them. In any case, I think we’re all glad the experiment is over…
“It’s been a fun ride with James. It’s been very interesting. He’s a nutty guy,” said UFC President Dana White trying really hard to be PC. “Toney lasted longer than I thought he would actually. It’s unfair to bring in a guy with one discipline no matter if he’s trained eight or nine months. I wasn’t the guy going out and trying to bad-mouth boxing and take boxing down and hurt the sport of boxing. James Toney picked a fight and he got one.”
