Just announced on the 4pm conference call (originally scheduled for 3pm, delayed until 4pm). This fight will supposedly be for the UFC Heavyweight Championship title. Nogueira is currently the interim UFC Heavyweight Champion. He will fight Frank Mir in December, and the winner of that fight gets the winner of Couture/Lesnar in 2009.
The rumors have been going around for days now about Randy Couture returning to the UFC to fight Brock Lesnar, and it’s looking more and more like the rumors are true. Supposedly, the UFC has a press conference scheduled for today at 3pm Eastern Time. The press conference is expected to be an announcement for Randy Couture vs. Brock Lesnar at UFC 91 in November.
As excited as I am about Randy Couture fighting again, I don’t like this match-up for him. However, in all fairness, I didn’t like his chances against Tim Sylvia or Gabriel Gonzaga either, and he kicked both of their asses. We know Randy sometimes has trouble with big wrestlers (Josh Barnett, Ricco Rodriguez) and Brock Lesnar is a huge wrestler and very quick. This will be an interesting fight, and I’m really wanting to see Randy Couture beat Brock Lesnar convinvingly.