Randy Couture Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter

Randy Duane Couture (/koʊˈtʊər/; born June 22, 1963) is an
American actor, former U.S. Army sergeant, retired mixed martial
artist and former collegiate and Greco-Roman wrestler. During his
tenures in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), he became a
three-time UFC Heavyweight Champion, two-time UFC Light heavyweight
Champion, an interim UFC Light heavyweight Champion, making him a
six-time UFC Champion and the UFC 13 Heavyweight Tournament winner. He
is the first of seven fighters to hold two UFC championship titles in
two different divisions (along with B.J. Penn, Conor McGregor, Georges
St-Pierre, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes, and Henry Cejudo).Couture has
competed in a record 16 title fights. He is tied for the record for
the most wins in UFC Heavyweight Championship bouts (6) with current
UFC Heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic. He had the most title reigns in
the UFC, with six. His last fight with Lyoto Machida marked his 24th
fight in the UFC. He is the fourth member of the UFC Hall of Fame. He
is the only person over the age of 40 to have won a UFC championship
fight, having done so four times. He is one of the few MMA champions
to regain a title he had lost, and the only to have done it three
times (twice at heavyweight, once at light heavyweight).Couture was an
Olympic wrestling alternate and has lived in Corvallis, Oregon
throughout much of his career, where he served as an assistant
wrestling coach and a strength and conditioning coach for Oregon State
University. He established Team Quest with Matt Lindland and Dan
Henderson, a training camp for fighters, based out of Gresham, Oregon,
and headed by coach Robert Folis. In 2005, he moved to Las Vegas,
where he opened his own extensive chain of gyms under the name Xtreme
Couture. He partnered with Bas Rutten to open Legends Gym in
Hollywood, California.Couture is generally recognized as a clinch and
ground-and-pound fighter who uses his wrestling ability to execute
take downs, establish top position and successively strike the
opponent on the bottom. He has displayed a variety of skills in boxing
and catch wrestling. He is the only UFC fighter to win a championship
after becoming a Hall-of-Famer and is the oldest champion in MMA
history. Randy is also well known as an actor due to his work in the
Expendables Franchise. Randy Couture Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter




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