In the worlds of wrestling and Mixed Martial Arts, Randy Couture has done it all. One of the greatest and most popular fighters in the history of UFC and MMA, and a member of the UFC Hall of Fame, Couture's ring history equals that of any of boxing's most legendary stars. Although MMA is still in its infancy, several decades from now fans and fighters will look back at Randy Couture's career and call him one of the pioneering legends of the increasingly popular Octagon sport.

After climbing to the top of the fight world, Couture is now able to spend time doing other things and was recently cast in David Mamet's Redbelt, which explores the world of Mixed Martial Arts and opens wide on May 9. While doing press for Redbelt, Randy Couture enlightened journalists on the dynamics of the MMA world, his role in the film, the honor within the sport, his worst injury inside the ring, and the stars to watch our for in today's rising MMA universe.

Randy Couture on whether filmmakers are getting fight movies right:

"Yeah, I think there's certainly a way to portray the sport, Mixed Martial Arts, and that can be done accurately. I don't think you're ever going to capture the intensity of the sport, just like boxing. All the boxing movies that have ever been done, it's still not real. Everybody knows it's still on film. They're not really hitting each other as in the real sport. So I don't think you'll ever capture that in the same way, but it can still be accurately portrayed. There are certainly a lot of interesting stories about mixed martial artists and their lives and the things that they've gone through to get where they're at. I think that's what I liked about this script and this movie is that it focused more on that story rather than just the fight. It's not just a fight movie."

Couture on his role as an announcer in Redbelt and how much of himself is in the character:

"Well, I had the good fortune in this, because I know the sport as well as I do. I got to ad-lib a bunch of the stuff that I did because I'm looking at two fighters that are, even though in this scene they're acting, they're not actually fighting, they're still executing real technique and real situations that happen in fights. And I've done some commentary and some color work for UFC and the fight network, so I could just say what I would say if I was watching two guys fight. It wasn't scripted. So I think in that sense, that was my way of bringing some authenticity to the movie, at least that perspective."

On the accuracy of the redbelt concept:

"I've never heard of the redbelt before but I'm not a traditional martial artist, so I'm the wrong guy to ask. I came from an Olympic wrestling background and we don't have belts for anything other than to hold our drawers up."

On the honor within the sport in relation to the main character:

"I think it's a little bit different for the main character. He's coming from a more traditional martial arts background and he doesn't really believe in the sport, but I think it's one of the things that people are captivated by in our sport, mixed martial arts, when two guys get in a cage and punch each other in the head, and afterwards they shake hands and they're friends. I think we share a camaraderie. I think there is honor and a respect amongst the athletes in our sport that maybe even boxing and some of the other combative sports you don't see. I think a lot of that comes from the more traditional martial arts background, the martial arts part of what we do. It's not just the fights."

Couture on whether he knew many of the fighters before he went into the film:

"I knew some of the other fighters for sure. My former manager and trainer, Rico Chiapparelli was in some of the fight scenes. Enson Inoue, I competed against in the Japan Vale Tudo, The Machado Brothers, John Machado is one of the main characters. I'm very familiar with him. He's a well known Brazilian Jujitsu practitioner and related to the Gracie family, who started mixed martial arts. So I certainly know those folks from the fight world. It's kind of like old home week when we're not shooting scenes, just hanging out."

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