Couture Quits MMA to Pursue Acting

Update: It seems that Dana White has offered his best to Couture and hopes to see him back in the UFC if he decided to return from retirement.

Also, check out this audio show of Fight Network Radio where you can hear host Mauro Ranallo is joined by Lorretta Hunt and Sam Caplan to discuss the story they broke: Randy Couture quitting UFC.

Brian Knapp at The Fight Network is reporting that Randy Couture has decided to leave the UFC. It seems that Couture wanted a crack at Fedor and since the Russian heavyweight signed with M-1, “The Natural” decided to pursue his acting career instead.

“Randy’s contract was on a fight-by-fight basis, and that’s the way he said he was always going to take it – fight by fight,” said Matt Walker, Couture’s agent at The Gersh Agency. “His acting career is accelerating at an astronomical rate, and without the support he felt some of his peers were receiving in the fight business, this was the logical choice.”

This opens up a great opportunity for some of the UFC’s heavyweight fighters to grab the Heavyweight belt in world’s largest MMA organization. Only one question remains; who will fight for that title first?