Muay Thai coach Quentin Chong helping Randy Couture hone skills, ignore Father Time
The questions are all about the age. And they’ve been all about the age for so long that old man Randy Couture can’t remember anything else. The “Natural” is so old that even other fighters get asked about his age.
And age will certainly be a factor Saturday after UFC 102 in Portland when fans will either declare the 46-year-old former heavyweight champion washed up or a miracle of nature.
“He seems 21 to me,” Quentin Chong told MMAjunkie.com. “He does not have an old body.”
Chong is part of the reason Couture seems to defy the crawl of time. The two-time Muay Thai world champion was flown in from South Africa to help Couture train for 33-year-old Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and is part of Couture’s eternal quest to find a strategic edge. Chong has trained a few MMA fighters, but he fails to grasp why Couture’s age should be an issue.
“He has taken great care of his body, and he has a lot of other skills,” Chong said. “But he is like a machine. He doesn’t complain. When he makes a mistake, he corrects it.”
