Kim Couture on Lina Kvokov fight

The Xtreme Couture blog posted this video of Kim Couture training (and looking surprisingly sharp) along with an interview in which they discuss her kind of sad fight against Lina Kvokov. Check out Kim Couture vs Lina Kvokov here.

Sounds like Kim was as weirded out by the whole thing as we were:

K. Couture: “I trained hard and really wanted to show the MMA fans a good show and let them know I was a 100% and ready to fight, I have the utmost respect for anyone who steps into the cage but felt disappointed that she just wouldn’t engage with me and turned her back on me. I was just dumbfounded.”

XC: “Do you think she shouldn’t of been matched up with you?”

K. Couture: “On paper it looked like a good match-up. We both had 1 professional fight with a loss. She was training with Matt Lindlands Team Quest so I expected she would be ready and I was ready for a stand-up brawl.”

XC: “Did you have a chance to watch the fight yet?”

K. Couture: “Yes, Lina just looked nervous from the moment she tripped coming out to the cage, she just looked like she didn’t want to fight that night.”

Ouch. Kim goes on to say she’d like to fight three or four times a year. Hopefully better opponents lay ahead, since Couture is bound to attract more attention than more experienced/talented female fighters simply because of who her husband is. That fight did nothing good for the credibility of women’s MMA. Probably didn’t help Kvokov’s reputation around Team Quest either.

StrikeForce Destruction: Kim Couture vs Lina Kvokov

StrikeForce Destruction: Kim Couture vs Lina Kvokov

Kim Couture Interview ‘Jared Shaw is a Pervert’

Couture said EliteXC turned the Carano weigh-in into a debacle:

“It was an awkward situation. Thank god her Dad was there. She would’ve much rather had me holding that towel for her than Jared Shaw in the background trying to peek over the towel. I thought that was pretty low.”

As if the week hasn’t been rough enough for the younger Shaw, now Couture is claiming that the EliteXC VP is a pervert:

“He’s got a little bit of an obsession with Gina Carano as most guys do. He was trying to sneak a peek, it was ridiculous.”

Gina Carona vs Kim Couture

Gina Carano and Kim Couture grappling.

Kim Couture Debates Women’s MMA

Did Kim really go out to touch gloves?
Did Kim’s fight deserve to be stopped earlier?
Should WMMA bouts go 5 rounds?
What would’ve been the fallout had this fight been on CBS?

A Night Of Combat: Kim Couture vs Kim Rose

A Night Of Combat: Kim Couture vs Kim Rose Part 1

A Night Of Combat: Kim Couture vs Kim Rose Part 2

A Night Of Combat: Kim Couture vs Kim Rose Part 3