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Kim Couture Rips EXC for Making Carano Weigh In Naked
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Kim Couture, the wife of UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture and a sometime fighter herself, is the latest person in the MMA community to have harsh words for EliteXC this week, telling Steve Cofield that the organization's treatment of Gina Carano is unacceptable:
"I do believe that Gina is probably the biggest draw that they have in EliteXC," Couture said. "Her pay, I think it was $25,000, I think she deserves more."
Couture then turned to the subject of Carano getting naked for her weigh-in, and she said she didn't understand why the promoters and the Florida Boxing Commission couldn't let Carano weigh-in privately, not in front of a crowd and shielded only by towels.
Couture even went so far as to accuse EliteXC promoter Jared Shaw of attempting to look over the towels to look at Carano naked.
"I feel bad that she had to do that," Couture said. "I think they could have handled it differently. ... She would have much rather had me up there then Jared Shaw -- Skala -- in the background trying to peek over the towel. I thought that was pretty low. Yeah, 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."
Obviously, that's an extremely serious accusation, but this week, we've had nothing but extremely serious accusations against EliteXC.
The men get naked for weigh ins, why shouldn't gina?
Men also fight half naked and covering up a penis with a towel is much easier then covering up a women with a towel. Also if the towel fell at a men's weigh in people would probably be grossed out since the audience is mostly male. If the towel fell when Gina was weighing in it would be totally different.
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And she wants gina to get more money? Maybe she should fight 5 minute rounds (the way men do) instead of 3.
It's not Gina's fault she fights 3 minute rounds. It's the athletic commissions fault for making the rounds that long so maybe you should bitch at them instead. I'm sure the women would rather fight 5 minute rounds instead of 3 anyway.
totally agree with MJB. that weigh in could have been done more discretely imho. i dont want to hear bs about "equality" when the real reason is every guy just wants to see her naked. including me...damn shes hot
I think they should have something better than a towel to cover up fighters. It's not like having to strip down is so uncommon... I gotta tell ya I don't want a buncha guys drooling over my junk if the towel falls .
God damn everytime a piece of news that involved Jared Shaw comes out he looks like even more of a dirtbag.
I'm not saying I wouldn't try to sneak a peak however Jared Shaw is her boss and needs to handle himself better.
Now as far as her having to weigh in with just towels idk.
She needs to weigh in in public so people don't think the scales are rigged. However having a bunch of guys hold the towels was pretty messed up.
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Maybe if she would come to weigh ins even remotely close to the shape she should this kind of controversy wouldn't happen. I'm not saying she should have weighed in naked behind a towel like every other fighter (but ultimately I would probably lean that way), I'm just saying if she had a professional bone in her body she would have addressed the weight issue long ago as it's been a known and constant problem for her for years. I do love Carano though, tough as nails and drop dead beautiful while still coming off like a woman unlike so many other female professional fighters (Chris Cyborg comes to mind with her booming testicle voice, she's like a masculine Chyna).
Kim Couture Rips EXC for Making Carano Weigh In Naked
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