If you were in any doubt about how incredible it is that Randy Couture is still fighting at the age of 46, his performance last Saturday, at UFC 109, should have laid that to rest. Mark Coleman, a 45-year-old former Olympic wrestler, fought like a man his own age, and got battered and choked out by the evergreen Couture.

Because Couture-Coleman was somewhat one-sided, the Fight Of The Night award went to Chael Sonnen. The middleweight wrestling specialist toughed out a tight guillotine choke and an eye-splitting elbow to grind out a decision over Nate Marquadt and bag himself a fight with middleweight champ Anderson Silva at some point in the future. Right now, however, Sonnen has other things on his mind – namely running for office as a Republican candidate in the state of Oregon. At least the make-up department did a good job on his head wound.

Both Sonnen and Silva will have to face at least one Machiavellian character before they meet in the cage. Sonnen – the shady and well-connected politicos vying with him for office, Silva – wiley BJJ master Demian Maia, who he's fighting at UFC 112 after his scheduled opponent Vitor Belfort pulled out due to injury.

In UK fight news, MF favourite Paul Daley has been taking some psychological warfare tips from his team-mate Dan Hardy – following Hardy’s Photoshop war against Marcus Davis – with a call to web forum-posters to sort out future opponent Josh Koscheck’s hair. They have been, and you can see some of the most inventive re-stylings here. Koscheck himself has inexplicably been using his Twitter account to call out Tito Ortiz, a fighter who’s two weight classes above him. File under ‘never going to happen, but please make it, Dana’.

Finally, in boxing news, it’s been announced that Floyd Mayweather Jr is now likely to face Shane Mosley in a fight that’s only marginally less exciting than his planned bout against Manny Pacqiuao. Mosley is naturally bigger and more powerful than Mayweather and has beaten some serious contenders, such as Antonio Margarito and Louis Collazo. In taking him on, Money has stuck one in the eye of the doubters who claim he won't take risky fights.

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