UFC hall of famer and two time champion Randy “Natural” Couture 18-10-0 (Win-Loss-Draw) comments on UFC middleweight champion Anderson “Spider” Silva’s recent performances, says that the “Spider” is playing safe. After being dominated by Chael Sonnen in the first 4 rounds at UFC 117, he submitted Sonnen in the last round and retained his middleweight title.

“I think Anderson needs to look at the spirit in which he’s competing, it appears to me that he’s been doing his best not to lose. Instead of doing what he did early on and competing to win, and taking guys out, he’s doing enough now to get by, be successful and keep winning; you have to kind of go out, risk it and lay it all on the line. That’s the way it is. I think Anderson has strayed away from that a little bit, but I don’t think he’s getting old at all. I think he’s still a tremendous athlete with amazing ability. You know, there were some pretty interesting things he still demonstrated in the fight against Sonnen even though most of the fight, he spent on his back and got dominated, i’ve said all along the guy that’s going to give Anderson Silva fits is the guy with that tenacious wrestling style, Danny Henderson had that ability, stole a round from Anderson when they fought, and kind of strayed away from that game plan and got to slinging gloves with Anderson, which I think is always a bad idea, i’ve said a number of times when asked if I’d like to fight Anderson that that would be a great fight, I think that I’d do well against him. He’s a very graceful, amazing athlete, and one of the best guys in our sport. Those are definitely the kind of guys you want to fight.” Couture said via MMAfighting.com