One of the sport’s most beloved and revered figures, he will be featured on an installment of A&E’s “Biography” next week. The Emmy-award winning series has profiled some of the world’s most influential people, from statesmen and Supreme Court justices to activists and pop-culture icons. Soon, Couture’s name will placed alongside those of Princess Diana, Oprah Winfrey and Christopher Columbus. His hour-long episode -- scheduled to premiere at 10 p.m. on Wednesday -- will be sandwiched in between similar pieces on professional wrestling superstars Andre the Giant and Hulk Hogan, though it will be remiss of any fight footage which Zuffa refused to grant to the show.





“Biography” is the longest-running single-topic documentary series on television and profiled enough figures by 1999 that A&E spun the program off into an entire network -- The Biography Channel.





Couture’s episode includes interviews with his two oldest children, his mother, former referee “Big” John McCarthy and a host of others closest to the only five-time champion in UFC history.


The list includes Sherdog. com news editor Loretta Hunt, the collaborator on Couture’s memoirs, “Becoming the Natural – My Life In and Out of the Cage,” released through Simon and Schuster Inc. on July 22.

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