And Couture still qualifies as the best (if only because Fedor isn’t with the UFC).

This matchup, for some strange reason, reminds me of the 1998 flick “Armageddon.” Bruce Willis’ heroic middle-aged character leads his ragtag team of drillers, dispatched by the government, to destroy an asteroid that’s on course to knock the Earth off its axis.

Couture is like Willis’ character – a calm, calculating, skilled leader and devoted worker. Lesnar is like that massive asteroid, poised to come out of nowhere and wreck the UFC’s heavyweight division.

Willis’ character dies in the act, but he saves the world.

I’m not predicting Couture will expire while defeating Lesnar this weekend. I just see another stunning victory to add to an already thrilling epic.

But, what the hell? Hoping for some long-shot Hollywood ending to a fight is as ridiculous as thinking a wacky DREAM actually has some kind of meaning to your life.