Patrick Cote video on preparation for Anderson Silva UFC 90 fight

by Sean McManus on Oct 9, 2008 4:36 PM EDT

MMACanada.net recently caught up with Patrick Cote in Montreal, Quebec, while he was in the midst of preparing for his middleweight title fight against Anderson "The Spider" Silva at UFC 90: "Silva vs. Cote" at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Ill., on October 25.

Shortly after this video was taken, which shows "The Predator" sparring and a brief behind the scenes look into his preparations for the biggest fight of his career, Cote headed down to Boston to train with Mark DellaGrotte at the famed Sityodtong gym.

After watching Anderson Silva dismantle a "who’s who" of the middleweight division last night on Spike TV’s "UFC Unleashed," Cote is going to have his hands full with the Brazilian.

Regardless of how heavy the odds favor the best ‘pound for pound fighter’, Cote is confident leading up to October 25.

Check out his thoughts right here.

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All he needs to practice is falling down…

by Bocun on Oct 9, 2008 4:52 PM EDT reply actions

LOL!

by BNF on Oct 9, 2008 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions

how many interviews of this guy do we have to see? jeez can we get a sean sherk or tyson griffin interview or something else? jeeeezus this guy is a chatty cathy

by brendan on Oct 9, 2008 8:38 PM EDT up reply actions

I don’t know who that guy was that Cote was practicing his standup with, but he mimic Anderson Silva extremely well and that confirms to me why Cote is going to get KTFO.

by THORAZINE on Oct 10, 2008 1:11 AM EDT up reply actions

This fight of Cote with Silva is bullsh

by The Negation on Oct 10, 2008 7:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Cote by K.O.
write it down!!!

by The_Cannibal on Oct 9, 2008 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions

i will write it down on my roll of toilet paper

by Egads on Oct 10, 2008 12:38 AM EDT up reply actions

cause you will wipe your mouth with after you eat your shit.

by Ro-J on Oct 10, 2008 3:20 AM EDT up reply actions

I have it already written down ages ago!

by The Negation on Oct 10, 2008 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions

this really has to be the most covered fight in mma history

there have been about a million Cote interviews posted

but not as much from Anderson,

It is starting to get old, Just FIGHT ALREADY

by mitt romney on Oct 9, 2008 11:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Ok, Canibal just explain why Cote is going to win.. because if the impossible happens you’ll look like a genius.

by THORAZINE on Oct 10, 2008 1:12 AM EDT up reply actions

1. no one is unbeatable
2. no matter how humble a person is when people keep calling you the best in the world and unbeatable it will eventually go to your head (Tyson)
3. people keep saying the best person to beat the spider is a dude with a good ground game, i disagree, he’s proven in convincing fashion his ground game is not his weak point as we once thought. The person most likely to beat him is a dude who can take a beating and has K.O. power (when was the last time Cote was K.O.’d, see Mcfedries fight for his power.
4. The spider will fight where his opponent chooses to fight him, so even though he could take Cote down and submit him in a second he will trade with him. Anderson is obviously the more skilled striker but all it takes is one and he does have a tendency to mock his opponents and take their stand-up lightly.

obviously i’m going out on a limb here but as soon as people start talking about how impossible it is and how it’s a waste of time to even have the fight is when shit like this happens.

in his las few championship fights people were saying is this the guy that’s gonna do it, so and so has the best chance (hendo, lutter, marquardt) and they got handled, now people are saying Cote is definitely not the guy, he has no chance. I think it makes perfect sense that it would be him, this is the UFC (Liddell, Sylvia, GSP, Shogun, Crocop, Rampage) it happens when you least suspect it

by The_Cannibal on Oct 10, 2008 11:57 AM EDT up reply actions

patrick cote by HADOUKEN!!!…round 1..

by indo mma on Oct 10, 2008 2:35 AM EDT up reply actions

let the cote bashing begin. i like cote. he seems like a very nice, very cool dude. he is a pretty exciting fighter and has a ton of heart, but he has the dubious task of fighting the best fighter on the planet. he’s not gonna beat a.silva (but who can at mw?) but i would be happy to see him give silva a little bit of a tussle and make it into the 3rd or dare i say 4rth rnd. i know thats just wishful thinking though.

by b.w. on Oct 9, 2008 5:01 PM EDT reply actions

b.dub. you just jinxed Anderson!

by JV on Oct 9, 2008 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions

You cant Jinx the spider!

Poor Cote!

by john on Oct 9, 2008 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions

john, I got Dodgers in 6 at the most.

by the_mexicutioner on Oct 9, 2008 9:01 PM EDT up reply actions

well mex…right now its 1-0 Fighting Phils babay! If we win game 2 today, we will be in the world series!

by john on Oct 10, 2008 10:13 AM EDT up reply actions

b.w., Cote is a great guy and I have rooted for him in every one of his fights, except Leban, but in my mind I know he is going to meet the same fate, if not worse, than all the other MW’s in the UFC. I don’t want to get emotionally attached to this fight. I just want to see Anderson pull some amazing Muy Thai out of his a**!

by BNF on Oct 9, 2008 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions

i know, i know. cote is gonna get wrecked, i would just like to see someone give him a competative fight at least. if silva blows through cote in 1 rnd i think he should move up to lhw permanantly or wait and fight the gsp/bj winner at mw not a catch weight like dana has suggested.

by b.w. on Oct 9, 2008 5:24 PM EDT up reply actions

LHW is where it’s at for Silva… There are at least 4 mega fights and some other main events for sure. Wanderlie, Rampage, Forrest, Chuck (maybe), Thiago, Rashad (I guess), Vera…

by BNF on Oct 9, 2008 5:43 PM EDT up reply actions

Now this would be a Rocky story if Cote would get an upset. Too bad this is reality. Cote is gona get f*cked up!!!

by JV on Oct 9, 2008 5:31 PM EDT up reply actions

I’m with you b.w., I like Cote and will obviously be supporting my fellow Canadian in this fight. On the other hand, as an MMA fan I absolutely love Silva and his patented “ballet of violence”. Now, I realize Cote’s likely going to get completely owned (in fact, watching the Marquart fight the other day, actually had me a little scared for Patrick) but I would really like to see him make this a competitive fight. Unfortunately, I also have no idea how he might actually pull that off. I think I’m looking at being a little sad no matter what happens in this fight, so I really hope it’s at least an exciting fight that makes it into the later rounds. I don’t know, maybe a freak loss to Cote would have Anderson reconsider this retirement talk.

by Canucklehead on Oct 9, 2008 7:13 PM EDT up reply actions

good for him for being confident and training hard, he might just make it out of the first round….. WAR silva- STIll i rather see Silva fight at 205 after he ruins Cote, and hopefully a future fight with bisping! Silva vs Rampage is a dream match!!

by Ricky on Oct 9, 2008 5:08 PM EDT reply actions

I liked watching Silva’s last five of six fights (excluding the Marquadt fight only I believe) on unleashed last night. It just shows you that he is the most dominant MMA fighter on the planet and that he’s just one scary dude.

I think Silva is going to get Cote in the clinch like he did to Franklin and just fuck his shit up. Cote will need reconstructive face surgery after this fight is over with.

Next up should be another bout at 205 — perhaps winner of Jardine/Vera — before taking Henderson II (provided he slaughters Franklin like I project) then maybe Marquadt II, a fight with Maia and perhaps Leites.

by Anthony on Oct 9, 2008 5:15 PM EDT reply actions

Silva is a bad match for Jardine. Anderson vs Wandy, or Shogun. Battle of Brazil!

by sinister on Oct 9, 2008 6:14 PM EDT up reply actions

if anybody has the tools to beat silva at 205, its those two guys, aggressive, ruthless, well rounded attacks, keep the pressure on and silva will crack, rich franklin decided that standing right in front of silva was a great idea, TWICE… Leben, please… Lutter? even worse… Irvin? joke… give the man a real opponent! (Henderson excluded)

by brendan on Oct 9, 2008 11:47 PM EDT up reply actions

Cote doesn’t seem like the smartest guy in the world, but I think that’s what makes him dangerous. He respects Silva’s skills, but I think he genuinely gives himself a realistic chance to win this fight. He has no confidence issues, that’s for sure.

by Pat on Oct 9, 2008 5:19 PM EDT reply actions

I dont understand why ppl arent giving him a shot at all. I believe Anderson will win, but Cote hits hard, and anything is possible in an mma fight. And of course he genuinly gives himself a chance. He shouldnt be a fighter if he doesnt. Should be a fun match to watch though, I like both guys alot. Lookin forward to it.

by Joey 1.0 on Oct 9, 2008 5:46 PM EDT up reply actions

It’s good to see that Cote is working hard. I’m 99% sure that Anderson will win, but honestly, this is MMA and after watching favorite after favorite get stomped out, I don’t know if I’ll be saying “OOOHHHHHHHHHH!!!!” if Silva loses LOL. I’ll just slug my beer and shout WAR MMA!!!

by rockwell on Oct 9, 2008 5:34 PM EDT reply actions

It’s kind of amazing that Cote is in a title fight. It seems not too long ago that he had his back to the wall in the UFC because he hadn’t won a fight. His road to a title shot did not pass through any of the major guns in the division: Hendo, Franklin, Marquardt, Okami. You can tell that he is happy just to be there. He seems like mere filler to keep AS active while Okami heals up and Hendo and Marquardt sort out who’s going to get a second shot.

In a way, I think that is what makes Cote dangerous. He is such a punching bag with no apparent chance at victory, that you almost have to go the other way with it and wonder if he can’t land one on the button and shock us all. I give him about a 3% chance of doing that, but still, that is something.

Franklin doesn’t hit hard enough to threaten Silva standing. Hendo doesn’t have the range as a striker. Marquardt has the best all around game to threaten him, IMO. But it could be a guy who hits hard and manages to time AS with a single strike (finished by a flurry of GnP of course) that topples him from his perch of dominance. Something like Serra/GSP 1. Cote could conceivably be that guy. Anderson and his talk of retirement in a year or so has me thinking he is ripe for an upset. I wouldn’t bet on it, as obviously he is a ridiculous favorite to destroy Cote, who seems tailor made for him. But that is exactly the way I see Silva losing. Not to a guy who is his equal or near equal skillwise, but to a dude like Cote, who lands a (no such thing as a) lucky punch.

If AS dismantles Cote, I’d like to seem him fight Chuck myself. I think Chuck still has maybe another great fight in him, and his best way back to the top after being blasted by Rashad would be to find a way to beat the current #1 P4P. It just takes one strike…

by revjames13 on Oct 9, 2008 5:52 PM EDT reply actions

cote is a nice guy but anderson is going to fuck his shit up. i’m 99% sure

by jojomcbean on Oct 9, 2008 6:07 PM EDT reply actions

i agree i think chuck is a great fight!! For one chuck has a style that is different and poses different problems for anderson. However he would have to keep his hands higher for sure if he was to win this one!!

Cote is a stepping stone, unfortunately its that simple, ofcourse he has a punchers chance, look what happened to chuck/evans, but the odds are a little different here.

For anderson to be pfp the best he def has to fight some top fighters, these fights are not the telling of a pfp best fighter, they just make the record look good similiar to a lot of fedor fights, he has to be fighting, rampage/liddell/wandi/shugun/gsp/griffin etc… as these are fights that will test him for sure!!!!!!!!!

by mo on Oct 9, 2008 6:24 PM EDT reply actions

Difference between Chuck and Anderson is Anderson doesnt go into the pocket on the defensive with his hands down and “bait” his opponents with his chin.

I think Cote will have a hard time, but if he won It would be hard not to be surprised.

by DirtyML on Oct 9, 2008 7:02 PM EDT reply actions

i agree dirtyML, thats why im saying it would be a great fight, but in order for chuck to have a good chance he would have to keep his hands up in this one!!!

by mo on Oct 9, 2008 7:35 PM EDT reply actions