yeh i’d love to see a more popular fighter fight as much as kos… the likes of page, A.silva, W.silva etc…

i do think anderson silva will be very busy this year and next with all the top contenders at MW atm

This is NO EASY win for Kos. Wilson is legit. I like Kos for staying Busy, but that strategy is going to coast him a title shot. Jumping from one fight to the next, gets you paid, but doesnt help being awarded title shot. This will catch up with Ko’s body and he will be fatigued!

john, any word on Mamed Khalidov?? I’d love to see him in the UFC and see if he could get down to 185.

Crowls, regretfully I have to admit that I don’t even know who that is. give me some info on him if you have the time. I will keep an eye open for you though.

Good prospect(a poor man’s Mousasi IMO). He fought at ShoXC and beat up Older caveman brother. Not sure if he’s one of the contracts snatched up by Strikeforce but i can’t imagine why not. If not then i’d probly expect him to fight in M1 or maybe a british show.

Wilson may be legit and everythin’ but I think whichever wayyou putit, The Professor is definitelya step down in competition for Kos. Well, in a way, that’s how you could look at the Paulo Thiago fight[for lots of us don’t know who the heck he was before TKO’ing Kos], but Thiago validated his status as a UFC fighter. Hoping for another upset!

yea john, he fought jason guida on showtime back in like october. pulled some sweet looking stuff. Polish guy who looks like a smaller AA(body type anyway). He rolled into a kneebar from the feet, did some other crazy grappling stuff, threw spinning fists and kicks. Threw a roundhouse upkick from the ground that was awesome. I was def impressed and wanna see more of him. He looks like a guy that could def hold his own in the UFC.

also, he if you check his record, he has wins in a real variety of ways. Armbar, kneebar, tko, KO highkick, all sorts of stuff. Has 3 losses(1 KO, 2 Sub) but they were all in his first 5 fights i blv and he hasn’t lost since sept. ‘05. I looked into it a little bit, he’s fighting in some polish promotion and wants to continue to be able to do so. That in mind, I’d imagine he’ll sign with strikeforce to get non exclusivity so he can still fight back home. Disappointing.

thanks for the info guys. Sounds entertaining. I am definitely going to watch some footage on him. Thanks again!

Kos big weakness right now is he is relying too much on left jab-overhand right. he has fast hands and should learn more boxing. he has the same attack everytime and if he mixes it up more he might find himself scoring knockouts with left hooks or right uppercuts or maybe a good liverpunch instead of the same overhand right all the time. hes trying too hard to be a tough guy instead of a smart fighter. a good boxer with wrestling skills are scary fighters, kinda like the current champ right now.

The current champ really has just about every skill.

Kos will never get another title shot. He’s not in the same league. His striking, while it was effective against lower compertition still isn’t up to snuff and he can’t seem to realize what he is. A wrestler that needs to take people down and work ‘em over. He will continue to fight mediocre fighters and win the majority of them, but we’ve heard the last of him as far as being a contender.

good post Ethan. I hate having to listen to Rogan’s Crap about what a great, Chuck Liddell-esque fighter Josh has become. Give me a break! That BS over hand right that he wings around like an idiot! I hope that in the future Kos bitches about taking the alves fight on short notice and campaigns for a rematch, so I can get to see my boy Alves DESTROY him again! I was SO DAMN happy that night! Happy Paulo tHiago drugged him as well!

You are on the button perfectly, the only fighter you didn’t mention and we need to see him in the ufc again against anderson silva and I strongly believe he can be the one to defeat silva especially after watching him fight at affliction so powerful and so explosive at the weight he is fighting at he is able to show his true fighting ability.

Brendan those fighters are rich! they dont need to entertain you every 3 months.

furthermore these fighters are not as obsessed with fighting as you fans are, and i would go out on a limb and say they probably have lives outside of fighting.

the fact that koscheck is RICH and DOES NOT need to fight that often makes it better for him, he actually wants to be in there fighting.. and that was brendans point, so what AKA is the camp that doesn’t wanna fight the best and would rather take the easy road through everything but at least kos wants to fight every card he can, take in mind his contract pays what 60k each fight? thats over 200k this year alone just off pay not to mention bonuses and sponsors, the guys who fight once or twice a year are the ones who end up like ricco rodriguez and ken shamrock fighting til they are 50 not making shit for money but didnt do it in there prime so now they have to

Ko’s is doing it right, he’s not RICH that’s why he’s fighting he’s got a few yrs at his peak to make his $$. KO’s needs to change his fighting strategy is all, mix it up more with takedowns n GnP… he was definitely dominating the fight until he got caught.

agreed boom, i used 2 hate him but his drive has one me over. chuck used to fight nearly every 3 months. which is insane enough. rashad evans is losing my respect for this reason. he didn’t take the page fight because he needed more time, when they fought the same card. i guess he wants jardine to fight all his opponents first so he can learn a little bit about him. i think rampage learned in his fight against forrest that ring rust is a mother to shake off, and he wants to fight more often now.

Yeah, ring rust is one sick mutha! Ask Kampmann.

I will never be a fan! NOw that mma is legal in Pennsylvania (where Kos is from), I am sure he will be fighting on the 1st UFC card in philly….and I cant wait to booo the crap out of him live in person!

haha, man I gotta give you credit. you really stick to your guns on fighters you don’t like

damn right crowls! I dont believe kos’s good guy act. He is a douche bag, who has gotten a bad rap by the fans, and now he tries to act in a way that fans would cheer him for. Deep inside, He is still a dIK!!! So F that dude! I respect him for fighting a lot, but Its hard for me to respect a guy that doesnt even have enough respect for his own career to watch footage on his opponents.

i stand corrected onthe first two dates, but you figure it up and that is 4 (four) times in 364 days at the age of 36. sounds pretty good for a fighter fighting top competition in a year. rashad is acting like he only wants to fight every six months or something.wtf.
  sorry matt but it was still 4, not three.

speaking of rashad, are they going to let jardine test the waters on every fighter for him?

Agreed, Koscheck was googly eyed. That should be stopped every time.