he is right Koscheck made a complete meal out of nothing although Kos was the better fighter – not by much tho! AJ just needs to work his BJJ and heel be back near the top again!

That much should be glaringly obvious. Seriously, he was whining and rolling around about his eye when there a) was no contact and b) was no visible or lasting damage. Rumble had him rocked right before that and stuffed his takedown so Koscheck looked for a way out.

That said, Rumble’s ground game is pitiful.

no doubt that Johnson poked Kos in the eye. I’m not sure where Johnson is coming from with his statement about Kos gassing. Johnson should stop being a poor loser. I agree with Kos that he should fight Hardy and the winner fights GSP (who apparently is injured and could probably use the extra time off).

gsp will stand for a while get clipped and revert to type.he wont stand with hardy.ok i know your gonna say he stood with alves but alves was tentative about being taken down.hardy sets everything up with his hands and to him being taken down is an occupational hazard.he wont hold back i guarantee it.gsp will win but it will be gnp stoppage/sub or decision.i will change my name to anything u want if gsp stops hardy with strikes

i agree he will win but he will not beat hardy standing.i have no doubt gsp will win big but i think it will be gnp

Look at this, all the people saying AJ is hyped up are now writing him off completely. Regardless of what he said to the reporters, it’s not like he was dominated. He rung koscheck’s bell a couple of times and had those punches been a little more accurate he probably would’ve won. His ground game was exposed, but he’s athletic and talented so he’ll go back to the drawing board and fill out those holes, come back, and probably knock out koscheck. Did you idiots write off GSP after he lost to Matt Hughes too?

I know Rogan goes on and on about how the gloves are at fault for the recent abundance of eyepokes, but I disagree. Why wouldn’t they eyepoke? Points are never deducted and it gives them a clear advantage for the rest of the fight. It’s always the same fighters, and the replays never look like accidents. Automatic point deductions will solve that problem real quick, not new gloves.

Kos was pissed about the knee and poke AJ twice and at least the second one was on purpose. He does have a better ground game than johnson but you can see where he straightens his fingers and lundges AJ’s eyes on the 2nd one. I think KOS should rematch Paulo Thiago is anything.

Kos didn’t get kneed in the eye — he got kneed in the arm. His arm then raked across/smashed his eye. Those of you who are fighters know what I’m talking about.

It’s still an illegal blow, and he had the right to take the time to recover.

Case closed.

my issue with Kos getting a title shot is that he hasn’t separated himself enough from the paulo tiago loss. i think he gets waaaay too many fights and that poses a problem because he fights on damn near every card, where as there is no other fighter that fights nearly as often as he does, certainly not in the WW division. so we’re fooled into thinking he deserves a shot because he has so many wins.
do i think hardy deserves one?no, but do i think he deserves one before kos? yup because he’s won his last four fights.
kos has won 2 fights since his loss (i believe), let him string off another 2 and maybe then.
ohh it was the poke in the eye that got him, not the illegal knee to the head.
rumble can blame eye pokes but when you get poked in the face twice every fight, maybe you shouldn’t stick your big ugly head out so often.

Aj got taken down by the guy who has possibly best shots, along with gsp.
That being said I doubt many will take aj down.
What I know is aj hit kos arm with the knee and his finger grazed kos forehead, if u play in slow mo, u can see it.
I also don’t think poke mattered, aj got subbed but definately not fotn or sotn

AJ is an exciting fighter but yeah he hasn’t really fought any top competition. First fight against a top guy and he was exposed a little bit on his lack of ground game. Didn’t take much effort by Kos to take his back and sink in the RNC. 13 secs left in the round, too.

Secondly, after suffering that loss, he needs to just shut up and go back in and work on his deficiencies. Any of the top guys are going to try and take him down until he shows he can deal with it. 2 fights now, Clementi and Koscheck shows he can’t.

It would be nice to see the UFC put Hardy and Kos together before the GSP fight. Hardy has been good but getting his shot a little too quick.

Did anyone else catch what really happen with the whole eye poke/knee thing? Am I the only one who seen that RIGHT BEFORE the illegal knee, johnson raped koscheks eye with his thumb? Rogan missed it and calling out kos for faking it shows that Rogan is an idiot. Rogan tries to act like he knows everything and thinks his opinion is always right on. But hey at least he knows the difference between a rear naked choke and a guillotine. WEC fans know what im talking about.

It wasn’t the illegal knee, OR the fingers brushing against Kos’ face after the knee – if you look very closely a few seconds before the knee Kos was on his hands & knees and Johnson jammed his right thumb in Kos’ left eye. Looked unintentional, but still f’ed up. I was stoned out of my gourd & even I saw that…