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Even in victory, Josh Koscheck managed to officially become one of the greatest MMA heels of all time on Saturday night, first with his apparent acting job following Paul Daley‘s illegal knee attempt, and then with his kiss-off to the Montreal crowd, vowing that the Penguins would defeat the Canadiens in the NHL Eastern Conference semi-finals, and that he would whoop their beloved GSP when they meet later this year.
In this post-fight interview with Ariel Helwani, Koscheck explains that his emotions got the better of him, and he’s sorry for his behavior during and after the fight. Just kidding! Instead, Kos makes a number of bold statements, few of which will endear him to the fans:
— Despite what the replay showed, he didn’t fake getting hit by that illegal knee: "He hit me with something when I was down, I don’t know if it was a knee, fist or what, but I got hit pretty hard. I could have quit, and I got up and kept fighting."
— Daley fought dirty even before the sucker-punch: "He started eye-gounging me, and first off, the guy’s a blatant cheater, he had oil all over him…I could smell it from the beginning."
— Koscheck admits to fighting safely against Daley. "The gameplan was to be conservative, get the victory any way I could, take him down, wrestle, go back to the old school a little bit. I had a lot riding on this fight, and I played it conservative and had to get the victory."
— Due to some unspecified personal issues, "it was the toughest training camp of my life."
— He compares his gameplan to St. Pierre’s against Dan Hardy: "I watched that fight 25, 30 times. Georges is a good wrestler, and I wanted to show my wrestling tonight." In other words, Koscheck has already spent up to 15 hours watching that awful fight. Now that’s dedication. His fight against GSP is going to be one of most polarizing Heel vs. Face matchups in UFC history. But will the lead-up be more entertaining than the fight itself?








saw that the next day too... totally legit, i posted the same thing a while back when someone brought that eye poke.... but trust dude... youll understand once you see, its infuriating. rogan even repeated over and over, "koscheck might wanna see the replay before he continues this"
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did
not
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that being said.... is anyone else have a snowball of respect growing for meathead. hes..part retarded-slash-perfectly crazy. the way he was portrayed on TUF10 was pretty painful and hard to support. but, i really like his slow stupid funny reactions to the medias questions. and there is no lying in him. he has done what he said he was going to do every time. someone the other night was giving him the business because he couldnt finish any of those sub attempts. frankly i was impressed its his 2nd fight in the UFC and he was even getting some legit attempts in. im not saying hes the new great hope, nothing of the sort, just merely cataloging that my opinion of him has taken a large swing of late. anyone with me?
youre right, probably just me