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04-30-2012, 09:59 AM
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|  UFC on FOX 3's Hendricks: Koscheck most important step up welterweight ladder
UFC on FOX 3's Hendricks: Koscheck most important step up welterweight ladder | MMAjunkie.com Quote:
Josh Koscheck's public attitude toward Johny Hendricks reeks of the entitlement veterans express with young upstarts who might take their jobs.
During a press conference promoting UFC on FOX 3, he made light of the up-and-comer's 12-second knockout of Jon Fitch and said Hendricks closed his eyes and threw a "lucky punch."
Koscheck (17-5 MMA, 15-5 UFC) was vague about Hendricks' wrestling achievements and said his opponent was a "couple-time national wrestling champion" – at the same time he said their fight at UFC on FOX 3 would be a fight for the "pride of wrestling."
He told this "kid" he would be no stepping stone on the way to welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre or interim champ Carlos Condit.
Hendricks (12-1 MMA, 7-1 UFC), a two-time NCAA Division I champion at Oklahoma State University, would expect nothing less from the onetime UFC welterweight title challenger when they meet Saturday at UFC on FOX 3, which takes place at IZOD Center in East Rutherford, N.J. Hendricks vs. Koscheck is on the FOX-televised main card following prelims on FUEL TV.
"I think he might have been playing dumb, which is OK with me," he told MMAjunkie.com Radio (MMAjunkie.com Radio | MMAjunkie.com). "I hope that he doesn't know anything about me, but I really hope that he is focused on me."
Because yes, he wants Koscheck's job.
"If you can't get the title shot, Josh Koscheck's right there," he said. "Here's the thing: Who's fought GSP? Josh and Fitch have fought him at least once, and Josh fought him twice. So I can go out there and see where I stand against somebody like that."
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"You're only as good as your last fight, and this is fight is my most important one so far because if I go out there and do good, people are going to remember that," Hendricks said of the Fitch win. "If I go out there and flop, people will be like, 'It was a lucky punch.'"
That said, the knockout was the culmination of hours and hours of effort in the gym. Believe it or not, Hendricks once considered himself a slow starter.
"I think we have addressed it pretty good," he said. "That's really what I want to make sure I do this fight, from the very get-go. As soon as [the referee] says, 'Are you ready?' (I want to) get it done – go in there and fight and see what happens."
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04-30-2012, 07:31 PM
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PLEASE do to Koscheck what you did to Fitch... but even quicker and more violent.
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04-30-2012, 07:41 PM
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War kos baby!!
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05-01-2012, 06:27 AM
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Kos seems really burnt out on fighting. He looked awful in his last fight, and he didn't look that good against Hughes until he landed a power shot. Hendricks looks like an improved version of Kos to me, younger and hungrier.
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05-01-2012, 06:47 AM
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Kos gets put to sleep in RD 2
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05-01-2012, 07:17 AM
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I'm really pulling for Hendricks here.
I can't remember the last time Koscheck beat a solidly ranked opponent...?
Was Daley even ranked? He wasn't a solid ranking if he was, and that was a horrible fight.
AJ? I don't remember him ever being ranked.
I might have to go all the way back to Sanchez, when people still thought Diego could be great.
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05-01-2012, 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted by rivethead  I'm really pulling for Hendricks here.
I can't remember the last time Koscheck beat a solidly ranked opponent...?
Was Daley even ranked? He wasn't a solid ranking if he was, and that was a horrible fight.
AJ? I don't remember him ever being ranked.
I might have to go all the way back to Sanchez, when people still thought Diego could be great.
rh | Daley was definitely ranked, he stayed in the lower rungs of the top 10 for a while after that fight. But still, 2 top 10 wins in a guys entire career when he has 5 losses on his record does not inspire images of a top 5 WW.
It always blew me away that a guy who is 2-3 when fighting top 10 competition can be a perennial top 3 at WW.
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05-01-2012, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by goodtimes Daley was definitely ranked, he stayed in the lower rungs of the top 10 for a while after that fight. But still, 2 top 10 wins in a guys entire career when he has 5 losses on his record does not inspire images of a top 5 WW.
It always blew me away that a guy who is 2-3 when fighting top 10 competition can be a perennial top 3 at WW. | Perennial Top 3??
What rankings have you been looking at? Koscheck has always been a Top 10 WW but not perennial top 3. Maybe right now he can be considered around the top 3 but the only time I think he has been ranked that high was right after he beat Diego and even then I think he might have been 4 or 5.
The biggest problem with WW is a lot of the Top 10 guys have not really fought each other over history. Fitch never fought Shields or Koscheck. Koscheck never fought Penn or Diaz. Shields never fought Alves or Sanchez. So the rankings at WW have always been tougher because we do not get those head to head battles we see at other weight classes.
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