Josh Koscheck Signs 20 Month Contract Extension With the UFC
by nk on Jan 15, 2009 7:06 PM EST
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According to mmamania.com Josh Koscheck has signed a 20 month contract extension. This will reportedly keep him with the promotion until 2011.
via mmamania.com
Recently questions have risen regarding the future of the former colligate wrestling champion with the UFC. His management team at American Kickboxing Academy had a well documented dispute with the UFC over likeness rights for UFC Undisputed, the UFC's video game.
Josh Koscheck also says he wants six times in 2009. This would explain why he has been fighting competition that is not quite at the same level.
“I want to fight five to six times this year — I’ll be very unhappy if the UFC can’t get me fights,” he said. “I am happy to be back and I’m ready to fight.”
Personally, I have never been a Koscheck fan. But I have to tell you I love his gameness here. Also, I like his willingness not to let the business part of the game affect his professional career.
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That's like 16 more fights.
Brad Ziegler had a scoreless inning streak. Brad Ziegler had not met BJ Upton.
by P Brady on Jan 15, 2009 7:38 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
hate all you want
but the guy is evolving as a fighter…goof for him
Kos was EXTREMELY unpopular, even among many hardcore fans, for a long time. It’s dissipated somewhat, especially since he doesn’t come across as a cocky little shit much these days, but it’s not gone.
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
I understand that, I still don’t like the guy. But I was wondering where the hate was in the article, that banter was referring to. I don’t think anyone who dislikes him as ever said that he can’t fight.
But I was wondering where the hate was in the article, that banter was referring to
I wasn’t referring to the article…its just every single story, blog post or forum post about him turns into hate. Are you seriously pretending like people haven’t said bad stuff about him over and over?
I don’t think anyone who dislikes him as ever said that he can’t fight.
read more old posts about him
Those are also in the past
and Josh Koscheck has changed a lot from when he first started out in the UFC. He was an arrogant prick when he first started but he’s grown up and has become an awesome competitor.
I’m not going to “hate” on him, I respect the guy and I will cheer for him now due to the fact he has grown up. People can grow to like these guys if they keep an open mind but it isn’t fair to assume that everyone is going to “hate on him” before anyone has really said a word.
by Gunslinger20 on Jan 16, 2009 11:45 PM EST up reply actions
Good news... but...
UFC hasn’t done contracts like that with fighters. They sign them for a certain number of fights, not time periods. Case and point, Randy Couture.
I didn’t know they did time-specific contracts, what with injuries and all.
by Derek Suboticki on Jan 16, 2009 12:06 AM EST reply actions
i think the contract could be bad for fighters if it is just time periods..
Im not an expert or anything and i haven’t seen the contract.. But If they dont like you, maybe they can just shelf you till your contract runs out.
So hopefully its time periods with a guaranteed minimum number of fights, then that would be a really good thing because the fighter/promoter could choose to fight several times a year like what kos wants..
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My memory of the Couture contract,
at least what I heard of it from here and elsewhere on the web, was it consisted of both total fights and a time period. So it was like four fights within a three year period, and if the four fights occurred prior to the time limitation then the contract was concluded with the end of the final fight. Something like that, anyways.
Seems like the only way to actually DO a fighter contract.
There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
They’ve done that for a while, that’s why Arlovski went so long without a fight.
About injuries, if you’re too injured to fight, that time doesn’t count against the contract. The time period is how long the company has to offer you X amount of fights, you aren’t finished until you do all of the fights.
The agents really should be signing contacts that go at about a 3/yr pace. Even if you don’t want to fight 3 times a year, it’s still a good pace so you don’t get to a spot where you have 1 year and 1 fight left on our deal, that would put you in a bad spot.
Does anyone know if he ever signed the game contract? I recall him saying that he wouldn’t, but haven’t heard anything afterwards. It would be very interesting if he got this deal even tho he didn’t sign.
I have no doubt that he signed the agreement.
by Blackout612 on Jan 16, 2009 11:29 PM EST up reply actions
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