Josh Koscheck to fight Mike Pierce at UFC Fight Night 20

Beating Brock Larson immediately vaults you up to fighting Josh Koscheck!!!!

Rumored UFC Fight Night 20 Card Thus Far

Josh Koscheck (13-4) vs. Mike Pierce (9-1)
Efrain Escudero (12-0) vs. Nik Lentz (17-3)
Rory MacDonald (9-0) vs. Mike Guymon (11-2)
Tom Lawlor (6-1) vs. Aaron Simpson (6-0)

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Pierce deserves it.

And I try not to root, but I really hope he whoops that ass.

Pierce’s bread and butter is his GnP though, so Koscheck may be a bad matchup.

by Chris Nelson on Oct 16, 2009 9:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

And Efrain gets lower level opponents

after knocking Cole Millers block off. Grand.

"I will knock your hair black!"- Ken Shamrock to Tito Ortiz

by FutureChamp on Oct 16, 2009 9:15 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Lentz looked really good against Oliveira

and he’s more experienced than Cole Miller. I wouldn’t say it’s a much of a step down at all for Efrain.

by Scott Haber on Oct 16, 2009 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Name value.

Where does this win put him? Cole had a bit of a big name, but Lentz? Not a whole lot to gain from it. I wanna see him take on Mr. Guillard… : )

"I will knock your hair black!"- Ken Shamrock to Tito Ortiz

by FutureChamp on Oct 16, 2009 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well, they want to build Efrain up. They’re talking about hitting Mexico City in April, so they need him to get an impressive win right here.

by The Bronzeville Bully on Oct 16, 2009 11:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

So many exciting matchups for Kos, and this is what the UFC comes up with? Ugh.

And that is a sad looking card.

by Razzel on Oct 16, 2009 11:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Come on it's October

The card isn’t until January.

I bet you 2-3 of those fights end up on the prelims. The Simpson one for sure.

October 11th, 2009: The day Justin Forsett became loved by Seahawks fans forever.

by SSreporters on Oct 16, 2009 11:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That’s true.

by Razzel on Oct 17, 2009 12:42 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I think that the UFC probably wants to put Koscheck in Title contention and giving him Trigg and then Pierce, two fighters who on paper he should beat, will fast-track him to that. I’d say that the UFC will probably give Koscheck a top ten Welterweight after this fight (maybe the winner of Paul Daley vs Carlos Condit), or someone with a name like Karo Parisyan.
On paper, so far, this Fight Night doesn’t look as good as the most recent ones, but the UFC has pretty much shown that more often times than not, the fights can still be good or even great even though they looked below average on paper.

by chrisbboy82 on Oct 16, 2009 11:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, to be honest I can’t remember the last Fight Night that wasn’t full of great fights. I just think Kos is a big name who gets fed entirely too many no-name fighters. Maybe nobody wants to fight him except no-names?

by Razzel on Oct 17, 2009 12:45 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Dude

It’s a Fight Night that’s 3 months away with no main event announced. Calm the F down…

by GoldenOldie on Oct 17, 2009 12:25 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You can toss in Chris Leben vs. Jay Silva up here too.

by GoldenOldie on Oct 17, 2009 12:26 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

That should be a main card fight

October 11th, 2009: The day Justin Forsett became loved by Seahawks fans forever.

by SSreporters on Oct 17, 2009 12:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Me: “That is one sad looking card”

You: “Cam the F down.”

lol, ok….

by Razzel on Oct 17, 2009 12:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Perhaps we should learn to wait until the full line-up for a card

is announced, before calling it “sad” or lame".

Three of those four fights are likely to be prelims, and this happens every time the prelims get announced before the main card fights do.

I remember back when UFC 103 was in its early stages with only Kampmann-Swick, Griffin-Franca, and Miller-Escudero announced, and people were calling for Joe Silva’s head, and demanding that the event be demoted to a Fight Night.

UFC events these days have 11-12 fights, folks…let’s wait until we learn about more than four of them before we start complaning.

by Scott Haber on Oct 17, 2009 2:16 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs