Josh Koscheck Off UFC 109 With Injury, Mike Swick In
by Nick Thomas on Dec 28, 2009 9:55 PM EST
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According to mmafighting.com:
Josh Koscheck has been forced to pull out of his UFC 109 bout against Paulo Thiago due to an undisclosed injury. The bout was scheduled to take place on Feb. 6.
At this time, it is unknown how long Koscheck will be out for. Thiago, meanwhile, will remain on the card, however, the UFC has yet to sign a replacement to fight the Brazilian.
UPDATE: Mike Swick will step in for his teammate and face Paulo Thiago at UFC 109
HT: mmafighting.com
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Thats what you get for wanting to fight 12 times a year.
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering BROCKLESNAR; to the last I grapple with thee.
Kos got scared for getting KO'd by Sam Eagle again.
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@deowade
got scared of*
Frozen Daquiri + a heavy dose of Black Seal Rum = typos galore.
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strong man to admit to daquiries in winter
by Austin Martin on Dec 28, 2009 8:26 PM EST up reply actions
If I like it, I'll eat or drink it all year round.
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@deowade
A Daquiri eh?....
MAS P#%O!
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by poundnground on Dec 28, 2009 9:29 PM EST up reply actions
Say what you will, but anything with this in it will get you lit pretty quickly.
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Um because White Rum fucks up my stomach and...I'm black lol
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Smuggled back some 151 Proof when I went to Bermuda in August.
Instant Liver Damage. The Bas Rutten of Rums.
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@deowade
Talk about not giving Paulo Thiago a break
If Paulo Thiago ends up fighting Alves, then it really shows that he just can’t catch a break in the UFC. Even fighting Volkmann, Volkmann was a pretty highly touted prospect and not just some scrub and not an easy win for Paulo Thiago. Paulo Thiago gets no love at all, so good for him for making the best and doing as well as he has considering who he has fought.
Koscheck needs to rest or something. While I am not a big fan of his, I do respect that he wants to fight as much as he can and takes fights on short notice a lot. I look forward to an eventual Josh Koscheck vs Dan Hardy matchup.
He hurt his thumb talking too much shit on twitter.
by bignerd on Dec 28, 2009 8:09 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Thought it was over?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!
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by Ubernoober on Dec 28, 2009 8:15 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Kos tweets:
Well the news is out. I am not fighting feb 6 UFC 109. Do due to injury. I will be good to go back to training in a couple weeks I hope!!
It’s all good & I’ll get my body rested & back to the top real soon. Keep checking my Twitter & I’ll post news on my recovery.
"My diet is like Atkins, but with the carbs." - BJ Penn
This card never had Vera/Jones
when Lil Nog got hurt, they scrapped his fight with Vera altogether and set up Vera-Jones for the Colorado UFN in March.
It was first rumored for this card
but never announced.
the more Kos is out of the picture the better…he won’t fight Fitch and he can’t beat GSP. He is the uber-heel gatekeeper of the 170lb division.
with the trigg domination, rumble domination, this rematch win, and one more win i could see myself watchin a kos/ gsp rematch
by Austin Martin on Dec 28, 2009 8:28 PM EST up reply actions
Randy is now the most reliable-injury free guy in the UFC.
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Good
This rematch was pointless to have just a year later. Both guys should be built up.
Correction
This rematch was pointless to have just a year later.Both guysPaulo Thiago should be built up.
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It is fucking hilarious that Randy Couture is the UFC’s most frequent fighter right now.
by Polyh3dron on Dec 28, 2009 8:40 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
I'm tellin ya..
Logan and Natasha getting fired for possibly voicing their opinion about the Koschek/Johnson fight. Then he gets an “undisclosed injury” before the fight. Something suspicious is goin on…
Sorry…had to bite it
Arianny got pissed at Karo, and look at what happened to him...
Kos called Logan and Arianny Dog Shit, and then this…
moral lesson: don’t piss off the octagon girls..
by Anton Tabuena on Dec 29, 2009 1:42 AM EST up reply actions
why did Arianny get pissed @ Karo?
by I Can't Feel My Face on Dec 29, 2009 5:23 AM EST up reply actions
So what’s his injury if he’ll be back training in two weeks? Infection? Contract-unhappi-itis?
Being overrated is overrated.
Mike Swick has agreed to step in for his injured American Kickboxing Academy teammate Josh Koscheck on short notice and face Paulo Thiago (12-1) at UFC 109 on Feb. 6.
MMAFighting.com learned of the new bout after reporting Koscheck’s decision to pull out of his scheduled fight against Thiago earlier Monday.
Swick (14-3) last competed at UFC 105, losing to Dan Hardy via unanimous decision. The loss marked his first since dropping down to welterweight in 2008.
"My diet is like Atkins, but with the carbs." - BJ Penn
I like this fight a lot more for Paulo.
Much better matchup than Koscheck, and now he will have fought all three AKA welterweights.
Swick showed a lot of vulnerability against Hardy’s striking. Paulo hits like a brick, has been bulking up over the past year, and has been polishing his hands. If he has the killer instinct instead of walking away after a big punch, I can see him rocking Swick and finishing in the second.
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The question is, if he handles Swick on the feet, does Swick take it to the ground? He won’t have much of an advantage there
certainly not, thiago had fitch in a deep sub, fitch is just a tough bastard thiago would have a significant advantage on the ground
by Austin Martin on Dec 28, 2009 9:09 PM EST up reply actions
Remember he is first and foremost a jiujitsu fighter.
who happens to have crazy knockout power at his weight. More than half of Paulo’s wins are by submission. He did pretty well threatening Fitch by stringing sub attempts and Swick doesn’t have Fitch’s toughness or skill. The things I see as being potential problems for Paulo in this fight are reach and his fading gas tank. If he fixes his cardio in his new build, he’s gonna be a much more potent force than people give him credit for.
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i was thinking this too
He could very well be the 170 lb version of Thiago Silva, but I think he’d be well served to go a more technical direction with his striking
We're just a million little gods causin' rain storms, turning every good thing to rust.
by Anthony Pace on Dec 28, 2009 10:21 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Do you really think he has great KO power? Outside of the shot he landed on Kos I dont think he has shown tremendous power in his hands.
How about when he floored Volkmann in the first?
His nickname in Brazil is Hands of Stone. It’s a little cliche in the US so they didn’t bring it over, but he’s got dynamite in his hands.
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Interesting, considering he only had one TKO win in his career before Kos, and that was via injury.
"My diet is like Atkins, but with the carbs." - BJ Penn
I didn't make the name
nor have I been punched by him. I’m reporting what I’ve heard from the promoters and trainers I’ve spoken with. Well, the one’s I believe at least…
"Someone is WRONG on the internet. What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!"
-Randall Munroe
Its not as far-fetched as you think. From whatever angle you look at it, Silva hasnt really faced ppl with BJ’s chin and Paulo knocked out a fairly stout guy in Kos, so I think its apropos to make the comparison
We're just a million little gods causin' rain storms, turning every good thing to rust.
by Anthony Pace on Dec 28, 2009 10:52 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
You won't be able to reason with him.
His Tin Foil Hat blocks everything out.
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by Damon O. on Dec 28, 2009 10:59 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Swick would win, he has long googly arms, and Thiago doesn’t punch as hard as Hardy.
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anyone else thinks the UFC might put too many fights on?
Not that I am complaining, but could all these injuries coming from pressure to fill these cards and not letting these guys really take some time off?
I was just about to write this
Are these injuries the result of UFC’s schedule?
Is it reasonable to expect the human body to hold up fighting 3 maybe 4 fights a year for a 3/4 time span? The training is grueling and the schedule makes it a year round sport for these guys.
Kos is a guy who is all gung-ho about fighting constantly.
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yep
Both Little Nog and Kos fought at UFC 106 a mere month a go or so.
I know we as fans want to see the top guys all the time, but you can’t train then fight then go straight back to training and not expected to get hurt. The body is not meant to go through that.
The flip side is asking if training camps are too long.
The long camp used to be a function of cards not being frequent enough to get guys fights quickly. Now it’s more like a habit. With so much heavy training time, injuries are bound to happen regularly.
Not sure if even I believe this, but it’s something I’m mulling over.
"Someone is WRONG on the internet. What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!"
-Randall Munroe
This is a valid point too. Even if the promotion isn’t filling up their schedule these guys are training 24/7 on their own.
The question still is how long these guys can maintain that sort of schedule. Time off does the body good. It’s such a young sport, this could be a growing pain. Never has a promotion been able to put on such an expanded schedule and never has there been such an opportunity for so many train full time.
UFC has 250+ fighters. 10% get hurt.... you should expect more than that because they're
in the gym all the time. They train but also help their friends train so it’s not such a surprise.
The only surprise is that they only got injuried in groups.
by snakecharmer1340 on Dec 28, 2009 9:11 PM EST up reply actions
How many of these guys are actually fighting 3-4 times a year?
If you went through case by case, I suspect most of the guys who were injured would have been on schedule for 2-3 fights in a year. GSP, Lesnar, Gonzaga, Nogueira, Alves, Tyson Griffin, Markham, Duffee, all were on pace for 3 or fewer fights over the course of a single year.
You have enough trials, eventually, all hell breaks loose over one sequence. This is just a really bad run for the UFC, not a symptom of overuse. If anything, the UFC has cut back on scheduling fighters.
by Michaelthebox on Dec 29, 2009 2:08 AM EST up reply actions
Pretty sure he’s not even cleared to train yet.
by ufc4 on Dec 28, 2009 9:42 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
It’s getting crazy… you’re gonna have to eliminate drug testing, have every fighter training all the time, and announce the fights the week of the event.
Ah, dontcha just miss the good ole days with Pride…
by mmalogic on Dec 28, 2009 9:26 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Sounds like a Strikeforce card.
by ufc4 on Dec 28, 2009 9:43 PM EST via mobile up reply actions 2 recs
Sounds like any MMA event in the past 6 months.
by MMASuPreMaCy on Dec 29, 2009 1:26 AM EST up reply actions
Pride Matchmaking:
1 You have a big board with pictures of half your available fighters on it. You have a bunch of darts with pictures of the other half of your available fighters on them
2 Drink 6 saki bombs and start throwing darts everywhere.
3 Put all the ones that didn’t hit anything into the OWGP
4 ???
5 Profit
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by Ubernoober on Dec 28, 2009 11:31 PM EST up reply actions 7 recs
Didn’t Swick step in for someone else not that long ago? Or was it that he himself got hurt and someone replaced him? Can’t remember.
by Monday Morning Martial Artist on Dec 29, 2009 6:06 AM EST reply actions
He got hurt and Paul Daley replaced him… now he’s got a replacement as an opponent, Mick Swick is replacing Josh Koschek, and Josh will probably be replacing another fighter who has yet to get injured – but we know he will…
And it’s just one big orgy of replacements
by mmalogic on Dec 29, 2009 7:30 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
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