
In just a few moments the fighters on the UFC 69 pay-per-view (PPV) card will step on the scales for tomorrow’s show.
To watch it online as-it-happens just click here for a few links and some other details about the event in Houston, Texas.
I’ll fill-in the official weight of each fighter when it is announced.
Man, Diego just shoved Koscheck hard! He was talking some mad shit but couldn’t make any of it out.
Koscheck almost flew off the stage. Tomorrow is going to be nuts.
Here are the results:
Georges St. Pierre (169.5) vs. Matt Serra (169.5)
Diego Sanchez (168.5) vs. Josh Koscheck (170.5)
Mike Swick (184) vs. Yushin Okami (184)
Kendall Grove (185.5) vs. Alan Belcher (184)
Roger Huerta (155) vs. Leonard Garcia (154.5)
Heath Herring (245) vs. Brad Imes (260.5)
Thales Leites (186) vs. Pete Sell (186)
Pete Spratt () vs. Marcus Davis ()
Luke Cummo (170) vs. Josh Haynes (171)
Possibly have some good news about tomorrow’s event — one of our loyal readers has expressed an interest in live blogging during the show.
It’s a personal choice of mine not to do it even though many readers are interested in it. But, if I can get someone onboard who can do a solid job, I think it will be a nice new wrinkle on the site.
I’ll let you know later on this evening or tomorrow on what — or what not to — expect.
Here’s some amateur footage of the push:
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MAN I NEVER LIKED KOSCHECK BUT I HOPE HE KILLS DIEGO SANCHEZ, WHAT A MORON THAT KID IS !
Where was is Yoga Calm’ stuff then? He shoulda sparked one before the weigh in…
I couldn’t see the weight ins on my computer, dont know why. I watched it on yahoo last time dont know why it didn’t work, very disappointing, I was waiting for hours to watch it.
I don’t like either fighter, but Diego is smart in what he’s doing. He making Josh so pissed that he will come into the fight all jacked up on emotion and he will make a mistake and it will cost him the fight…ala Melvin Guillard.
Diego is a prick man talk about letting stuff go to your head. It dosen’t make the sport look good when you do stuff like that.
Diego Sanchez continues to show his true colors as fake, insecure, and small minded individual. What happened to all his Chi? Or Chai? Or Cha? Or whatever the middle aged MILF yoga instructors call it. Here we have a guy who openly parades into his matches praying with hands in the air and calling upon his inner peace for all to witness. It has always been my contention that true prayer is done in private, on your knees. Not in front of a TV audience.
Does anyone else find it ironic that this kid shows no self control by pushing an opponent in anger/fear at a weigh in, while at the same time, trying to sell an image of true spirituality and inner peace? To me this is the ultimate front. I hope Josh knocks this guys head out of his a#$. He needs it.
Damn I Like both fighters. They both have great talent. The whole bad blood between them makes the fight the more intresting. I just hope they give us a 3 round battle instead of a 15 second knock out or submission. I just saw the weigh ins and damn that’s probably the first time someone pushes their oppononent.
[quote comment=”28042″]It dosen’t make the sport look good when you do stuff like that.[/quote]
I agree and that is something I disliked about all Shamrock-Ortiz bouts - every fight had a press conference where those guys called each other out (it showed that both have been in the Pro Wrestling world) and it makes the UFC and MMA altogether look really silly like some 2nd class WWE/WWF or whatever they call themselves.
he was saying “do you want a piece of me” I hope Kos kicks his ass
Excellent post YouTapped. I couldn’t agree more! This looks like a Damn Don King Promotion. He should be fined or something. Things like that just destroy the sports credibility.
I agree that it was definitly good sportsmanship and doesn’t reflect to well on diego, but this is a violent sport and if two guys have real problems with each other this stuff will happen. But honestly who cares, Koscheck is a tool. Just watchv TUF season 1, he’s cocky, ignorant and full of shit. Diego not the greatest guy in the world but if you’ve watched TUF 1 and like or relate to koscheck in any way youre probably a douch bag, he’s a good fighter I’ll give you that but as a overall person he sucks. Hope Diego boxes his face in.
Either way Im in. And I dont suggest Diego shoves GSP whenever they do fight. He would put him in a key lock before he could say “pass the blunt”.
Sanchez is a killer like him or not, its selling ppv cause before all this stuff went down I weren’t going to order it but now I might. This card sucked had to spice it up a little.
Man i jut got back from the weigh-ins, I really pumped for the Kos fight he was taking shit to diegos body gaurds. in the back of the tent after he got shoved. That fight is going to be a war.
[quote comment=”28041″]I don’t like either fighter, but Diego is smart in what he’s doing. He making Josh so pissed that he will come into the fight all jacked up on emotion and he will make a mistake and it will cost him the fight…ala Melvin Guillard.[/quote]
THATS EXACTLY WHAT HES DOING, HES PROBALY TRYING TO GET kOS TO CHARGE HIM WITH THOSE WIDE PUNCHES SO HE CAN COUNTER, AND END IT QWICK
THIS IS GONNA BE A WAR
That was fuck’n stupid on Diego’s part. If Kos would of fell down and hurt something or twisted an ankle and not have been able to compete, Diego would have looked like a complete idiot. And he probably would have been fined a shit load of money.
anyone know when the weigh-in will be replayed or if it is on U tube yet??, I forgot to setup the DVR and I dont see it on UFC’s site
Never really liked koscheck after watching the ultimate figher show but I really hope he hands Diego his ass. What a P***k he is. All that spirituality bull***t and then he goes and does something like this. He should take a leaf out of GSP’s book, he was shook Danas hand and then Matts before the stare down. He is a class act.
Look I know guys hate Diego for what hes doing and its not classy at all. BUT, its smart as hell.
Why not piss him off as much as possible??? Everyone knows Koz is much better on the ground, so why not try to get in his head and make him try to come out and stand to prove his manhood???
When Nick Diaz was talking shit on Diego he stayed quiet and respectful b/c he knew that was Diaz’s game to get in your head and make you come out swinging and he didnt bite. Now hes trying to do the same with Koz.
All you guys hating on Diego for acting like this have a great point hes being a dick, but theres a method behind the madness. We all know MMA is just as much mental as it is physical if not even more mental than ne thing.
I think its slick move my the Nightmare.
If KOS can’t take a push, then what makes you think he can take a punch. KNOCK HIS ASS OUT DIEGO!!!
Somehow I don’t think koscheck was expecting that push but anyways I just watched in on internet explorer, I tried it on firefox and could’nt view it but could on internet explorer. Mayberry you can watch it again if you missed it, I went to ufc.com and it was there again. Diego is out of his mind, if koscheck wins, it will make him look that much worse.
NO WAY IN HELL THAT KOS HAS A CHANCE!!!
thanks nathan, gonna check it out now
hahahahahahahahahahaahah, i love it, its fighting people, these guys fight, thats what they do, they don’t need to project any kind of image, you guys love it when rampage drops the f bomb twelve times an interview, but a little push sets some of you guys off like its the end of the world, it makes me want to watch the fight more, if thats possible…its gonna get a lot worse than that for koscheck come tomorrow night, there’s nothing here to complain or whine about, only shit to get excited about, cmon guys we are watching ultimate fighting right?
not everyone is gonna act like gsp or randy couture, the sport needs bad guys just like it needs good guys…and there is no reason to question the mans faith in god just because he acted out of anger(not fear), thats what makes us human, he’s pissed and acting on emotion…koscheck has done nothing but disrespect diego and his family for weeks now, and like i said its gonna get a lot worse than that for this clown, i hope diego chokes him til big john has to have help to pull him off, kick his f’ing ass diego, send this mother fucker back to the spike shows and undercards where he belongs…
If koscheck doesn’t have a chance then why is he leading the poll “Who pulls the upset special at UFC 69?” by a mile? I guess a few pollsters think its possible.
I voted koscheck too by the way, even though I think sanchez will probably win.
not everyone is gonna act like gsp or randy couture, the sport needs bad guys just like it needs good guys…and there is no reason to question the mans faith in god just because he acted out of anger(not fear), thats what makes us human, he’s pissed and acting on emotion…koscheck has done nothing but disrespect diego and his family for weeks now, and like i said its gonna get a lot worse than that for this clown, i hope diego chokes him til big john has to have help to pull him off, kick his f’ing ass diego, send this mother f’er back to the spike shows and undercards where he belongs…
i totally agree w/u spida… go diego go…
Why can’t they show the weigh-ins live on spike? I think that they could sell more ppv getting people fired up watching something like that, especially when they are really fired up.
Looks like more pre-game hype to sell ppv to me…
that was pretty awesome………adds alot of excitement and interest in the fight for me.
on the blog - I dont really believe a push at weigh-ins is bad for the sports image, maybe diego’s but not MMA in general. If it errupted into a full out brawl then yeah bad for the image…..but I agree with spida - that was all good.
Anyway, hope the emotions envolved doesnt lead to a quick fight, want these two go to war for at least 2 rounds!
Imagine if Kos did get injured, Diego would be on Dana’s bad side. Diego looked a picture when he was on the scales, it was just a matter of time before he did some crazy shit. Totally out of character for diego, maybe he never had his pre-match spliff. I hope Kos dose win because Diego needs a loss on his record just to keep him quite for a couple of weeks.
Damn! Diego looks like he was gonna swing on him right there. I’m glad he didn’t hit him cause they would probably cancel the fight but damn diego should definatly get a fine or something, if not it seems like diego gets away with murder what with that pot charge and all.
it looked like koscheck was raising his hand right before he got pushed, maybe diego saw that as a sign of aggression and reacted naturally as a fighter would…
nevermind that was dana white’s hand, but koscheck kept walking closer and closer to diego…
It shows what a punk sanchez is. I hope KOS knocks his ass out
Boys will be boys.
I WOULD HAVE TO AGREE WITH THE SPIDA ITA A FIGHT.SO LETS FIGHT,YEAH IT COULD HAVE SOME NEGATIVE REACTIONS BUT STILL ITS ENTERTAINMENT AND ITS ALL GOOD.KOS WASN’T EXCEPTING IT BUT IF HE WAS HE WOULD OF STILL STOOD THERE AN TOOK IT LIKE THE BITCH HE IS LETS GO POTHEAD…100…
I think if sanchez doesn’t ko or submit koscheck, koscheck will win the decision if it goes that far. I just hope koscheck has really worked on his submission defense and is careful when he goes in for the shoot so we get a good 2 to 3 round war. Something tells me sanchez is the one who will be swinging wildly and making mistakes in this fight, I guess we’ll find out tomorrow.
This is so dumb. I really think Diego has water on his brain.
diego was telling kos to take his glasses off - kos was wearing glasses and had an MP3 and diego was getting pissed off because kos wouldnt look him in the eyes and diego just snapped. i reckon it was a good idea from koscheck- just piss the guy off and it worked.
if someone is staring at you thru glasses (esp in that situation) you cant read their eyes- like you cant get a pre fight advantage. thats huge for some fighters (like mike tyson for example) and diego prob felt a little pissed like kos wasnt respecting him.
rashad evans i notice really gets in his opponents face before a fight (lambert and salmon).
just pre fight psychology- helps some people to get an early edge on their opponent.
ANOTHER VIDEO ON THE PUSH - A STEADY VIDEO SHOT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZelwOh6NmIo
I HOPE IT’S A DRAW - I’D LOVE FOR BOTH OF THEM TO LOOSE - A COUPLE OF TOOLS.
I actually think he’s in Kos’s head…being completely insane could have something to do with it…
You guys ALL have it wrong!
The push was all planned. Do you really think any of these guys do anything but promote UFC? Harsh words here and there. “Bad Blood” “Grudge Match”…blah blah blah.
Diego pushes and raises the hype for this PPV. No one is even talking about GSP/Serra
It’s all a sham guys. It’s all about money.
Diego will win. Kos has superior wrestling and thats it. Diego is too versed in everything and will exploit anything Kos reveals as a weakness.
Hey guys! I dislike both fighters attitudes, but like some of you said thats what makes the sport popular. I think the only reason Diego pushed him is due to he was in front of so many Mexicans. Young Mexicans have pride issues, and I believe that he has an insecurity about how his Mexican fans see him. As far as praying when he gets in the ring, that is gay. I really think Diego is a mad scientist in the ring, but I hate him. I really hope Kos walks in and puts Diego on his back and ground and pounds his face un-tell Diego submits by strikes. It probably will not happen like that, but that would be my perfect fight.
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Chris
[quote comment=”28371″]You guys ALL have it wrong!
The push was all planned. Do you really think any of these guys do anything but promote UFC? Harsh words here and there. “Bad Blood” “Grudge Match”…blah blah blah.
Diego pushes and raises the hype for this PPV. No one is even talking about GSP/Serra
It’s all a sham guys. It’s all about money.
Diego will win. Kos has superior wrestling and thats it. Diego is too versed in everything and will exploit anything Kos reveals as a weakness.[/quote]
I doubt the Push was planned by anyone but Diego and his camp. Look at Dana’s face when it happened, he looked like he was going to shit his pants. Oh and not that you are completely wrong, in MMA that scenario could happen, but I think your honestly underestimating Kos, and his skills. I think he has improved as much as Diego, do I think it is enough, probably not, but we will see.
Later
Chris
kos is gonna win for sure
diego is overrated and an asshole
Dudes i hung out with some guys that train with Grove, and they told me that they were in new mexico with DS and he told them that he was going to do pus him or slaping him. So i really think that it was planed by DS already knew what he was going to do.
Diego should have saved it for the octogan, but Josh is a smug, mouthy, arrogant wanker who’s been talking crap about Diego for ages, so I could care less that he got shoved. Knock him out Diego.
looks like deigo tripped after the push and fell on his ass
NOT TAKING ANY THING AWAY FROM KOS BUT HE IS A GREAT WRESTLER BUT FIGHTING AGANIST SOMEONE WHO IS WELL ROUNDED ITS GOING TO BE TUFF FOR BOTH FIGHTERS IPREDICT THAT IT WILL BE LIKE GSP VS HUGES AND THE BEST FIGHTER WILL WIN
[quote comment=”28452″]Dudes i hung out with some guys that train with Grove, and they told me that they were in new mexico with DS and he told them that he was going to do pus him or slaping him. So i really think that it was planed by DS already knew what he was going to do.[/quote]
THANKS JIMMYY FOR THE INSIDE INFO.
Who knows what all went on behind scenes. If I remember correctly Kos on season 1 was an asshole to Leban even after Leben tried to get away from all the trouble, Kos was a prick. All I do know is that Sanchez is an MMA Machine, very good at eveything. Kos is a really good athlete, very good at picking a person up and laying on them. Diego has answers and can reverse any thing Kos will through at him. If Sanchez can reverse any of Diaz’s and Parysians throughs and submissions than reversing wrestling will be a piece cake. As wierd and stupid Sanchez seems, he is an animal. Kos might be able to get a lucky punch on the button but other than that Kos is several levels lower an MMA fighter than most people in his class and even at 155. He should seriously go to Cage Rage or some other organization with lesser compitition.
we’ll see what happens!
very well said grey, tha spida agrees 100 percent…
-Mike
Excellent post. Who would Jesus, Buddha, or the MILFy Yoga Instructor push?
It looks like “Mr. Spirituality” is running low on spirituality.
It looked to me that kos has a plan up his sleeve. Alot of fighters try and keep focused so they don’t get to caught up in the moment, maybe lose there game plan.
Diego could be angry but its obvious hes scared, scared as hell he didnt stand his ground he backed off and actually pushed himself back farther than kos. Diegeo was my favorite since tuf1 it was great to watch the two fight then. Diego knew it was an accomplishment to beat kos then mainly cause he stopped everytakedown attempt of kos.
I was kind of impressed with diegos smokescreen of all his spirituality bs i thought he was for real, hes becoming such an egomaniac, arrogant,ill mannered and unlikeable.
kos was a dick to leben on tuf1 but leben was the egomaniac then that diego has become. i really dont see how anyone can blame kos for anything he did on tuf1, except the punch he hit diego with when ref seperated them that was cheapshot.
i personally hope they have a close fight but really beat the crap out of each other and i mean visually both with black eyes busted noses, leaving something for both to consider.
since im a diego fan i want him to win but hope josh mess’s him up enough to shut his annoying ego up.
I like what Diego did. I haven’t really been a fan of him but he has proven himself to me time and time again. Josh on the other hand is a punk, who thinks he is actually going to win this fight. Diego deserves all the respect he gets. Josh on the other hand has been a loud mouth his entire career. I like the fact that Diego just goes out there and proves himself, and now he has actually jumped out of his shell to do something a little extreme. I dig it, and I hope Josh gets the crap beat out of him.
I follow the ufc really close> I will never pay to see diego or kos agian sorry. I hope kos can run faster than matt serra too!!!!UFC is becoming too commercialized!
Hopefully this keeps Diego quite for a while.
Diego is the dumbest piece of shit on the planet. The guy can’t even construct complete sentences. I don’t like Koscheck but I hate Diego. “He is so friggin dumb, I bet everyday he needs someone to show him that the left shoe goes on the left foot” I’m glad Koscheck won but I can’t wait to see someone knock his fuggin head off.
p.s. I wouldn’t piss on Diego to put out a fire in my mom’s house
I want to see someone beat the snot out of DIego too!!! If a guy could make him cry, I would get that dude a hooker for life.