oh god, wheres Chase? he’ll nut himself over this.

i liked deigo vs alves a whole helluva lot more than this, but they couldn’t a better guy to fight alves. unless it was swick or fitch, but i dont think either one woulda been ready. oh well. im neutral now. just hoping for a good fight.

lol chase is koshcecks biggest fan.. koscheck tko 2nd rd

Kos actually fights much like Fitch does, minus the submission skills. If Kos can get him on the ground and manage to get to side, mount, or back, then he’ll TKO Alves. I also think that Kos has good enough stand up to hold his own, and if he has a really good night, I can see him winning a decision on the feet. I dunno. Kos by decision. I’m not really an Alves fan. Alves just needs to keep it standing to win. Duh.

Got a question: For example, if all Matt Hughes has is wrestling and submissions and he is one dimensional, does that make Alves one dimensional too? All he has is good Thai skills (knees kicks punches) and size. I say Alves is one-dimensional. A good wrestler or jits guy who could get him to the ground would show that.

good question ..but if you look at it that way almost anyone could be one dimensional or however u spell that lol. the only thing i hate are the wrestlers that lay n pray. i could care less about the others who are strikers or bjj fighters cause 10 times out of 10 their fights are more entertaining than the lay n prays. styles make fights.

Alves has good enough defense ground game that he can tie up and stall out for stand ups. His takedown defense is also pretty good. Kos doesn’t have decent standup or a crazy pace so Alves just needs to time his shots and kill him with a knee.

Alves may have improved TD defense, but Kos has the 2nd best TD’s in the division. Weighing 20 lbs more than a over the hill Matt Hughes does not mean you have great TD defense. Kos WILL be able to put Thiago on his back.

Regarding the matchup, props to Kos for stepping up. However, I really wanted to see Diego/Thiago - it makes for a waaaaaaay better fight. As all of the regular reader’s know, I have hate Kos since TUF 1. Although, he has started to come around just a tiny bit (personality wise), but not really, he’s still a cocky punk that is still pretty 1 dimensional. Sure he came a long way since he days on TUF, but I couldn’t and still can’t stand Rogan hanging from Kos’s nuts like he is a case of recently contracted crabs. The first time Kos threw a kick, Rogan was like “He’s become so well rounded since his days on TUF. He is like a sponge - he just learns soooo quickly”. SHUT UP Already. His standup game consists of an overhand right and a roundhouse kick where he is 10 times more likey to fall on his own butt then send the opponent to the matt.

I sure hope that Thiago can stop the Kos takedown and give Kos the best KO since…, actually, I’ll be rooting for the best KO EVER. GSP vs Kos is NOT a fight that I am interested in seeing again. They might as well strap on the headgear and pull in a wresting matt.

Great POST VM!!!! Tru Story! Well rounded? what a joke!

No chance that Kos even attempts to stand with Alves, so expect a crappy fight! if there is a mma GOD, then Alves will be able to stop a few takedowns long enough to knock his head of and then mop the blood of the mat with his curly troll-doll-like hair!

Koschek and his hair stylist should be shot by a firing SQUAD!!!!!

if kos ruins this fight for me, I will be furious!

Truth.

I wonder if the UFC is currently looking for someone to replace Kos it fight Zenko in case he gets suspended after the fight due to injury. That is less than month apart. KO’s have a minimum of a 30 day suspension if I’m not mistaken.

Someone above had mentioned that they should have found a better opponent, like Swick. Newflash: Swick is not better than Kos. Although, if Swick is not scheduled to fight, he would be a likely choice to fill in for Kos at the UFN for the troops.

Vm: I expect Fitch or Swick to step in and fill the void and fight Yoshida. I would prefer it be Swick, because it will be a much more competitive match up instead of Fitch.

The UFC could also just re-book Karo vs. Yoshida!

or they can even match up Yoshida with stun Gun

i thought swick was fighting goulet on the same card.

u r right, i forgot about swick vs. Goulet!

Koscheck — who is still scheduled to fight Yoshiyuki Yoshida at UFC Fight Night

and it still implies that kos will fight yoshida. if he gets injured or has suspensions, then have deigo fight yoshida. he’ll be left without a fight to finish of 2007. how did we forget about him through all this?

2008, i mean

I think the guys can get a doctor’s approval and get cleared to fight (we’re talking TKO’s with no cuts etc). The commission gives their minimums, but the fighters can be cleared sooner. Kos must have a subprime mortgage trying to fight twice in 30 days.

HOW, oh HOW would Kos beat GSP??? What would his stategy be? He can’t take him down, he gets taken down at will, and his standup is light hears behind GSP’s.

Kos barely trained wrestling in preparation for that fight.He underestimated Georges’s wrestling,see the pre-fight smack talk.He still got up from 1 of gsp’s td’s and took him down in rd1.So to say that he can’t take Georges down is completely incorrect.I don’t think St.Pierre is necessarily a better wrestler,he just mixes it up better.That’s something that Josh needs to work on along with his standup which i agree is average at best.He needs to stop looking for that 1 big punch.

It was pretty clear though that Kos needs to be able to Take down GSP more than once or twice in order to get the win. GSP pretty much dominated Kos in the takedowns. Whether or not that was due to Kos not wrestling training remains to be seen, it certainly showed in their fight.

VM, who’s saying Kos would beat GSP? I’m talking about Alves if he steam-rolls Kos, GSP might have some competition.

Fitch is definitely better than Kos, but in Kos’s defense GSP has put much worse ass whoopin’s on guys. Kos got handled but he faired better than most.

I want to see him shake and quiver all over the ground!

Hope Alves leaves Kos all stiff, Frankenstien style like Tank Abott!

Koscheck is the best possible replacement, but it’s still disappointing. I think the Sanchez-Alvez fight was guaranteed to be exciting, but this has the potential to be boring if Kos takes him down and doesn’t do anything. I would have been cheering for Thiago before, and I still will because I think he would make for a more entertaining fight with GSP (or BJ, but I think GSP’s gonna win their fight).

Alves last two fights were pretty much replacements with this one. The Alves vs. Hughes fight was thrown together when Evans vs. Liddell got scrapped if im not mistaken.

How about a rematch with Karo?

swick has a fight against goulet and it says kos will still fight yoshida. i dont think a rematch with Karo makes any sense really. fitch should fight karo, reason being that karo is a top welterweight and a win over him is a big deal. deigo can have marcus davis after ufc 89. THAT fight would be pretty good. Marcus davis vs diego or fitch would be good.

And Alves hits way harder with punches, kicks, knees. Hazelett rocked him good also.

it was a rear naked choke, and he choked him unconscious. very different from a guillotine.

i kind of hope alves wins now. i don’t really want to see kos vs gsp 2, and alves vs gsp makes for an explosive fight. i would have really liked to see deigo vs gsp, but i guess that wont happen now.

Your right, been some time with sooo many fights in between…definitely not a KO by any means though. I am with you on that. KOS will never beat GSP because plain and simple he cannot out wrestle him. Alves vs. GSP is a much more interesting and what I think will be an entertaining fight.