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UFC 113 Quote Notebook: Josh Koscheck on British MMA fighters and Paul Daley on Underground Forum photoshopped images
By Zach Arnold | May 6, 2010
- Gareth A. Davies (London Telegraph): Paul Daley sharpens his fistic tools for dangerous wrestler Josh Koscheck
- ESPN (UK): Paul Daley says he wants to win MMA belts in multiple organizations besides UFC
- Heavy: Paul Daley in-depth interview
UFC promotional video with Paul Daley
“I’ve got faith and I’m definitely going to be #1. I will be the champion of the UFC.”
“Josh Koscheck is not a fighter. Josh Koscheck is a wrestler. Wrestlers don’t like to fight. Wrestlers like to use their athleticism and they like to win. That’s the mentality of a wrestler. Koscheck is coming in to win, I’m coming in to fuck him up really bad. I’ve seen this fight a thousand times over. Koscheck, he is really not ready for this fight.”
“I’ll take 1,000 Josh Koscheck right hands and I’ll guarantee you when I land one of my mine, there will only be one of us standing. Josh Koscheck has never been hit by me. You cannot prepare for someone who can hit you as hard as I can hit you. You can beat me up all night and I land one punch. You’ve got to avoid that one punch for 15 minutes.”
“I’m going in there to do what’s necessary to win the fight and win the fight in the shortest time possible, so I’m sticking to what I need to do to win the fight which is go in guns blazing and smoke people.”
MMAFighting.com with Paul Daley
Has he been told he will get a title shot against Georges St. Pierre if he wins?
“No, I’ve heard nothing. For me it’s just another fight, like I said, I heard nothing, I know there’s Ultimate Fighter rumors as well, there’s the GSP rumors. For me it’s just a holiday and a few weeks of getting drunk after this fight. I don’t know if it’s going to be in Vegas filming for The Ultimate Fighter or whatever, I don’t know.”
Does he like or hate Josh Koscheck?
“I don’t know Josh Koscheck, so, he’s a non-entity for me. I don’t really give two shits about him as a person. As a fighter, he’s good and I respect him. I respect all the fighters that for any organization from the small shows all the way up to UFC.”
What will his strategy by against Josh Koscheck?
“His eyes down on the canvas, face down, ass up. You’ve seen the Countdown (show). I think he’s trying to play mind games to be honest with you by saying he’s going to stand in there and he’s going to wrestle. I think he thinks that worries me that I know he can wrestler, I know he likes to stand a bit, but I’m prepared for everything. I think he’s being a little naive that I’m not and that I’m just going in there just to stand and I’ll forget about the rest of MMA. So, he can say what he wants he wants to do in there, it doesn’t really matter.”
Have your mind games online and offline with Koscheck worked?
“I think he’s a little irritated, you know, a little humiliated. You’ve got this thread on the Internet with over 9,000 views or whatever, it’s probably a little humiliating to see him and Tito Ortiz kissing on some of these photoshops and shit like that, yeah, I’m probably in his head.”
After beating Martin Kampmann, did he expect to be in a co-main event slot on the card this fast?
“I didn’t to be honest with you. I thought I’d have to fight a few more fights on the under card. I was prepared to do that and I still am. I’m not in a rush to get to the title. It would be an option probably after this fight and you know, who knows, I may not take it even as big of an opportunity as it is, you never know, I may say no because I don’t want to as much as I am confident I don’t want to go in there with [unintelligible] things in the back of my head, I’d rather be 100% confident, 100% focused, everything in my personal life and training is 100%, a good structure to my training, that everything’s working how it should be to prepare for such a huge test because once you fall from the top of the mountain, it’s hard to get back up.”
Is he going into the fight with a clear mind?
“Of course, man, just victory, that’s what we do. Once we’re here, it’s just victory for us, man. It’s destined for us to win.”
Will he avenge Dan Hardy’s loss?
“Of course, I’d like to represent my team. I’d like for us to win. We had some wins on the show a few shows back with Andre (Winner) and Ross Pearson so we’ve had wins since that bad and I want to continue that on Saturday.”
UFC promotional video with Josh Koscheck
“I go in there to fight and I go in there to fight and win. Paul Daley has got a lot of heart and he’s been knocking a lot of people out. The problem is, he hasn’t fought anybody like me yet.”
“In the beginning, yeah, I was just a wrestler. Now, I’m a Mixed Martial Artist. I have other weapons. I have more than just a right hand. I have wrestling, submissions, I have takedowns, I have ground-and-pound. If they’re going to stand in front of me and they’re going to let me punch them, then guess what, I’m going to throw a right hand and try to knock them out.
“Don’t be surprised if I come out, stand toe-to-toe, and knock this guy out.”
MMAFighting.com with Josh Koscheck
Was missing the Paulo Thiago booking a good thing in hindsight?
“You know, one of the things that you know come to my mind is you know when one door closes, another one opens and I got an opportunity to step up and you know beat down Paul Daley on Saturday and become the #1 contender, so you know I’m super-excited about that opportunity and you know it’s a great opportunity for me, so…”
What is the history between you and Paul Daley?
“Well I think that you know to be honest with you we shared a dressing room in Dallas and you know we were pretty cool to each other it seemed like in that dressing room, you know maybe just out of respect of one another but after that, as soon as he beat his last guy, Dustin Hazelett, you know he came out and pointed to me and I was like, ‘All right, sweet, so I guess we’re going to have something here’ and that was the history there, so you know now there’s you know he doesn’t like me, I don’t like him, and we’re going to get to settle it for 15 minutes on Saturday night.”
Has Daley crossed the line with his antics?
“Nah, you know that’s part of the game. I mean if you look at guys like Floyd Mayweather, that guy talks, so it’s part of the sport and you know I’m concerned with what I got to do, I don’t really care too much about trash talking, I don’t care what he’s doing, you know, I’m focused on myself you know it’s been a long road to get here and you know I’m not going to let this opportunity slip by.”
Did the thread on The Underground Forum with the photoshopped pictures bother you?
“Nah, it doesn’t bug me, you know what it does it gives me the opportunity to get my face out there a lot more and then I get to beat his ass, so that’s perfect.”
What are your thoughts on Paul Daley as a fighter?
“I’m sure he has (evolved), but has he evolved to the point where I’ve evolved? I don’t think so. I think that he’s still a one-dimensional fighter. I think that his stand up is his only hope and he’s trying to talk me into playing his game and his game plan, that’s not going to happen, you know, I’m focused on what [I’ve] got to do. I have a great game plan for this fight and you know that’s my primary focus is exploiting areas that I think he’s weak and putting him in positions that I think I’m better at.”
What’s the game plan heading into the fight against Daley?
“The game plan on Saturday is to make Paul Daley think, you know, this whole week, what the hell am I going to do? Am I going to stand with him? There’s a good chance of that, you know, I got big balls and I’ve stood with you know pretty much anybody they threw at me so you know he’s got to concerned with that. Am I going to take him down? Yeah, there’s a good chance of that, you know, so right now, it’s still 50/50. Paul Daley’s going to have to sleep the rest of this week knowing there’s a chance he can be on his ass or there’s a chance that I can stand toe-to-toe with him and come Saturday night he’s going to get to find out.”
Has he been told that the winner of Saturday’s fight will get a Welterweight title shot?
“No, you know I’m not really concerned with that. I’m concerned with winning May 8th you know because that determines everything, where I go in my future and who I fight next, so I’m focused on Paul Daley.”
Did he take satisfaction in seeing Dan Hardy lose after Hardy called him a crybaby?
“Oh, definitely, you know he just showed his true colors that he’s a one-dimensional fighter, you know, St. Pierre just took him down over and over and over and he couldn’t do anything about it. So, that’s the game and you know these British guys need to work on their wrestling.”
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Daley:
I’m not in a rush to get to the title… I may say no because…I don’t want to go in there with [unintelligible] things in the back of my head…”
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seemed out of character with the rest of the interview
So we’ve gone from pro wrestling influenced promos to internet trolling to sell fights? If that trend catches on this sport could be finished.
Wow, that was…
reealy long.
😉
“I’ve got faith and I’m definitely going to be #1. I will be the champion of the UFC.”
Aint gonna happen.
One of the best gate keepers ever, and a damn good fighter.
But just aint gonna happen.
Kos, just like a lot of guys, its otherwise great but lacks that final undefinable Zazz.
Thiago will be next IMO.