MMAFrenzy’s coverage of Saturday’s main card continues with our preview of a welterweight battle between Josh Koscheck and Mike Pierce. Stay tuned to MMAFrenzy as we break down each fight on the main card and conclude with the main event interim welterweight championship bout between Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit.
Keys for Josh Koscheck (Bryan Robison)-
Koscheck really feels he is wasting his time fighting Pierce on Saturday. With how he talks, he is going to develop plenty of enemies, and he has seemingly done that with Pierce. Now he sees himself pitted against someone that would love nothing more than to shut him up.
Fortunately for Koscheck, he is just as good or better than Pierce in nearly every category. This will allow him to decide where the fight goes.
However, the last time he fought someone that he felt did not deserve to be fighting him was Paulo Thiago at UFC 95, and he got knocked out by Thiago.
Even with his brashness, he must not overlook the confident Pierce, as he was in a similar situation at UFC 107, taking on Koscheck’s teammate, Jon Fitch. In that fight, Pierce was getting the better of Fitch throughout the third round, but still lost the decision. For Koscheck, he will likely keep the fight standing, as that is his biggest advantage over Pierce. With a significant advantage in speed and accuracy, look for Koscheck to pepper Pierce with many quick jabs and hooks, hoping to frustrate Pierce. From there, he can implement any gameplan he wants.
Keys for Mike Pierce (Chris Leslie)-
Pierce is coming into this fight with Josh Koscheck with a rather large gap in skill in the same areas he is strong in. Pierce is a decent MMA boxer but Kos has better striking. Pierce is a collegiate wrestler but Kos is an NCAA champion wrestler. Pierce has someone who often trash talks for him but Kos needs no help talking trash. It goes on…
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Nice write up guys, and I agree this should be Kos’s fight to lose.
Kos should win, but I will never get over how he just willingly took the loss to Gsp. All the way thru the 5th there was never a time he just said f it and went all out. I’m rooting for pierce to get a big win and put his name squarely on the map.
“Willingly”…you mean he gave the fight to GSP? What else could he do? He was seriously out wrestled in a previous fight and knew he would be on his back if he got too close…he was going for the hail mary punch, that’s really all GSP had to worry about. I think a fractured Orbital would have played into how he fought also.
and he fractured that orbital in round 1 I believe
actually, the ref (in hindsight to be fair) might have done a lot better to inspect the eye damage and diminish the injury which was an impairment to josh’s recovery. so…. yea, maybe devin you should probably retract your comment..
Bro I have broken my orbital in a street fight, and I kept fighting. And I’m some bum from Florida. He willingly let the clock run out in the 5th round and gladly took the loss rather than risk further injury to get a win. Soft ass!! No champ ever takes a loss from anyone.