If Josh Koscheck was a Magic: The Gathering player, he’d probably play a blue deck. In Magic, blue mages are generally sneaky and manipulative and have a reputation for stalling the fight and slowing their opponent down. That’s how I like to play Skyrim but in Magic I prefer playing green and of course, green and blue are enemies. I’m not saying Josh and I are enemies because I’ve never met the guy but if we met up and played some Magic, I’d expect a rivalry based on deck to arise.

In real life, I’m sure Josh is a good guy but in the media he likes to portray himself as a Loki figure; manipulating and instigating. From the first time we seen him on The Ultimate Fighter, through his appearance as a coach opposite GSP to just a few weeks ago, almost every time we hear about Josh, it seems like he’s plotting, or scheming or tricking other fighters. Whether you like it or not, it’s entertaining and it sells tickets, which is probably why the folks at UFC asked him to stir up something between he and BJ Penn in order to lure BJ out of retirement. As he said on Spike’s MMA Uncensored:

“Me and B.J. have a good relationship. Its business and, you know what? I like to have big fights. I think that B.J. is the type of fighter that would be a big fight for me. The UFC asked to try and stir up something. You know, I do my job well, and I went on to my Twitter account, and just kinda said, ‘Hey, B.J. Let’s do this fight.’”

We call him an instigator; in the fight business you call him marketable and clearly the UFC know that when Koscheck calls someone out, everyone will want to hear the smack talk. Unfortunately BJ has thicker skin than that. Koscheck should really have taken to the forums and started an insulting photoshop trend or something. That would have really got people’s attention. [source]

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+11 # Guest 2012-06-01 10:54

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.

Well, at least they are TRYING. They have to do something with welterweight division.

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+6 # Guest 2012-06-01 19:50

They need an interim interim champ

this champ will defend the interim interim belt while GSP rehabs his knee and Condit ducks fights

Hendricks wants to wait,
Diaz is suspended/retired
Kos and Ellenberger coming off losses


the OBVIOUS choice... BJ Penn- let him fight Kampmann for the UFCWWIIC

if you don't know why BJ is the obvious choice, I'll explain it for you:

Randy can't make 170

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+12 # Guest 2012-06-01 12:16

Not surprising. The UFC is always trying to fabricate beef between fighters.

Remember that horseshit they tried to pull with Mir vs Dos Santos? THIS IS A REVENGE MATCH, HE BEAT YOUR MENTOR. JDS shot that down pretty quickly, lolz.

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+5 # TDM 2012-06-01 12:25

I can't take my MMA news without at least 3 different references to nerdy things in the write-up.

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+2 # TIMinBALTIMORE 2012-06-01 14:55

The attempt to manufacture beef between JDS and Mir was nothing compared to how manufactured the whole story was with the Brazilian kid.

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+1 # TDM 2012-06-01 15:09

UFC tried to go the usual route with anger fueling the beef but I guess JDS was having none of it so they decided to really play up his nice side.

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0 # Tom Hanks 2012-06-02 04:18

Fiddle.

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