Welterweight bout: Paulo Thiago defeated Josh Koscheck via KO (uppercut) at 3:29 of round 1.
Paulo Thiago was awarded $40,000 for Knockout of the Night.
Welterweight bout: Paulo Thiago defeated Josh Koscheck via KO (uppercut) at 3:29 of round 1.
Paulo Thiago was awarded $40,000 for Knockout of the Night.
What a boring fight with a lame stoppage. It was just a knockdown. Certainly Koscheck was hurt, but not enough to stop the fight. On the other hand, I never liked Koscheck anyway.
R:2 A:2 S2: T:2
absolutely correct stoppage. he was unconscious. Thiago gets negative points for not pouncing, but in realtime Kos was out and done, period.
I disagree, and with Jordan Breen. Koscheck-Thiago CANNOT easily be defended and justified under the notion of “intelligent defense”.
The only justification IS Kos’ googly eyes, and I don’t think that should be enough. All those eyes tell you is that he got rocked, and I don’t think getting rocked is enough to stop a fight.
Once again, I don’t particularly like Koscheck, but he was defending himself so quickly that he could have very likley turned things around. I think fighters deserve that opportunity.
I do agree that this was far from the biggest travesty in MMA refereeing, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t get called out.
But worse than the stoppage was Paulo Thiago’s Knockout of the Night award, which should have gone to Dan Hardy, who undisputably KO’s his opponent.