Many fans may have felt a little cheated by the end of the night at UFC 124 when proverbial ‘bad boy’ Josh Koscheck embraced the one man he had been trashing talking for half the year, Georges St-Pierre. Koscheck was dominated in his fight against GSP, with many fans relishing the beating after the hype led up to the fight with both men cast as opposing coaches on the last season of “The Ultimate Fighter.”
In a recent interview with GSP’s manager, Shari Spencer, she wants to assure the fans that the animosity that was built up during the show was real. She also notes that as professionals both men were able to put that all behind them once the bell rang announcing the end of their fight.
“I don’t think it was pretend, but I do think it’s behind them, if that makes sense. I think there’s a difference when the hype is simply just for the sake of hype and when it is maybe exaggerated a bit for the sake of hype but yet the animosity is real. It’s behind them after the fight. They move on; they’re professionals. I don’t necessarily agree that it’s all pretend, and so I think that keeps some legitimacy going. I think there was true animosity between the two of them. There’s no doubt about that in my mind…I don’t know that the mental aspect of it was as large as it was played out to be. Dana made the comment, I think one time, ‘Which Georges St. Pierre is going to show up?’ Or something along those lines. I think it was overplayed, but I definitely think that as time goes on, it becomes more and more difficult to get inside Georges’ head.”
HT: Sherdog.com