UFC 135 is less than two days away, and its main-card competitors are preparing for some of the most important fights of their careers.
In the co-main event, Josh Koscheck takes on former UFC welterweight champion Matt Hughes. Both are coming off losses and haven’t fought since 2010. Hughes lost to B.J. Penn while Koscheck lost to Georges St-Pierre.
Koscheck is also filling in for an injured Diego Sanchez.
MMA Fanhouse spoke to Koscheck about his upcoming fight with Hughes:
My job is to fight, realistically, and it doesn’t matter who I’m fighting Saturday night. The way I look at it is, it’s a fight, and I gotta go in there and test myself and put myself in a position to win.
There’s no reason to over exaggerate. It’s Matt Hughes. He’s just another name, and he’s just another fighter that I have to go in there and perform and be at my best, and put myself in the position to win the fight.
When he was at the top, he was beating a lot of good guys. He was the champion at one point, and he was on his way back up. I felt it would be a great opportunity to get a fight with Matt Hughes, and I’m not sure why it didn’t happen. There are a lot of excuses on his end, and the UFC says they never offered it to him, but when you call someone out on numerous times, I think that shows you are interested in fighting, and he should’ve responded.
Watch the entire interview from MMA Fanhouse here.
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