Former UFC middleweight contender Patrick ‘The Predator’ Côté (16-7) is hoping that he’s done enough to get back into the top promotion, winning three straight since his dismissal after a third straight Octagon loss in October of 2010.
If the UFC calls him back, Côté says he’d like to do it at the recently unconfirmed event expected to take place in Montreal, Quebec this coming March.
Speaking to MMAWeekly Radio, Côté expressed his desire to return to the Octagon, as well as a desire to face Michael Bisping in the future, saying the Brit has “no power at all in his punch.”
“I actually only did one bad fight in my career and that was against Tom Lawlor. If you take all of my fights in the UFC, all of the fights are pretty entertaining, or I had bad luck like I broke my knee or I got stomped on my head. I feel great, and I think I did what I had to do, three wins in a row so let’s do this…”
“You can fall, but the most important thing is how you get back on your feet. That’s what I did, three wins in a row after that.”
“I want to get back there. In my head I know I can beat more than half of the fighters at 185 pounds, especially a guy like Mike Bisping. He has too much hype around him. It’s just my opinion,” Cote said.
“As much as I like Jason Miller, I thought he looked terrible. It was pretty bad. In the second round he got tired like that, in the main event, especially in a fight like that. It was pretty bad, but in the other way we saw that Bisping has no power at all in his punch. I think he punched him 100 times and he didn’t rock him once…”
“I want to be back in the UFC, and especially in Montreal at the end of March.”
Côté was released from the UFC following a decision loss to Tom Lawlor at UFC 121 in October of 2010. It was his third straight loss in the Octagon, having been submitted by Alan Belchar at UFC 113 and losing to Anderson Silva after suffering a knee injury in the title bout at UFC 90.
If ‘The Predator’ returns it will be his fifth run with the UFC, having taken fights outside of the top promotion between Octagon appearances several times before in the past.