An interesting article by Kevin Iole at Yahoo! Sports came out with a few choice quotes that I found unbelievably surprising that somebody would actually say these things to a mainstream media reporter. Now, I'm not a huge fan of Kevin Iole's writing. I wasn't a fan of the St. Pierre articles saying he's pissing everyone off. Kevin, it was a bad headline, and bad choice of words for the article. Koscheck is pissing people off more and more as we get closer and closer to this fight. This latest article has all the proof you need to really hate this guy. Let's take a look at some great quotes by Koscheck:
Koscheck was critical of Hughes' decision to stand and trade punches with St. Pierre. He said, "Matt Hughes is slow, he's a farm boy and he's white. He has no speed and no athletic ability. He's a wrestler. Matt Hughes should just have been trying to take him down, take him down, take him down."
Listen asshole, that's racist. I don't care if you want to sit there and defend it against the "drunken, racist UFC idiot fans" as you stated, but that is a generalization. The statement isn't different than saying "Michael Jordan is a city boy, he's black, he's lazy.". That's racist, my friend. You are making a generalization that blacks are lazy in that statement, and in your statement, you are making a generalization that white farm boys have no speed or athletic ability. If you would have left out the damn sentence "He's white.", there would be no problem, but the sentence has no bearing in the quote other than to make the statement a racist one. But did you stop after that? Hell no, you had to show off your intelligence a bit more.
"I'm racist? Yeah, that's a good one," Koscheck said. "First off, I'm more white than I am black. I was raised white. I'm the darkest (skinned) one in my family.
Alright, so basically you are saying you are white, but.. you are making racially charged statements about white fighters. So, you are saying that you also have no speed and no athletic ability, oh wait..that's right, you aren't a white farm boy. Shut up! This is ridiculous. What is racism, my friend? According to Dictionary.com, racism is "The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.". Hmm, you do believe that his race accounts for a difference in his ability. So yes, it's a racist comment. And your defense is that you are more white than black... WOW!
You want to stop being called a racist in the media, act like Randy Couture, a class act. Or just don't add "He's white." in any of your pre-fight smack talk. I'm all for hyping up a fight, Josh, but cut the damn "white" statements out of your pre-fight interviews. It's ridiculous and you sound like a bigot against white people, which in itself is insane. If you wanted to talk about what Matt Hughes did wrong, all you had to say was he didn't take GSP down. We all know what your gameplan is when you fight GSP, but explaining to media reporters that you are different and that Matt Hughes was a white farm boy who didn't take him down is stupid. Thanks for the laughs, Josh Koscheck.