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February 23, 2009
Kos's UFC 95 Thoughts
February 24, 2009
My thoughts on UFC 95...
First and foremost I would like to say thank you to all of my fans for their support, I really do appreciate it!
As for UFC 95...YES, I would have liked to see the ref let the fight go on a little bit more because we are all fighters and we fight until the end. Yes, I got hit hard, but felt as though I could have recovered if I had the chance. As for next time, my message to all the refs would be to please let the fight go until I'm put out to sleep...Just so I don't have the thought of "what if" going through my mind and probably the minds of all of you, my fans.
I took this fight just as if I was fighting the number one fighter in the weight class. I felt like I did everything right in the training camp to win this fight. I was in great shape, but sometimes you still come up short in life even when I have put my whole life on hold for a chance to put everything on the line in the cage for 15 minutes. I don't think I could have done anything different in training camp to make the outcome go my way, so I guess that's life.
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I don't know all of the answers to the game of MMA and I might never know all of the answers. I can tell all of you this; I have put my life on hold for 5 years to make my dream come true. The game has its ups and downs and I have had my fair share of both. I only know to do one thing and it's what I have been doing from day one in competitions since I was a kid...Refocus my life and training and go back to the drawing board and train for my next fight. I have 13 weeks of training camp for my next fight May 23rd at UFC 98 in Las Vegas.
I could be like a lot of other people and cry about it for weeks and months and make a big deal about it, but it's now when the true character and discipline of a person is tested.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." --Martin Luther King Jr.
This is a time of challenge and controversy for me but it is my passion and I'm going to get up and do what I do best and that is go back to the gym and train to become the best. I will not make excuses for losing a fight, but yes I may get mad and yell a bit, but at the end of the day there is only one person that can control this and that's me. So maybe someday we can do a rematch, it would make for a good fight.
The training for my fight on May 23rd at UFC 98 starts Monday, March 2nd at 11:30am. Keep checking back for my video blog on my training camp...Road to 98!
Thank You
Kos
P.S. I don't care who I fight at UFC 98, I hope it's someone super tough and someone that is ranker in the top of the weight class...if anyone wants to step up, I will be ready to go!
Source: KosMMA.com
