Greater WW, Josh Koscheck or Colby Covington?

[ExitLUPin]

Two WWs with strong wrestling backgrounds. Colby had much more volume, Kos had far more power and finishing ability. Both got popular and big fights for their mouths and trash talk. Both went 0-2 against the WW king of their time.

Koscheck's best wins

Diego
Trigg
Lytle
Rumble
Daley
Hughes
Pierce

He also fought pre USADA Hendricks to a SD loss.

Colby's best wins

Pyle
Griffin
Dong
Maia
RDA
Robbie
TWood
Jorge

 

[BowserJr]

Kos

 

[Mammothman]

Koscheck, as douchy as he was he never was a POS like Colby.

 

[WoozyFailGuy]

Koscheck, and I have been a long time Kos hater.
If you redo their best wins list, but make it "opponents under 40" it would be much shorter for Colby.

 

[jnes]

Kos by far. Colby's resume is horrendous for the amount of praise and attention he gets. His best win is a LW RDA.

 

[Jinx_AA]

Kos was much more explosive athlete/wrestler

Colby probably better durability and pace in his short lived prime

Silly to compare fighters from different generations though … they both did what they did …

 

[Superzorro]

It's close. I definitely like Koscheck more, way more exciting fighter more authentic personality. But if you look at who they've lost to, Colby's list is a little less embarrassing. Before last night, he had only lost to champions. In a fight, Koscheck has the power and explosiveness advantage where as Covington like you said has the stamina and a higher workrate.

 

[Subline]

Colby's resume is horrible, only ranked guy he has beaten under the age of 35 is RDA who also took 2 rounds off him.

Koscheck has a stronger argument for beating Hendricks than Colby does beating Usman btw

 

[TeenageMutantLesnarTurtle]

They're pretty equal in terms of being douchebags. Kos would probably have beaten Colby though.

 

[AdamWarlock]

koscheck striking is worse than even colby.

 

[FreddieRoachsVoice]

If Koscheck actually stuck to his wrestling and didn't try to swing for wild KOs, he was better fighter. He practically is by default considering he actually showed up to fight people and didn't exclusively cherry pick opponents who were on losing streaks but even still, I think he edges it out.

Many people (including GSP) thought Kos beat Hendricks and he also handed Diego his first loss which was bigger than anything Colby ever did. If I'm being honest, Colby was a more consistent fighter but Kos flashed higher peaks by a long shot when he was on which led to bigger wins.

Considering Colby had 3 title fights, he has a SHOCKINGLY bad resume of actual wins. RDA has a career long weakness to wrestlers so Colby's best win being a hotly contested decision over him (at WW, not even LW) is pretty weak. He's actually Colby's only win who isn't retired now which shows you the state of Colby's resume.

Covington likely could have notched many more wins but you don't get points for hypotheticals and his inactivity/refusal to fight credible opponents tanks him.

 

[Skarsgard]

It's close. I definitely like Koscheck more, way more exciting fighter more authentic personality. But if you look at who they've lost to, Colby's list is a little less embarrassing. Before last night, he had only lost to champions. In a fight, Koscheck has the power and explosiveness advantage where as Covington like you said has the stamina and a higher workrate.

To be fair, Kos was forced to fight tougher guys than Colby. The second Dana thought Colby might be marketable, he got treated with kid gloves. Not to mention, Kos fought in a much deeper division, in my opinion of course.

 

[HHJ]

Kos easily

 

[HHJ]

They're pretty equal in terms of being douchebags. Kos would probably have beaten Colby though.

Nah


Kos just naturally is a heel.

Colby made himself into a really shitty annoying character. Thats worse.

Koschek can make a face and get under your skin.

Colby gotta be all: cuck cuck libtard dead father soy soy soy

 

[Gabe]

It’s close. Lawler, Woodley, and RDA are all better wins than Diego, Rumble, and Daley. Actually why are people saying Koscheck?

 

[HHJ]

It’s close. Lawler, Woodley, and RDA are all better wins than Diego, Rumble, and Daley. Actually why are people saying Koscheck?

Lawler Woodley and RDA were all old when he beat them.

 

[Gabe]

Lawler Woodley and RDA were all old when he beat them.

They were all rightfully ranked top 5 when he beat them. Lawler and Woodley were one or two fights removed from losing the belt (pretty sure Lawler was coming off of a win over Cerrone) and RDA was on a three fight win streak.

 

[HHJ]

They were all rightfully ranked top 5 when he beat them. Lawler and Woodley were one or two fights removed from losing the belt (pretty sure Lawler was coming off of a win over Cerrone) and RDA was on a three fight win streak.

Old.

Old and shot.

Disgusting

 

[pick999]

Equal

 

[FreddieRoachsVoice]

They were all rightfully ranked top 5 when he beat them. Lawler and Woodley were one or two fights removed from losing the belt (pretty sure Lawler was coming off of a win over Cerrone) and RDA was on a three fight win streak.

False. Lawler was 1-3 in his last 4 going into the fight and riding a 2 fight losing streak... not to mention he had noticeably declined after the Rory fight arguably losing to Condit and barely edging out Cerrone. Lawler nearly went winless after losing the belt beating only Nick Diaz's ghost and getting a 38 second win over Niko Price in his retirement fight. Sure doesn't sound like "Prime Lawler" to me.

Woodley had lost 10 straight rounds before Colby finally agreed to fight him and Woodley never won a round again. He was then brutally stopped by Luque and Jake freakin Paul a year later so yeah... real elite win there.

RDA has a career long weakness to wrestlers and Colby still barely managed to beat him... at a weight class above his natural one. Is this really that impressive of a feat? Should Michael Chiesa get a title shot too for also climbing this Everest?