Rewatch Thiago Alves vs Josh Koscheck

[Frode Falch]

Good fight. Josh took the fight on short notice. You can hear Goldie and Rogan say that the original fight was Alves vs Diego. Man that would have a murder.

Prime Alves was a beast. But he kinda fell into a bad place after getting beat by GSP, followed by brain surgery.

But his way up to his title shot, was amazing.

One of my OG favourite UFC fighters

 

[Frode Falch]

 

[BigTruck]

Dude he would have fucked Diego up so bad into losing a split decision.

 

[BigTruck]

Alves vs Perry in bkfc will be fun.

 

[Spacebadger]

Alves was the only guy who could get up from George's multiple takedown and get on top of him, if only he was taller.

 

[r-harper-1]

Karo and Hughes wins were extremely impressive

 

[Mike]

Alves was the only guy who could get up from George's multiple takedown and get on top of him, if only he was taller.

Lmao he didn't lose because of height.

 

[aali14]

Prime Alves was a beast for sure

 

[EndlessCritic]

Fact: Jim Miller beat Thiago Alves and lost to Diego Sanchez in the same year.

(And it was one of Diego's non-robbery wins too.)

 

[Deleted member 587672]

Alves footwork to deliver his low kicks was on point.

From memory, I thought that Alves was often unaware of his cage positioning (GSP) which affected his game.

 

[Uber_Noober]

I didn’t know Alves had brain surgery, scary stuff.

 

[Elvis.]

Alves was jacked to the point of suspicion

 

[Vil7]

His strategy of missing weight by a weight class, paying the fine & killing his opponent was solid.

 

[GrantB13]

Ah. Back when you probably used to know all the fighters on the card with minimal effort.

 

[Spacebadger]

Lmao he didn't lose because of height.

Back then welterweights were 5'6 - 5'9 the same average height as featherweight today, a 5'10 is considered huge, welterweights nowadays are 5'11 minimum.

 

[AmonTobin]

I didn’t know Alves had brain surgery, scary stuff.

It's kinda crazy to think if Alves did today's calf kicks instead of the muay thai thigh kicks, he would have busted guys up even worse.

 

[TheMMAnalyst]

Alves was jacked to the point of suspicion

Beyond suspicion bro.

So many dudes didn’t pass the eye test from a mile away during that era, him included.

 

[mkt]

Consider that Fitch (Koscheck's training partner at AKA and another wrestler) beat Alves twice, I wonder how this would've gone if Josh had a full camp? It's still an impressive win for Alves. Prime Alves vs. Ian Garry would be an interesting fight. Ian would have his usual height/reach advantage, but if Alves could connect some of those kicks to those long, toothpick legs...I don't know long Ian could remain mobile.

 

[CasualBot]

Murder Diego ?! At the time? Hell no.



Win a decision on leg kicks, hell yes.

 

[613]

Alves had a short period where he peaked extremely high. Some of the best striking in the game, great TDD and very explosive. He was never the same again after losing to gsp, having brain surgery and battling constant injuries