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Josh Koscheck is sick and tired of Tito Ortiz opening his mouth and “embarrassing himself.” He’s so sick of it in fact, he wants to fight Tito and he’s willing to bet $100,000 that would he would win. That fight will never happen for a million reasons but Koscheck does have a fight lined up with Paul Daley at UFC 113. As he tells Cagewriter, he’s not afraid to stand with Daley and plans to put his foot down Daley’s throat, rearrange his teeth and shut his mouth.

UFC 113 was already shaping up to be huge with Lyoto Machida vs. Shogun Rua II and Rampage Jackson vs. Rashad Evans (tentatively) co-headlining, and now it’s getting even bigger.

We know Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz will meet for a third time following their stint as coaches on the 11th season of The Ultimate Fighter. But we don’t know when.

However according to Vancouver’s News1130 All News Radio (via MMA Frenzy), Chuck and Tito may fight at UFC 115 on June 12.

According to our own Geoff Rohoman in the News1130 Sports Centre, Chuck Liddell vs. Tito Ortiz could take place at the event. It will be the third time the pair face off in the octagon. Liddell and Ortiz are expected to fight at the conclusion of the 11th run of “The Ultimate Fighter” series, which debuts March 31 on Spike TV.

The timing of the season’s conclusion, which would be immediately followed by a weekend finale, seems pretty tight for a June 12 date, but this is the UFC’s first foray into Vancouver so it makes sense they would want to bring as many big names with them as possible.

The following isn’t tied to any one event, but according to Fighters Only, Paul Daley’s next opponent will be Josh Koscheck.

Paul ‘Semtex’ Daley has all but confirmed he will be fighting Josh Koscheck next – and says the fight will be very soon. The fight is a big step up for him in the welterweight division and could catapult him into contender status if he wins.

Considering Dana White said following UFC 108 Daley’s next opponent would either be Koscheck or Jon Fitch, and Fitch has since signed to fight Thiago Alves at UFC 111, Daley vs Koscheck sometime this spring seems like a pretty safe bet.

Here’s another face to take off the UFC 109 poster.

MMA Fighting is reporting that Josh Koscheck has sustained an injury that will take him off the Feb. 6 card. The good news is the UFC has already found Paulo Thiago an opponent, Mike Swick.

Mike Swick has agreed to step in for his injured American Kickboxing Academy teammate Josh Koscheck on short notice and face Paulo Thiago (12-1) at UFC 109 on Feb. 6.

MMAFighting.com learned of the new bout after reporting Koscheck’s decision to pull out of his scheduled fight against Thiago earlier Monday.

With Anderson Silva, Lil Nog and Koscheck all off the card with injuries, that leaves Randy Couture and Mark Coleman as the only original poster-worthy match-up still intact. Kinda funny if the two fighters well into their forties are the ones who actually make to February injury-free.

Josh Koscheck won’t get a title shot in the near future, but at UFC 109, he will get the opportunity to avenge a stinging loss from earlier this year.

The UFC is targeting a welterweight rematch between Josh Koscheck and Paulo Thiago at UFC 109 on Feb. 6. FanHouse learned of the potential fight on Tuesday, but the bout has yet to be made official by the organization.

Paulo Thiago knocked Koscheck silly at UFC 95 with a vicious uppercut that sent him crumbling to the mat. Thiago isn’t the opponent Koscheck wanted, but he shouldn’t have too much trouble getting motivated for him either.

In other UFC booking news, MMA Weekly is reporting that Keith Jardine will face off against TUF 8 winner Ryan Bader at UFC 110.

A light heavyweight bout has been added to the UFC’s first trip to the land down under as former “Ultimate Fighter” winner, Ryan “Darth” Bader, looks to keep his undefeated record in tact as he faces “The Dean of Mean” Keith Jardine.

The bout was confirmed to MMAWeekly.com on Tuesday by multiple sources close to the fight who indicated bout agreements have been issued for the upcoming fight.

I’d expect Jardine to take this one, but what if he doesn’t? He’s coming off two consecutive losses. It’s hard to imagine the UFC letting a staple in their light heavyweight division go, but three losses in a row is three losses in a row. They’ve cut fighters for less.

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The NSAC has released the fighter payouts for UFC 106. Keep in mind, these figures represent the base contracted pay the fighter receives from the promotion. These figures do not include any additional “locker room” bonuses, pay-per-view revenue sharing, or sponsorship money, which in many cases exceeds a fighter’s base pay. These numbers also do not account for taxes, insurance, and license fees.

Fanhouse’s Ariel Helwani interviews Dana White, Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, Josh Koscheck, Amir Sadollah, George Sotiropoulos and Kendall Grove following UFC 106.

At the UFC 106 post-fight press conference, Tito Ortiz basically gave the press the long-version of his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan. He was injured, couldn’t spar during training, thought he won the fight, thought he was robbed and thought he won the Fight of the Night bonus.

“I thought I won the first round and I thought I won the second round. I got two takedowns you see the damage on his face. I got him good. In the third round I was gassed. After 18 months off, I want to see another fighter come in after back surgery and do what I did. And for me not getting Fight of the Night, I’m taken back by it.”

Koscheck’s look at the 2:30 mark pretty much sums up what everyone was thinking. Tito may have a point about the Fight of the Night bonus, but he didn’t win that fight and he definitely wasn’t robbed. Even if you give Tito the edge in the first two rounds, does anyone actually think Tito deserved to be called the winner after a third round spent doing practically nothing other than impersonating a punching bag? Well, I don’t, and it’s just another illustration why the 10-point must system needs to go in mixed martial arts, at least in it’s current form.

What’s next for Tito? Well, he wants the rubber match, which Dana says is a possibility, and he even floated the idea of him and Forrest coaching season 11 of The Ultimate Fighter to build it. It would make for interesting television I suppose, but do we really need the rubber match as soon as next summer? There’s also been rumors floating around about Chuck Liddell and Tito coaching next season. That would make more sense if you ask me. Forrest bounced back well last night, and I think he deserves the opportunity to start climbing the ladder once again. Many writers and fans are already talking about Forrest vs. Lil Nog. I don’t know about you, but I’m down for that.

Despite calling out Dan Hardy and declaring himself the welterweight division’s true number one contender in front of millions of people, Josh Koscheck won’t be getting the next title shot. Dana says Kos is in the mix like he always is, but they’ve already announced the GSP-Hardy fight. Koscheck was a little disappointed, but kept his spirits up and says he just wants to keep fighting, every month if he has his way, and keep getting paid.

And getting paid he did. Dana awarded him $140,000 in bonus money for his performance against Anthony Johnson. Koscheck said he wanted to weather the early storm and use his wrestling to take Johnson down and submit him, which was exactly what happened. Meanwhile, Johnson said the eye pokes took him out of game giving Koscheck the opening to take over the fight.

“I didn’t hit him in the head, I hit him in the arm. I don’t know why he would act like [that], I guess he was gassing. That’s the only thing I can think of, [him] trying to find some kind of excuse to complain. I know I didn’t hit him in the head. I thought I timed it perfect but I didn’t and that’s my fault. After him poking me in the eye it made a big difference. Then he did it twice and got both eyes the second time because when he swings, he jabs with his open hand and the right didn’t even hit me, it was just the open palm strike and my eyes, my eyes are burning like hell right now. After I hurt him, he needed that, he needed some kind of excuse to recover, but it’s all good.”

It was a weird night, but with everything going on with the UFC these days, I guess we should have expected it.