{"id":275339,"date":"2010-02-04T07:15:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-217575:1"},"modified":"2010-02-04T07:15:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:15:21","slug":"swick-says-only-a-title-fight-would-make-him-consider-fighting-teammates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/275339","title":{"rendered":"Swick says only a title fight would make him consider fighting teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XxiRFopWZyc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"never\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>Mike Swick is a good friend to Josh Koscheck. So much so that he&#8217;s stepping in at UFC 109 for his fellow welterweight and American Kickboxing Academy training partner, and will attempt to avenge Koscheck&#8217;s only defeat of 2009. If Swick beats Paulo Thiago this weekend it&nbsp;leaves him, Koscheck and Jon Fitch all waiting in line for a shot at the champ Georges St. Pierre. But they won&#8217;t fight each other, a fact that irks UFC president Dana White, who says it&#8217;s not baseball or football, and the fighters shouldn&#8217;t look at it personally. Swick said&nbsp;they won&#8217;t even broach the topic until one of them has the title. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;All of us were created at AKA. We&#8217;re not like a lot of other camps where top fighters moved in when they already had a successful career,&quot; Swick told Cagewriter. &quot;We&#8217;ve all been built from the ground up and it creates a bond, and we are very close.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Swick says they can&#8217;t win&nbsp;for even talking about the scenario so why bother? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Swick is a good friend to Josh Koscheck. So much so that he&#8217;s stepping in at UFC 109 for his fellow welterweight and American Kickboxing Academy training partner, and will attempt to avenge Koscheck&#8217;s only defeat of 2009. If Swick beats Paulo Thiago this weekend it&nbsp;leaves him, Koscheck and Jon Fitch all waiting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}