After a blown MCL in his last fight against UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva, Canadian fighter Patrick Côté (13-5) wants his return to the octagon to be huge.
“I want a big fight right away, with a good style for me,” he told MMAWeekly.com. “I don’t want to fight a guy like Ricardo Almeida for my comeback fight. For sure it’s going to be a boring fight. The style is just like that. I can beat the grappler, no problem, but for my comeback, I’m looking more for a fight like Wanderlei Silva, or Rich Franklin if he goes to 185, or I want to fight Michael Bisping.”
With Tuesdays recent talk of a UFC 110 bout between Wanderlei and Bisping will put any hopes Côté has to rest. A fight against Rich Franklin might be a good choice for the Canadian as he looks to return in the Spring but Côté recognized that his next opponent will be in the hands of the UFC.
“The last decision will be in the hands of the UFC, so I’ll follow what they want,” he said. “The main thing now is to come back healthy.”
If he is to ever meet Anderson Silva again in the octagon Côté feels a rematch against the middleweight champ would be much different.
“I liked my fight with (Anderson),” he said. “In my head, I don’t want to do anything different. I had fun. If I fight him again, I will do exactly the same training camp, maybe with more wrestling.
“I think I (expletive) up his head up a little bit with my game plan. I was in his face but I wasn’t chasing him. He gave me his best punch and his best kick and I was still there. I wanted more like a brawl, but it was more playing technique with me.
“I think it’s going to be easier for me to fight him next time, because when you fight a guy like that, it’s very hard to find a training partner like this guy; he’s one of a kind. The first time I fought him, I did the best I could, but the next time, the surprise aspect of this guy – his movement, his footwork – it’s not going to be a surprise anymore.”
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