Well I’m a little late with this ones as I’ve been a bit busy but as I’m sure most of you are aware Butterbean (Eric Esch) has been telling the world what it already knows:

“I know he allegedly broke his foot in the fight against Sylvia, but he didn’t show anything before he quit. Pudzianowski has no stand-up and as strong as he is, he punches like a girl. All he does is throw arm punches. He needs a lot of help. He’s the 5-time World’s Strongest Man but hits like a 130-pounder, not a strong man who weighs 270 pounds. He doesn’t have the skill level to get to the level he wants to fight.”

“Once he gets a stand-up game – you can’t have a ground game working without one – he could be a force in MMA. He still needs some work on his ground game, too. We all know he’s very strong but that’s not enough at the highest level of MMA. I don’t know who has been coaching him but that trainer should be fired. Pudzianowski needs to prove himself, showing he has a good stand-up game by beating a good MMA fighter, before he gets another big fight like a spot on the October 9th show.”

So thats Butterbean saying what everyone else has been saying for months now, is Butterbean angling for a shot at Pudzian, WP.pl states that Esch has stated he would fight him but doesn’t see the point as he would knock him out pretty quickly and doesn’t understand why Sylvia didn’t.

Moosin have announced that Pudzianowski is likely to fight in October and this was originally slated as being against Kimbo, however Kimbo’s manager has recently text Sherdog stating this won’t be happening. This would be a terrible move for Mariusz Pudzianowski as he would no doubt lose again. This October fight will be in Chicago and Pudzianowski is purely on the card to bring in the Polish population. This also raises the question as to his proposed September fight at KSW. The big man could do with releasing an official statement about what he’s doing, where he’s training and the caliber of opponent he thinks he will be facing in the short term in order to progress his career.

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