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MMAyou.com got to speak with Josh “The Punk" Thomson. Check out what Thomson has to say regarding his June 27th bout with Gilbert Melendez, his feud with Frank Shamrock, and how to fight BJ Penn.
MMAyou.com: First, how are you doing?
Thomson: I’m doing good. How are you?
MMAyou.com: I’m good, thank you. How did you get your nickname “The Punk”?
Thomson: You know (laughs), it just kind of… Just being me I guess. It just comes natural. The things I say, the way I come across, my approach isn’t always the best when I’m talking to somebody. I guess the first time you meet me you possibly don’t like me but once you get to know me I think, you know, people start realizing I have a good heart and I’m very loyal to my friends. I think they finally see through, it’s just the way I talk I guess so that’s how it all came about.
MMAyou.com: How’s the fight with you and Gil going to go down?
Thomson: It’s just gonna be explosive man! I don’t know how else to say it. I’ve said it over and over again, the feeling out process is over between him and I. We’ve trained together, we know each other, he’s probably going to make a couple of little tweaks to his game, as have I, that we remember from past experiences on what’s gonna happen. We’ve made those kinks and hopefully it works. We’ll see what happens. It should be a very explosive fight.
Very fast paced! That’s the one thing people need to remember. It’s gonna be a very fast paced fight.
MMAyou.com: I definitely agree with that. Would you like to fight in the UFC again?
Thomson: You know right now I can’t say only because I’m really looking at this fight right now. I have a multi-fight deal with Strikeforce and the HP Pavilion and I’m really looking forward to represent them for this fight. They’ve been there for me and taken care of me and I love everything about the Strikeforce show. I love fighting in my hometown. I love being near my home. I love everything about this show. From the venue, I can’t beat a better venue then the HP Pavilion. The San Jose Sharks play there man, I mean come on! (both laugh)
It’s off the hook. It’s just so nice. The monitors there are just unbelievable. We look fifteen times the size of a normal person on their monitors there. It’s unbelievable so I can’t ask for a better place to fight.
MMAyou.com: Good, you deserve it. Is the feud with you and Frank Shamrock over?
Thomson: (laughs) Why cause I helped coach Cung to whip his ass? It was kind of over for me before that. I think that was just more of Frank underestimating the abilities of Javier Mendez his old coach and I think he thought that I wouldn’t be of any type of (inaudible) to Cung when in fact I think if anyone knew him better then… The only person that knew him better then Frank would be Crazy Bob Cook and I think the two of us probably know Frank better then he knows himself. We read it like a book. He gave us all the ingredients that we needed by the way he trashed talk so we kind of figured he was gonna be dumb enough to come out there and stand with Cung and we knew Cung would come out and slay the beast.
My beef with Frank is pretty much… It’s been done. He’s taken this whole thing to like a next level of just immaturity and I’ve just kind of snickered and laughed about it which only makes me believe I’ve gotten under his skin a lot more then he’s gotten under mine. I just laugh and snicker about it because he’s a grown ass man acting like a little kid.
MMAyou.com: If you ever fought BJ Penn how would that fight go down?
Thomson: (laughs) If I ever fought BJ Penn…. I mean you gotta fight him aggressive, you gotta be in his grill. I think Sean showed a lot of skills in the way he fought but BJ is just the bigger fighter as far as body styles and stuff so I think in that situation you have to be in BJ’s grill. You gotta be in his face pushing the pace. I see it probably for the first round me getting my ass kicked and in the second and third and fourth and fifth round pushing the, kind of push the pace beyond what he can handle. That’s the only thing I can really suggest.
We don’t really know the new BJ right now at 155. He looked great through two and a half, three rounds. He looked phenomenal so who knows if he gets tired anymore and that’s just something I’m basing this off of (both laugh). So hopefully my pace that I can set would be good enough to where I can push the pace enough on him and maybe fatigue him out and look to get on top.
MMAyou.com: Is there anything you would like to say to our readers?
Thomson: Hey man, just keeping watching. You’re going to see a great show on HD Net with me and Gilbert, it’s the main event. If you miss it then you can catch it on NBC. I believe it’s after “Poker After Dark” and you’ll get the replay in I believe two or three weeks after. It’ll be a great fight so please watch. We’ll see you guys around. Hopefully you like the style.
For more information on Josh Thomson please visit www.joshthomson.com. For more information on his upcoming fight with Gilbert Melendez please visit www.strikeforceusa.net.
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