EDINBORO -- Josh Koscheck has had hundreds of workouts in Edinboro's wrestling room. Until Tuesday, none had ended with him punching Tim Flynn in the gut. No, the former NCAA champion and his former coach didn't get into a scrap after an overheated training session. Flynn was simply curious to feel what it's like to take a punch from an Ultimate Fighting Championships star.

Yeah. It hurts.

"I could hardly speak," Flynn said after Koscheck drilled him just below the ribs with a shot the current UFC welterweight contender insisted was only about 10 percent of full force.

"It's all placement," Koscheck said.

Perfecting the finer points of punch placement is a relatively recent pursuit for Koscheck, whose mixed martial arts career remains in its toddler years.

Handing out punishment in the basement of McComb Fieldhouse is nothing new. Koscheck did it routinely during his college career, which included four All-America finishes and back-to-back NCAA finals appearances.

He was back in the place where he first made headlines this week. He worked a coaches clinic before the season-opening Fighting Scot Duals, then stayed to work out with Edinboro's wrestlers and spar with former teammate Justin Wilcox, an aspiring mixed martial artist trying to follow in Koscheck's expanding footsteps.

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