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I had Serra winning and was shocked when it was Hughes getting the Unanimous Decision.

Hughes was less confident on his feet, did no damage in Serras guard and got the worse end of the 3rd round and got the UD!!! What the f*ck were the judges watching. Maybe if it was a spilt desision I wouldn’t feel so bad for Serra.

Yeah i am in agreement. I had Serra taking the fight 29-28.

Couldn’t believe it was a UD for Hughes.

Dude I don’t know how you COULDN’T give that fight to Matt Hughes. I gave Serra round 3, and that was only barely.

Round 1, illegal blow did all the damage, and Hughes threw him through the air, side control, back, rear naked choke. Serra did nothing

Round 2. Hughes gets a takedown, works from Half-guard. Wasnt doing much, but neither was Serra. Why wasn’t he attempting sweeps or retain guard or submissions? Instead he wants to play to the crowd and camera by rolling his eyes. What an idiot.

Round 3. Serra could have gotten somewhere with the omaplata, but was too scared. He rather hold him there and stand up, rather than take a chance at finishing. He did nothing. Weak Triangle. Did nothing in the stand up, which is where he was supposed to “own” Hughes. And finally mounted an offense in the last minute, which consisted of a foot sweep and 3 punches, followed by another half-ass submission attempt that he was too scared to follow through on.

Hughes landed the more punches on the feet too. It was only the occasional jab or jab straight left, but Serra hardly touched him. NO WAY Serra won that fight.

still havent watched the fight, but most of the bloggers on this site that I respect the most, have Serra winning the fight on the scorecards! Happy to hear that Serra put on a show. I said it last week that If Hughes was going to win the fight, it was going to be in a similar fashion to the snoozefest he beat Lytle with……From the sound of things, it sounds like my prediction wasnt too far off…..But I had Serra winning the fight. I even had a $25 bet on the Canoli Dwarf!

I am a big Serra fan and I think he has been improving as a fighter. I look forward to seeing him fight again, and hopefully I dont have to wait another year to see him in the Octagon!

I say GIve Serra the winner of Davis/Hardy!

That fight wouldn’t make sense to me John. That winner would seem to be just outside top 5 WW to me, and a fight with Serra wouldn’t do much. Hardy/Davis vs Swick/Saunders for a top 5 position WW

Synyster,

The blow to the back of the head is the critical part. But it wasn’t called so the judges technically shoudl have scored that round for Serra and maybe even 10-8 if they felt Hughes was barely hanging on (which he was.) I, personally, didn’t get too upset that they called it for Hughes because the fight started with a blow to the back of the head, but I was expecting them to call it for Serra.

prior to what we think Synyster…serra is ranked in the top 10 of most rankings, and has a pretty big name in the fight game, so I think Hardy/Davis do have a lot to gain by fighting/beating Serra. I am a fan of all parties involved but I dont think Serra would be outclassed by either fighter. I think it would make for a great match up.

Then again, I wont complain one bit if the winner of Hardy/Davis faces the winner of Killa B/Swick (which will be the Killa B)!!!!

john-

Bottom line. Hughes stand up looked like garbage. Serra was more aggressive but could not finish Hughes. It actually should have been a draw.

Serra – RD 1

Hughes – RD 2

Draw – RD 3

Synyster: Whilst you are entitled to your opinion….I totally disagree with it.

This fight had no clear winner but I felt Serra edged out Round 1 for the reasons PYITO gave and also Round 3.

Serra was more aggressive in the fight on the feet and Hughes looked unsure and 1 dimensional as always.

John, I was on the “otherhand” than Hughes, not you

“whilst”…nice work on that sentence ca$z

I didn’t really think Serra was aggressive at all. I thought he was rather passive and gunshy. He was going to the body alot and not really connecting.

Punch, 10-8?? Come ON man! No way. Maybe if Serra kept landing significant shots the rest of the round, but he only landed like 3 while Hughes was rocked. Hughes recovered VERY well after that incident.

John- Yeah, I know hes in the rankings and got name recognition, but the guy is 0-2 since ‘06? I honestly don’t think a win over him would do much for any of the mentioned. Maybe the loser of one of those fights, but I dont like matching up loser vs loser, especially with good fighters. Example, Nate vs Joe Daddy. Fight will end with one of these 2 upper echelon fighters with either 2 or 3 losses in a row.

And Hardy/Davis vs Swick/Saunders would be a better fight than either vs Serra imo.

Notice I didn’t put Hughes’ name in there. I dont think hes got much left to offer. I think he’ll beat Karo, but anyone else? I cant say I see it happening. Fight Karo in the Mid-West near your hometown, and then retire.

How the f..k,people,can possibly believe that Serra won the 1st round??
The,ONLY thing he did is stunning Hughes at the beginning of the roundHughes got a take down,wich nullified the stunning.
Then he got Serra’s back + he did try a RnC!What Serra did after that…Escape…PLEASE

Becuz Serra escaped that pitiful attempt at a RNC. Nullified, brother. Other than that, that round belonged to Serra. Sorry, dude but we obviously watched 2 different fights. I have no bias towards either fighter.

Agreed alpah male. Anybody that saw serra winning the fight saw it through very biased eyes. matt hUghes standup sucked…. which I am sure was a huge surprise to everybody (sarcasm) but serra’s standup sucked as well. Serra landed a couple of good shots after the unintentional head butt, butt was still unable to finish an unconcious matt hughes, then Hughes takes him down at will, not doing a lot of damage, but he was punching head and body, for the remainder of the fight. serra couldn’t get anything off standing, and was taken down at will.
hughes won the fight easily. Granted, Matt Hughes dry humped his way to another victory. Sadly, Serra was dry humped into defeat… easily. And was no way fight of the night material, I would have given it to Sherk-Edgar was a much more exciting fight. Serra has no chance at getting the ww belt again and doesn’t sound like he is interested at lw at all. Hughes is not getting the ww belt again, and should stay far away from a remacth with gsp or t alves.

The Sherk/Edgar fight wasn’t really a competitive back and forth fight. It wasn’t really exciting either. Just very surprising. Surprising at Edgar’s stand up and Sherk’s dumb gameplan.

OJR!Since when that a fighter get point for escaping an attemt??It’s ALWAYS the one who does the sub that got the credit.It’s like that 99% of the time!
AND I DON"T EVEN LIKE EITHER OF THEM!

Well OJR, Hughes escaped Serra’s pitiful finishing abilities, so that is nullified. I may have a bias toward Hughes, but I’m being dead honest with myself. Serra won round 3 and Hughes 1 and 2. I could watch it a thousand times and not understand how Serra gets round 1. Just like I dont see how Hughes could get round 3.

Regardless, I’m left with seeing Serra seem content to play defensive, stall and wait for a stand up instead of doing something himself, half-ass submission attempts, weak finishing abilities on a severely rocked opponent, and still wanting to hold on to this grudge hes got. You could tell when Joe inteviewed him that he still wasn’t over it. If he had won, I bet Serra would still be talking shit.

I just think it was a weak performance by Hughes, and an even weaker performance by Serra. Thats my opinion though.

Jon Fitch beat Diego by getting out of subs, but he also escaped to better positions on the ground.

But I think submission attempt > submission escape.

Synyster and Alpha-

We will agree to disagree. Thanks for your input.

No problem! :cool:
It seems that the 3 judges saw it the same way we did!

Matteo Serra won 29/28 in my opinion, but what’s even better is that SErra is the better fighter! He was much better on the feet, Hughes was keeping his hands low and just looked horrible in the standup, and Serra pretty wasn’t in any real trouble at all when Hughes was on top on the ground, he defended real well and they should have been stood up for that in the 2nd IMO… Then in the third he dominated from the bottom with submission attempts and scored a takedown on his own and landed punches with bad intentions which Hughes never did!.. Hughes is done man! His size was the only thing he had on Serra and there are other bigger WW’s that will take Matthew to school!!

Serra wasn’t in any real trouble at all*
not pretty wasn’t forgot to delete that…

Haha. Rob I disagree with literally EVERYTHING you just said. Crazy world of MMA, how 2 (or more) people can watch the same fight and have COMPLETELY opposing views on what happened. lol

yeah that’s cool.. I disagree with the scoring for getting out of subs and getting back to the feet after being taken down, the only reason they got there is because their opponent put them there and that should score wayy more points! like the Fitch fight, he lost the ground fight even if he was on top and all he did was escaping Diego’s subs..

I agree OJR, but it’s a 10 point MUST system!

I think the unintentional head butt set up the body shot so your both right cause imo it wasn’t much of a head butt

i didn’t think so either, but a body shot would drop him, not knock him out, and he was clearly ko’d!

Kevin-

True. I forgot. In that case I give it to Serra by a slim margin.

I agree. the 2 takedowns in the third nullify each other, and serra did way more from his back than hughes did on top! Serra won rds. 1 and 3!!!
the head butt counts as a knock down guys. The judges watch a fight like us, in real time, so it looked like serra dropped him with a body shot! It was a glancing blow (which is all it takes).

I agree with you kevin..