Matt Hughes signs multi-fight UFC contract

YAWN!!!!

Getting old.

Honestly – who really cares??? I’d be more excited watching Kalib Starnes running away from whomever on an episode of Cops.

I seem to recall Serra and Hughes butting heads early in that fight, which caused Hughes to collapse. I was drunk though, so my memory could be fuzzy.

Yea but it’s not like he’s doing that on purpose, he’s swinging at their dome, where the fist lands isn’t entirely his fault when their movin around anyway. But throughout the fight, overall, Serra was workin the jits, he was swingin for the fences, he was tryin to make something happen. Just didn’t seem like Hughes was tryin to win that one, he was just holdin on for dear life.

I know but I’m a Hughes fan and I always come down hard on Serra. Just kinda lame how much crap he gets for losing to GSP and Thiago, to be honest Hughes was never dominate. If you go back and look at his fights he a lot of times was losing the fight and pulled off a great win, thats what I always look forward to. Him getting the crap kicked out of him but still sticking in there until the bitter end, I have never seen Hughes quit in the middle of a fight.

I’ll give you that, I don’t like the guy but his fight with Trigg was pretty awesome. I also noted that Penn in the 2nd fight and GSP in his 1st fight were both beating Hughes down and he came back. Just doesn’t seem like he’s the same guy anymore, or maybe the game has just moved too far past him.

I really believe he has BJ syndrome. So much of his dominance was just natural talent and farmboy strength. Sure he trains, but he is not as explosive and hungry as these young up-and-comers.

lol, Wayne you’re so wrong… Hughes trains like every top fighters trains.

I would say yes and no. yes he trains hard and gets strong and adds great cardio. No, however because he doesnt train smart enough to compete with truly multi-dimensional fighters. Hughes is way to one dimensional and has never really worked to improve his stand-up by bringing in quality coaches. His downfall is that he relies to much on his ground game and makes it easy for fighters to formulate game plans when perparing to fight him. The greats like Anderson are hard to prepare for becasue they can fight effectively everywhere and please no on say Silva is bad on the ground. His ground game isnt as good as his tand-up becasue his stand-up is insane, his ground game is just very good. Having said all that, Hughes will only be a gatekeeper from here on out…..at best. I can’t see im ever being a main event, except if the fighter he is fighting is a bigger name that can draw.

Sorry about the typos, didn’t read it over.. but you will get the point..hopefully.

I don’t get it, the typos are killin me

I kid btw.. just incase..

Cantrim, don’t worry, I never said once that Anderson wasn’t well rounded. For Hughes though, you can’t say that “he never really worked to improve his stand-up by bringing in quality coaches.” I don’t know who was the striking coach at Miletich, like I don’t know who’s the one at HIT squad, but Until 3 years ago the Miletich camp was one of the best camp with great strikers (Jens, Drew, Robbie). I agree though, that he’s still a one dimensional wrestler, but he sure did, always had top fighters around him.

Alpha, so does BJ. All these guys pretty much train the same. I’m referring more to the heart, drive, intensity, killer instinct. Whatever you want to call it. Also two guys can go through the same camp and one will come out more improved. Just because he does the same routine as other top guys doesn’t mean he does it with as much intent. He’s just going through the motions. Still working on the farm. Not adjusting his style. I stand by my statement. I don’t think he’s as focused and dedicated on fighting and improving as the younger contenders. Maybe I’m wrong. Glad I gave you a chuckle though.

Wayne, I don’t agree with your “BJ syndrome”. BJ wasn’t training at all. He was maybe training 2hrs/day, that’s it. THe best guys that he had in his gym are… Grove, McCully and Lauzon. Nothing to compared with Hughes. Yeah, he doesn’t seems to improve his stand-up but you can’t have the right to say that, this guy doesn’t have the heart, drive, intensity like the youngsters have.

If he tried to work on his stand-up through is career then something was really wrong. I say that becasue his stand-up is brutal. His technique and power are almost laughable. Thats the reason why I say he didn’t properly work on his stand-up, becasue it has always sucked. The old excuse that they are wrestlers and new to the stand-up game doesnt hold water anymore becasue there are a ton of wrestlers entering the UFC who are becoming very good stand-up fighers with the proper dedication and training, Matt Hughes..not one of those guys. I think maybe he just paid lip service to training on his stand-up, but it didn’t ever show.

THe problem with HUghes is that he never trains with anyone better then him. Who is his best training partner? Lawler? How can he compete with the best, when the best (gSP) is training with top middle and light heavyweights?

I also think he is lazy. Maybe not azy, but just too damn cocky to work hard. He admitted that he came into his title fight against newton only training the week of the fight cause he was too busy on the farm…NOt the epitomy of hard work if you ask me!

I really have no desire of ever seeing him fight again. I used to be a big fan, but I cant respect a guy that has been in the game forever, and stil cant throw a decent punch…why do you think I hate Tito? I wont accuse Hughes of being a lay n pray guy, cause I always appreciated that as a dominant wrestler, he implemented his ju jitsu…but those days are over! IM getting Fed up with the UFC signing all these big named washed up fighters like hughes, coleman, Baroni….

One word – Hazelett. To think chucky made it to dancing with the stars before Matt Yous.

Hughes doesnt train with Hazlett. Dustin rolls with Gurgel

Anyways, you’re wrong john. Timmeh, Jens, Lawler all are former champs and were champs during their time at Miletich while Matt was there. You can’t say that he never trains with anyone better then him. You know better than that.

No doubt everyone just hates these days. As I stated before and a few of you understood, Hughes has never been a dominate fighter. Please go back and look at his tapes, he’s always shown weak stand up game. He’s flat footed people, thats why we say its hard for a wrestler to learn striking. GSP has never been a wrestler so for you to use him is completely apples to oranges. I realize he’s bitter about his losses but the guy never backs down from a challenge, when Serra pulled out due to being a sally Hughes asked for GSP, where he got severly man handled. He wasn’t afraid to go for a second time against Penn, and though he could have tapped to Penn earlier he never did and held out for the win. The man is a cardio machine who takes serious punishment. There are not many fighters who can take the damage he took against GSP in their second fight. Hughes will always be on the main card because he is better than just a gatekeeper. I still believe he has it in him to beat top opponents, I just don’t think he can handle strikers on the level of GSP or Thiago. Try Kos and I bet we’ll be suprised by who wins.

i still havent seen that fight…thats how little I care about hughhes

No doubt about that. Doesn’t Maia look like he could make 170? GSP will put him right where he wants to be.

Yeah, Maia looks like he could make 170. I’d say GSP would be much more likely to pick Maia apart on his feet. GSP always has great gameplans, and GSP is a terrific kickboxer. Good gameplans involve taking a guy out of his comfort zone, and I’m sure that’s what Jackson and co would want him to do.

Maia should definately see if he can make 170. He looked about half the size Nate was in his last fight. I wish we could have seen a round or so to judge what kind of fight it would have been if he wasn’t laid out right away, but he still looked awfully small.

Yea but Georges likes to use his wrestling a lot now a days; and A. Silva’s got the better stand up of the two. If Maia were gonna roll the dice against one of them I’d say go for GSP. There’s a possibility that Georges takes the fight to the ground where Maia could work jits, and his stand up isn’t as dangerous as Silva’s. I’m almost 100% sure on that one that Maia never gets Georges to the ground though unless GSP decides the fight goes there. Might be screwed either way.

Your are probably right, but I would still want to see it over, Swick/Kampmann or Condit. It just seems like all those fights are “busy work” for GSP. Seriously, what is he going to do after the next fight. Dana won’t let him fight Anderson, so who is he going to fight?

I think the jump to 185 is inevitable; he’s going to be in A. Silva’s shoes pretty soon. The division is just about cleared out (if not already) of interesting fights for Georges and he’ll have to move up to 185 just for the sake of competition. I agree with Georges though, if he’s going to go up to 185, give him the 6-8 month lay off to build his body up.

lol, calm down with those GSP/Maia talks. GSP would KO Maia just like Nate did. GSP is a strong guy. He knock down Hugues, Fitch, Thiago, all tough guys.Maia would be KO right at the stares down.

So you would rather see GSP/Swick? Right…

Why not?

One thing I haven’t heard discussed is that bulking up like that requires doing less cardio. It’s hard to pack on 10 pounds of pure, lean muscle if you’re training four hours a day. Georges would have to bulk up and then he’d need time to get his conditioning back up, which is such a huge part of his game.

Anderson Silva has a frame well-suited to 205. At 6’2, all he needs to do to make 205 is not diet like he does to make 185, where he is very skinny. Bulked-up or not, GSP will be one of the smaller middleweights in the UFC at 5’10. I don’t like it.

GSP can have a few fights at 185, but he belongs at 170 and that’s where he should stay. If he’s so damn good nobody beats him, that’s the rest of the division’s problem,, not his. It’s like guys want to penalize him for his excellence by forcing him into a division where he doesn’t physically belong. New threats will emerge in his division, and Georges has the chance to set new standards for wins and consecutive title defences. Why the hell can’t he do that without the haters demanding he move up and fight guys that are way bigger than him?

I still find it entertaining watching greatness dominate, even if it’s one-sided at times. Tiger Woods is fun to watch. The ’80’s Oilers were fun to watch. the Patriots a couple years ago were fun to watch. Brazil at the World Cup is fun to watch. Just because Tiger Woods is a way better golfer than anyone else in the world, should he have to start with a five-stroke handicap to make the tournaments closer, and therefore more exciting? Of course not, the suggestion is preposterous. So is demanding that GSP fight at a weight class where he steps into the cage for every fight at a clear disadvantage.

Agreed w/ Alpha. GSP would KO Maia with some sweet looking strikes. And his TD defense would give Maia fits.

Maia would have to propel himself like one of those facehuggers from the Alien movie at about 60 mph and attach himself to GSP’s neck…

Then, I might give him a shot…

Because Swick has no chance. He has very fast hands, but it is highly unlikey he will give GSP the Goulet treatment and no chance of a Swickotine. Maia, on the other hand, strengths play right into what GSP likes to do best lately. He puts everybody on their back now. I have to believe at some point that fight goes to the ground and that is what I want to see. I haven’t totally given up on Maia because he got caught in 20 seconds by Nate. GSP doesn’t have Nate’s power BTW.

Yea but Georges is too smart and Maia’s striking is too deficient to really hurt GSP enough to absolutley have to take the fight to the ground. I think it’d be interesting if he just did like A. Silva does and takes a non title fight at 185 every now and again. They could match him up with the Bisping/Kang winner just to test the waters or maybe even Akiyama (Though Akiyama could realistically fight at 170 I guess).

If you say so! Go ask Chambers, just for the fun. That fight wouldn’t pass the 1st rnd either.

Hell Irvin dropped down to 185 lol, feed him to another P4P fighter, let him relive the nightmare all over again.

That and I wanna see what Georges looks like next to a guy like Bisping or Kang or even Belcher, just to guage his strength at 185. If he’s going to lose on just size to A. Silva he may as well not even make a run at that division.

Great post JJ!

BOOOOOOOO JJ!! GOLF IS NOT FUN TO WATCH! BOOOOOOOO

HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS !

Golf is only exciting when a brawl breaks out!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Watch Sunday of the Master’s and drink a beer a hole. Gaurenteed fun for everyone. 8-)

Fine. Mike Tyson was fun to watch?

I just don’t think GSP should have to move up in weight and fight guys bigger than him for our entertainment. It seems like the guys who are most adamant that he do this are also the guys who have expressed a dislike for GSP and a desire to see him get knocked out.

People talk about P4P, but most of them don’t even understand the definition. P4P implies that you are better at YOUR given weight than any other fighter is at THEIR given weight. Moving up and fighting the best guy in a weight class well above yours establishes nothing.

I’m sure he will fight at 185 sooner or later, and I’m not saying I don’t want to see it. I just think his focus should be on dominating his division and setting new UFC records. And if he never does fight at 185, anyone who criticizes him for it is an idiot.

good post jeremyjack!~

i agree, i don’t want to see gsp at mw ever..

i like to watch golf sometimes..it’s really good to nap to..lol..
i am not so excited about matt hughes anymore..yeah he still has game..but it’s like the are rehashing the fighters of yesterday..i say make room for fresh blood..
the way they seem to be looking back instead of forward..geez i heard they were digging up tanner..ohh that was bad..sry!!

nothing wrong with a little golf, fella’s.

Oh, good post Mr. Jackson. I think more good guys at 170 is the answer. Shields and Diaz perhaps. The only reason I want to see GSP go to 185 is to see him lose. ;-)

lol, sarah!~

Yea but if the UFC signs Shields or Diaz it takes away from JJ’s beloved SF events!!! BTW, I think Diaz would put up a good fight, but Shields would get dominated.

OJR: You’re exactly right, I couldnt’ have said it better myself. Golf has the same style sticks, but they need to incorporate some of the hockey intensity to really shake things up.

Even the golf commentators sound like they’re about to fall asleep.

shields and diaz should be fighting in the ufc..

sf is a minor leauge for “up and comers” and “vet’s on their way out”

smaller promotions are definitely needed, but all fighters should strive to be on the big stage.. just like all the other sports.. u don’t see kobe playing ncaa..

peeps have been trying to convince the ceaser boys to go ufc for a while now!~

nick would definitely be a top ww, his next time around the octagon!~

sarah, when soccer is on I do the same thing. Nothing better after a 12 hour night at work than a soccer game to put you to sleep

Golf would also be fun if there is a shot glass filled with mystery alcohol at each hole.

After downing each drink, you have to submit a chunky golfer like John “Trainwreck” Daly or Phil “Man-Tits” Mickelson.

Octagon girls would be holding those little flags in skimpy bikinis…

I agree with your hole post stinky. Anbody know when their SF contracts are up?

I agree with Stink… nothing wrong with a little golf!

hole LOL…

Is that BNF or the Pink Pounder?

I’m a huge caesar gracie fighter fan, Diaz is top 10, I’m not sold on shield’s stand up yet

golf is awesome

You got that right. I played high school and div.2 college golf. Some of the most beautiful places that you’ll see are golf courses. I’m going up to Monterey later this month (only couple hours away) to play a little Poppy Hills. Everybody, golfer or not, needs to visit 17 mile drive there.

Penn/Sanchez at 107. Man, what a card. weird how they are doing the Primetime special for Rampage/Rashad and it will be a co-mainer now. Also, I wonder what this means for the rumored November network TV event.

Wow Kev, nice to see you’re backing off that “Diaz top-5 P4P” nonsense.

I played in a tournament like that OJR, my dads buddy own a strip club and they put it on. Girls at every hole, booze, party after at club… unbelievable.. buy the way I was a 7 handcap, haven’t played in years though!

he prob is though JJ, but I’ll keep it real!

OJR I’m in mod for writing LMAO.

LMAO!

lmao BNF!

hey i actually like golf and i have just started to play it this summer and i ain’t too shabby either..
i dunno about soccer being the best to sleep to cuz it’s definitely louder than golf..(ya can’t even hear the players fart!! lol)..
any sport is better with hot chicks too..i’m just sayin..lol

you do know affliction folded right?

im assuming you meant strikefarce, i mean force.

you had it right the first time

whats wrong with strikeforce?

They don’t have a U, an F, and a C in their logo. And Dana said bad things about them. It’s way better having no fights to watch on weekends where the UFC doesn’t have events. Gives me time to work on my knitting.

Well said JJ, btw, I’ve got a new blanket and new sweater design to send you; mine are coming along very well. I figure we can swap tricks of the trade.

Nice OD. Let me know when my mittens are done.

Ko’s would beat Hughes, it would make an interesting fight to hype. I’d rather see Hughes take on Karo Parisyan.

Maybe, I could only pray for a double KO. ;-)

both frequent fliers on the MMAMania sh*t list

I’m not ashamed to say I bagged a couple of fine cougars in my day. The messed-up thing now is, the chicks I used to look at as Cougs are my age!

Oh, the humanity…

:-(

Hahaha!

LOL; good stuff