Matt Hughes inducted into UFC Hall of Fame at 2010 Fan Expo
by Jesse Holland on May 29, 2010 2:33 AM EDT
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It was surely just a matter of time.
Former UFC welterweight champion Matt Hughes (44-7) has officially joined Chuck Liddell, Randy Couture, Mark Coleman, Ken Shamrock, Dan Severn, and Charles "Mask" Lewis in the UFC Hall of Fame.
"Country Breakfast" was inducted during the UFC 2010 Fan Expo on May 28.
In addition to multiple appearances on The Ultimate Fighter (TUF), Hughes is perhaps best known for his run as 170-pound champion over the past decade, with memorable wars against Georges St. Pierre, Frank Trigg and BJ Penn.
From Hughes, courtesy of UFC.com:
"I just never thought about it, to be honest, so yeah, it came out of the blue.I really thought a lot about it the first couple of days after Dana told me, and I really didn't know what to think about it. I've always been the type of guy who thought that somebody who gets inducted into the Hall of Fame needs to be a retired individual. That's just my train of thought. But I'm very privileged and I thank the UFC. I took this up as just a hobby, something to occupy my time and to vent some aggressiveness and be competitive. I never thought that I would be in the position that I'm in today. Shaking hands, signing autographs, being a world title holder and being inducted into the Hall of Fame, this is beyond what I ever would have pictured my life being."
For the record Matt Hughes has:
• 44 pro wins
• 17 UFC wins (most all-time)
• 2 welterweight championship reigns
• 7 successful title defenses (most ever)
• 9 championship fight wins (tied with Randy Couture for most ever)
• 5 knockout wins in championship fights (tied with Couture and Chuck Liddell for most ever)
• 5 successful consecutive welterweight title defenses (1st all-time)
• 12 welterweight championship fights (1st all-time)
• 27 welterweight championship rounds fought (tied for 1st all-time with Georges St-Pierre)
• 3 submission wins in welterweight championship fights (1st all-time)
• 6 former or current UFC champions defeated by Hughes (St-Pierre, Serra, BJ Penn, Dave Menne, Sean Sherk, Carlos Newton)
Congratulations to Matt Hughes.
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Hughes is a pretty polarizing figure
but, I’m a fan. And, I’m glad they put him in the Hall of Fame right now. Good move.
yea i agree...hes the greatest ww champ of all time...he has 9 total wins in title fights, including 7 successful defenses...
his 17 ufc wins are the most wins in company history….he deserves to be in the hall of fame more than ANYONE currently in it if you want to go by accomplishments alone…
yea gsp will eventually break all his records…but as of this very moment matt hughes has accomplished probably more than any fighter in ufc history…..17 ufc wins…9 total title fight wins…
you know you're having some good sex when you start planning what you're gonna say in the 911 call afterwards...
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koscheck has 13 ufc wins, which is only 4 away from the most wins in ufc history
oh and 8 of koscheck’s 13 wins have been by (t)ko or sub….just wanted to point that out to people who call him a “lay and prayer”
you know you're having some good sex when you start planning what you're gonna say in the 911 call afterwards...
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yea dude i swing from them like jungle vines
you know you're having some good sex when you start planning what you're gonna say in the 911 call afterwards...
HellaHectic - banned from over 30 sites and counting...
by HellaHectic on May 29, 2010 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions
GSP is the greatest Welterweight of all time
Hands down.
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by daniel worby on May 29, 2010 11:36 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
by the way hella GSP has 14 wins in UFC
14-2 UFC plus this lil laundry list:
MMAPayout
Fighter of the Year 2009
World MMA Awards
Fighter of the Year 2009
Sports Illustrated (SI.com)
Fighter of the Year 2009
Inside MMA on HDNET
Fighter of the Year 2009
MMAJunkie.com
Fighter of the Year 2009
Fighters Only
2008 Submission of the Year
Rogers Sportsnet Canadian Athlete of the Year (2008)
Rogers Sportsnet Canadian Athlete of the Year (2009)
TKO Major League MMA
TKO Canadian Welterweight Championship (1 time)
Ultimate Fighting Championship
UFC Interim Welterweight Championship (1 time)
UFC Welterweight Championship (2 times, Current)
Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
Most Outstanding Fighter (2008, 2009)
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by daniel worby on May 29, 2010 11:46 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
and my silly friend alicia thinks shes gonna marry him
Silly girl. Get in line. He’s mine.
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by daniel worby on May 29, 2010 11:54 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
To be fair Worby I think he would be more interested in you haha
Serously GSP is the best WW champion of all time, Hughes is a legend and deserves his spot in the HOF but GSP is the better athlete and has not only beaten but dominated better guys. If he fought more often then he’d gave blitzed through all of Matts records. Him and Andy are the 2 most dominant champions in UFC history and it’s exciting watching true sporting greatness even if sometimes they disappoint.
"Kimbo Slice sucks like I've been saying for the last few months, this fucking guy can't fight and he got knocked out in 13 seconds" (Dana White)
"The one thing we know about Kimbo Slice, this guy is a fighter, this guy will come to fight" (Dana White)
by David W-S on May 29, 2010 12:35 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
perfectly put David... oh and watch out for Brilz tonight! ;)
Lol funny kids.
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by daniel worby on May 29, 2010 3:08 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Boy were we close to looking very silly
Props to Brilz for pushing Lil Nog to the limit.
"Kimbo Slice sucks like I've been saying for the last few months, this fucking guy can't fight and he got knocked out in 13 seconds" (Dana White)
"The one thing we know about Kimbo Slice, this guy is a fighter, this guy will come to fight" (Dana White)
uh.
magazines and websites giving you fighter of the year aren’t really career accomplishments.
Especially considering when Hughes would have won all of those, MMA wasn’t really legitimized to the public scene.
yea buddy, thats kinda why i listed them above
And beyond what he’s already accomplished. You use what little recognition for Hughes due to not being that big at the time? Neither was the competition. Look at GSP’s record man. 14-2 in UFC and on like what a 7 fight win streak and 12-1 in his last 13? Incredible.
They are still accomplishments. And I supplied others.
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by daniel worby on May 29, 2010 2:26 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
GSP is a future Hall of Famer no doubt.
But if he dry humps is next opponent for 5 rounds and doesn’t finish them then I will be rooting against him for sure.
Just imagine if Jake Shields came to the UFC to fight GSP
It would be like 25 minutes of gay porn! LMAO! I just hope to seeing the spectacular GSP we all loved once again. Maybe it’s not his fault he may just be following a gameplan that’s given to him I don’t know. I guess if you are on top of someone the whole fight then you can’t do what Matt the Munguloid Serra did to him.
when dana comes to his senses and gets nick diaz back he will
fight gsp and stop his takedowns. then diaz will pick apart (with his body and face strikes)gsp like a teenage girl picking her zits. lol.
I'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. I was building a house, I don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. Bang. "Unforgiven" I drink your milkshake. I drink it up! "There Will BE Blood". Hell is just a word, the reality is much much worse." Event Horizon". Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean, I mean plumb, mad dog mean. cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live or win. That's just the way it is. "The Outlaw Josey Wales". "And that's just what these hustlers look for. They cruise from casino to casino looking for weak dealers the way lions look for weak antelope". Ace Rothstein, The Movie "Casino" 1995. My name is puzzy, puzzy galore. I must be in heaven. "Goldfinger" The man with the midas touch. To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf. "Training Day".
by wolfmanshowlforever on May 29, 2010 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah who'd want to watch a fight between 2 of the best grapplers and WWs in MMA today?
"Kimbo Slice sucks like I've been saying for the last few months, this fucking guy can't fight and he got knocked out in 13 seconds" (Dana White)
"The one thing we know about Kimbo Slice, this guy is a fighter, this guy will come to fight" (Dana White)
you think gsp has a shirt at home with all those title's?
I'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. I was building a house, I don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. Bang. "Unforgiven" I drink your milkshake. I drink it up! "There Will BE Blood". Hell is just a word, the reality is much much worse." Event Horizon". Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean, I mean plumb, mad dog mean. cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live or win. That's just the way it is. "The Outlaw Josey Wales". "And that's just what these hustlers look for. They cruise from casino to casino looking for weak dealers the way lions look for weak antelope". Ace Rothstein, The Movie "Casino" 1995. My name is puzzy, puzzy galore. I must be in heaven. "Goldfinger" The man with the midas touch. To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf. "Training Day".
by wolfmanshowlforever on May 29, 2010 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions
i would if i was him
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by daniel worby on May 29, 2010 3:55 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Yeah..
Records are made to be broken, though.
This guy set an incredible bar in his career however.
Legendary.
he is a dominating figure in MMA
but I still think he’s a dick and a douche…but more of a dick than a douche
indeed, good move
to put him in now rather than later, though I agree with Matt that generally the Hall of Fame should come after you’ve retired.
yea but in that case there wouldnt even BE a hall of fame cause pretty much everyone still fights
randy, coleman, chuck, hughes, shamrock (is he in? i forget) except for mask who is dead…but everyone else still fights…i actually cant remember who is all in but i know that every inductee still fights somewhere in the world
you know you're having some good sex when you start planning what you're gonna say in the 911 call afterwards...
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i dont think Dan Severn still does lol...
And Coleman hasn’t since being fired but he may somewhere other then UFC soon.
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by daniel worby on May 29, 2010 11:48 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
or Royce Gracie
So 2 defnitely do not. But, I see what you mean, it loses some legitimacy when the majority of the fighters were still active at the time of being inducted. Kinda cheeseball’ish but they are just trying to make the UFC more legit lol.
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by daniel worby on May 29, 2010 11:52 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Severn may still fight on small shows
He was supposed to be having a retirement tour nit that long ago but I think that he still competes on smaller shows. Gracie may come back for one more fight as well and he only stopped fighting because of his drugs ban.
"Kimbo Slice sucks like I've been saying for the last few months, this fucking guy can't fight and he got knocked out in 13 seconds" (Dana White)
"The one thing we know about Kimbo Slice, this guy is a fighter, this guy will come to fight" (Dana White)
by David W-S on May 29, 2010 12:37 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
THE MOST DESERVED . . . .
A massive congratulations to Matt Hughes! I have watched his fights from day one & he has produced some classics. I especially loved the bouts against, GSP, Penn, Trigg, Newton! ! !
what a tool.....but a legend non the less
Think this bloke is a right berk!!! But he Is fully deserving of his place in the hof
by xmirrorboyx on May 29, 2010 6:49 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Thoroughly deserved
On top of all his accomplishment he’s put on some of the best fights ever. Both Trigg fights and Penn II were simply amazing fights. It always seemed like he had to fight his way back into fights against the top guys of the time but he always did.
Well done Hughes
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by Shoguns Hairy Forearms. on May 29, 2010 8:23 AM EDT reply actions
this should have happened a long time ago
matt is a legend.
The one thing (or maybe two) that makes UFC's HoF looks stupid is that mask retard (dunno why coleman is in there either)
by Lester The Pimp on May 29, 2010 10:03 AM EDT reply actions
coleman belongs
No problem with mask either
I'm not afraid of dying, I'm a little bit scared of what comes after
by SouthCaliStunNa on May 29, 2010 10:45 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
yes there is a "problem" with mask
who’s next to get inducted? the janitor at UFC HQ perhaps?
by Lester The Pimp on May 29, 2010 11:21 AM EDT up reply actions
idk, mask did alot for the company, but i think there shud be a fighter section and a behind the seens section, and if were going by behind the seens theres plenty of guys who deserve to be there far b4 mask does..
For what profit is it to man if he gains the world , and loses his own soul?
- Matthew 16:26
To put it bluntly he only got inducted because he died
HoFs should only ever be based on accomplishments not on any other criteria, it lessens the significance of being inducted if you add non-fighters because they died at the expense of true legends.
"Kimbo Slice sucks like I've been saying for the last few months, this fucking guy can't fight and he got knocked out in 13 seconds" (Dana White)
"The one thing we know about Kimbo Slice, this guy is a fighter, this guy will come to fight" (Dana White)
by David W-S on May 29, 2010 12:41 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
i think if he died of a heart attack at 70 hed of still been in!
its the facts the he started and was the figure head of a major fight sponsoring company, that brought attention to the sport as a whole.
I'm not afraid of dying, I'm a little bit scared of what comes after
by SouthCaliStunNa on May 29, 2010 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions
There's no chance that a t-shirt salesman would have been inducted unless he died at a young age
They were always going to induct Chuck last year, Mask was only added because he died. If it wasn’t about that then Punkass would have been inducted with him as they founded TapouT together.
"Kimbo Slice sucks like I've been saying for the last few months, this fucking guy can't fight and he got knocked out in 13 seconds" (Dana White)
"The one thing we know about Kimbo Slice, this guy is a fighter, this guy will come to fight" (Dana White)
by David W-S on May 29, 2010 1:46 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
i agree he was added at the time he was because he died
i think it would have happened regardless, tho.
as for Punkass, watch when he dies….
I'm not afraid of dying, I'm a little bit scared of what comes after
by SouthCaliStunNa on May 29, 2010 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions
always been my fav fighter..
great move, we all saw it comming cause it had to be done..
For what profit is it to man if he gains the world , and loses his own soul?
- Matthew 16:26
The first fight I ever saw was
watching Ultimate Knockouts on TV and I seen Hughes “powerbomb” Newton, and since then he was my favorite guy. Long list of accomplishments, and while his skills are not that great compared to today’s talent, in his prime he was (arguably) the BEST fighter in the world. People have a hard time grasping that. If you’re not good today, then you were never good. Hughes’ career has been WAY more productive than GSP’s (so far, and as a whole). Worby mentioned GSP’s awards but they’re a bunch of non-UFC awards, and like 5 different organizations giving him the 2009 fighter of the year. Thats great and all, but that little list standing next to Hughes’ accomplishments looks weak. The fighters Hughes beat were seen as just as tough as the guys GSP is beating.
Bottom line, Matt Hughes is the greatest WW champion of all time right now. GSP may eventually pass him, but right now, Hughes is the greatest.
John Hathaway over Diego Sanchez
Counting down the days till Shogun vs Rogerio 2
No. 2 member of the *Tibau to Featherweight* movement
Agreed
Matt Hughes is one of the most amazing fighters ever!!! I couldn’t agree more with everything you said Synyster. Hughes is still a great fighter, he is not the fighter he was because of age and the wear and tear over the years of fighting. ANd why are people bringing GSP into this? This is about MAtt Hughes not GSP. Give the man the respect he deserves and don’t talk about what GSP has done. Again congrats to Matt on a great career!!!
agreed. gsp is a puzzy and will lose to koscheck in upcoming fight.
crazy hair beats well dressed man everytime. lol.
I'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. I was building a house, I don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. Bang. "Unforgiven" I drink your milkshake. I drink it up! "There Will BE Blood". Hell is just a word, the reality is much much worse." Event Horizon". Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean, I mean plumb, mad dog mean. cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live or win. That's just the way it is. "The Outlaw Josey Wales". "And that's just what these hustlers look for. They cruise from casino to casino looking for weak dealers the way lions look for weak antelope". Ace Rothstein, The Movie "Casino" 1995. My name is puzzy, puzzy galore. I must be in heaven. "Goldfinger" The man with the midas touch. To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf. "Training Day".
by wolfmanshowlforever on May 29, 2010 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions
shutup brendog you:
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by daniel worby on May 29, 2010 3:20 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
future color of josh koschecks's hair?
I'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. I was building a house, I don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. Bang. "Unforgiven" I drink your milkshake. I drink it up! "There Will BE Blood". Hell is just a word, the reality is much much worse." Event Horizon". Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean, I mean plumb, mad dog mean. cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live or win. That's just the way it is. "The Outlaw Josey Wales". "And that's just what these hustlers look for. They cruise from casino to casino looking for weak dealers the way lions look for weak antelope". Ace Rothstein, The Movie "Casino" 1995. My name is puzzy, puzzy galore. I must be in heaven. "Goldfinger" The man with the midas touch. To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf. "Training Day".
by wolfmanshowlforever on May 29, 2010 4:10 PM EDT up reply actions
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