Comments on: Matt Hughes: “I found myself rooting for Serra”

By: marco

marco — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:31:30 +0000

I live in the same town as Matt, ive met him plenty of times. TRUST me he’s a gigantic, smelly, slimey, douche bag.

By: Isi

Isi — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:21:33 +0000

I don’t know what all the controversey is about. Matt Hughes is a douche-bag. There is empirical evidence to support this assertion. How is it that that acknowledgement exhibits a lack of class?

I love Matt Serra. I love GSP too. Though I think that GSP is likely pound for pound the best in the word (after Silva), I would have been just as happy if Serra had won. Maybe Serra as champ was a fluke.

Either way, when Serra fights Hughes, I will root for Serra. Why? Because Matt Hughes, as our author so succinctly put, is a douche-bag.

By: Beef

Beef — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:12:28 +0000

LOL, when i first read the title of the post I thought it meant that Hughes wanted Serra to win so that He could fight Serra for the title…

By: revjames13

revjames13 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:30:49 +0000

#16 … How is Hughes’ first fight with BJ Penn, where he was owned from the get go to his eventual submission not a legit loss?

By: Wang Chung

Wang Chung — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:58:47 +0000

geez, some of you have real selective takes on things. matt hughes doesn’t like serra because he cusses, and that’s not how a ‘champion should act’. matt serra on the other hand calls it like he sees it, and doesn’t put on any airs about himself. he knows he’s a short little mouthpiece and he doesn’t act like his shit doesn’t stink. hughes on the other hand constantly makes ironic statements about serra and for a guy who has kids making comments about wanting to see serra actually get really hurt out there isn’t exactly jesus-like. the guy is a little too hypocritical for my liking.

By: jason hughes

jason hughes — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:45:00 +0000

i dont think he need be talkin bout fighting niether of these guys right now.

By: Cabelo

Cabelo — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:22:55 +0000

That title….I thought I’d walked into the Twilight zone….

By: Eric S.

Eric S. — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:30:00 +0000

Friday is TGIF night on ABC. What’s gotten into you?

By: Shaun

Shaun — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:11:37 +0000

Facts are facts:

Serra is now considered a one hit wonder.

Hughes is considered out of his prime and soon to retire. But his only real legit losses are to GSP. The BJ & Chris Lytle fights weren’t good performances but wins.

GSP might be considered mentally weak or whatever, but he’s come back from two huge losses better than before. That’s what champs do. His last 3 fight since Serra he’s run through everyone not even close to damaged. Plus everyone has fights like GSP’s losses, shit happens. Besides GSP’s beaten the who’s who of MMA: Parisyan, Strasser, avenged losses to Hughes (twice) and Serra, beat Mayhem Miller, beat Jay Hieron who’s the champ at the IFL, beat everybody there is to beat. Him and Anderson are the world’s best.

But Serra vs Hughes will set the record straight for sure.

By: mark

mark — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:07:04 +0000

Serra will get a beat down from Hughes, alot worse then than the one gsp gave him, because he will be wanting to do as much damage as possible, Royce Gracie may be an old man now, but I like he still brings more then matt serra and hughes finished him in one round…

By: JollyDV

JollyDV — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:44:28 +0000

In both fights Hughes/GSP and Serra/GSP, Georges dominated the fights. They were pretty much the same fight, different fighter. Matt talks as much smack as Serra, he just leaves out the F word, and uses God’s name more often. In my heart of hearts, I would love to see Serra come out and whoop up on Matt. Don’t get me wrong, I respect Matt Hughes’s fighting abilitiy and the legacy that he has created, but I will be smiling from ear to ear when Serra beats him.

By: BJJDenver

BJJDenver — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:06:11 +0000

“Hopefully Serra and Hughes fight, and I bet there won’t be all kinds of huggy-kissy nonsense in the octagon after it’s over, like there was in GSP/Serra. It’s really punk to trash talk a guy for weeks and months and then kiss his ass after he wins. Stay hard or don’t run your mouth at all.”

I doubt there will be. Also, I think that showed much of the animosity between GSP and Serra was manufactured or overblown to make the fight a bigger sell.

By: BJJDenver

BJJDenver — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:04:15 +0000

Good to know he has been exercising.

Why did this conjure up an image of Hughes in a Jack LaLane jumpsuit, doing knee bends, lol?????????

By: mike wolfe

mike wolfe — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:58:17 +0000

Hopefully Serra and Hughes fight, and I bet there won’t be all kinds of huggy-kissy nonsense in the octagon after it’s over, like there was in GSP/Serra. It’s really punk to trash talk a guy for weeks and months and then kiss his ass after he wins. Stay hard or don’t run your mouth at all.

By: brian

brian — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:53:19 +0000

ya i think huges comments are justifyed.serra talks and talks on hughs and all hes ever done is a fluke knock out of gsp.hughes dominated (true when fighters thought it was proper to lay on their back and fight from guard…aka carlos newton!)..at least hughs has the credentials to talk the smack…serra didnt!

By: ctownhood

ctownhood — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:59:06 +0000

Serra losing to GSP may have been the best thing to happen for fans. Now we get to see Serra – Hughes sooner rather than later. GSP – Fitch should be a great fight as well.

By: TSG

TSG — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:22:10 +0000

I don’t think he’s referring to the douchebaggery implicit in THIS blog entry so much as the douchebaggery present in every waking moment of his life. Have you been following him very much? He sucks.

By: GirlyGirl

GirlyGirl — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:48:36 +0000

A douchebag? Are you kidding me?

He just said what we’re all thinking – that Serra got what he deserved!

By: Sam Cupitt

Sam Cupitt — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:58:51 +0000

When I become a journalist… I’ll worry about class.

By: Paul Hanna

Paul Hanna — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:46:02 +0000

But i love matt because he IS a d-bag.

if he was nice, who cares? Hes so fake nice that its entertaining!