How does a dominate victory over a superb fighter knock you out of p4p contention? This is another guy like Randy to me. Sure he was a great fighter and also made the UFC their share of money. Yet there comes a time in a mans life when you should grow into something else. Bas for example.

Matt Hughes is a jerk. Great fighters can be dicks and Hughes is the king of all dicks. From his behavior (that is essentially that of a high school wrestling jock bully), to some of the things that are excerpted from his book (don’t ask), to stated opinions from fighters and their relatives that have encountered him (research his comments on Kim Couture), Hughes is just an asshole supreme and one of the very few people in the world of MMA that I simply cannot stand.

Nate did recognize Matt as an incredible UFC champ. Just not one with much to like other then that. It’s all perspective though. We as people hold people to different standerds. Because Matt was such a good champion and a ‘christian’ it’s weird to see him always act like a ego jerk. Why bother? Kinda like people not likeing Brocks lasso ride on Herrings back. Yet people laughed at Randy’s spanking of Tito.

eh ehmm..OJ was found not guilty. The glove didn’t fit remember?

What St. Pierre pulls off is a reversal and not a sweep. It’s also one Big Nog has hit on several occasions.

Hughes is a douchebag. What a sore loser. GSP is the future and he cannot handle it… he’s done. He had a good run.. but it’s done.

Rob Dib
http://www.break-you-face.com

As a bonus, in the extended entry there’s an animated gif of GSP pulling an absolutely brilliant sweep, the kind of move I doubt Matt Hughes could even diagram much less execute.

Strong words from a guy that doesn’t even know the difference between a sweep, reversal, or an escape. Hughes actually has pretty good jits for a wrestler, I think he learned most of it from Jeremy Horn. You are right about him being a dick, but then again, aren’t we all?

Must be pretty hard to realize that you’re no longer the top dog, but just a stepping stone.

I’m thinking Serra is his last fight. I don’t think his heart is in the sport anymore, despite what he’s said in the past about having a few more fights in him.

"Tim Sylvia walked over to me during practice. His back was hunched a bit, like Pat’s is, but Pat I could look in the face.

‘Can I talk to you a second?’ he asked.

"Sure thing." He led me into an office and we sat down on two chairs.

"No one here’s got a problem with me except you," he began.

"When I first started, Jens would say I’m a fat piece of s*** who’s never going to amount to anything, and he’d get me crying, but now even Jens likes me. Is there a problem?"

He was waiting for me to tell him there was a big misunderstanding or to apologise, like I wasn’t aware of what I was doing.

"Yeah, I really don’t like you," I told him.

"Is there a reason why?"

"I don’t think you’re a team player and I don’t think you work very hard," I said.

"How am I not a team player?"

"Remember that whole thing with that girl?" I reminded him.

He waved those ridiculously long arms of his in the air. "They weren’t even going out!"

"Yeah, but you knew that your teammate had a thing for her and you went for it anyway. But I don’t even care about that. I’m talking more about training.

"When somebody’s got a fight coming up, everybody tries to make sure the guy’s got some training partners to get ready.

"Everybody tries but you. Your first priority is always Tim, and I don’t think that’s a good attitude."

I wasn’t angry or even annoyed. I had as much emotion as if I were talking about the contents of a fridge.

"I don’t think you work very hard either. You’re a little sore and you don’t come in.

"Jens, who’s a champion, has been sore and he comes in. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been sore.

"No one’s ever going to be 100 percent. You just suck it up and you do it, period."

I didn’t care one way or another what he said in response – I assumed he’d get defensive or angry.

But he didn’t; he was reasonable.

"I’m actually hurt to hear you say that. I’ve been a huge fan of yours for a long time and I’ve been trying to model myself on some of your work ethics, and the way Jens works out and stuff like that, and it’s too bad you feel like this.

"There’s nothing more that I want than to be accepted by you and the rest of the guys."

"You don’t become accepted by buying yourself a ticket to Vegas, following us around while we’re there when no one really invited you, and then crying – again – when Jens calls you out on it."

"Is there anything I can do to be friends with you?"

"Well, right now I have enough friends and I don’t need any more friends," I said. "Is that it? Are we done here?"

He let out a deep breath. "Yeah, I guess."

"Good." I got up and left.

"So it’s four o’clock in the morning and they had everybody leave the club, right? Well, the UFC had bussed us all over there but they didn’t have a bus to take us back. It’s down to Mark, me [Pat Miletich], Tony Fryklund, Chuck Liddell, Tito [Ortiz] and Lee Murray. Lee Murray’s crew was still there, Tito’s crew was also still there. I walked out the back door to go in the alley. Tito’s buddy jumped on my back. He jumped on my back and acted like he had me in a choke hold, just messing around, you know? Then I felt him get ripped off of me. I turned around and Tony Fryklund had HIM in a chokehold, and was really choking him. The guy looked like a mouse that just got trapped in a mousetrap; his eyes were popping out and obviously he wasn’t breathing. Tony thought he was actually attacking me – that’s the only reason he did it. So I turned round and told Tony to let him go, and Tony let him go. Then Tito’s buddy turned around and basically said ‘what the f*** are you doing?’ to Tony. Well, when he said that, one of Lee Murray’s buddies, that one guy who kind of took care of us all week long, thought this guy was actually trying to fight us, so he ran out of the crowd and cracked this kid with a right hand and knocked him out cold…. The entire alley erupted into a huge brawl. I was just standing there, and there were bodies flying all over the place. I was confused how it all happened, because it happened so fast. I was standing there with my mouth open like ‘what the hell is going on?’ I looked over and Chuck Liddell was with his back against the wall, knocking people out that were trying to go after him. Then I looked over and there’s Tito directly past me, taking his coat off, going after Lee Murray, and Lee Murray’s backing up the alley taking his jacket off. Both their jackets come off, and Tito throws a left hook at Lee Murray and misses, and right as he missed, Lee Murray counters with, like, a five-punch combo, landed right on the chin, and knocked Tito out. OUT. Tito fell face-first down to the ground, and then Lee Murray stomped him on the face a couple of times with his boots."