Matt Hughes comments on potential opponents:
Heavy.com: At UFC 103, we saw some fresh faces coming up - Paul Daley beating Kampmann, Vitor Belfort beating Rich Franklin. Do you plan on throwing a monkey wrench into their plans?
Matt Hughes: "As far as who I fight next? You know, looking at these younger kids who are wanting to come in and be the next world champion or be the next contender, I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't know if I'll take on those guys.
There are plenty of older guys out there with big names who can fight, too. I like to take fights where I've got something to win. If I take a fight against Mike Swick or Josh Kosheck, I've really got nothing to gain from that fight besides a paycheck and beating somebody up. They've got more to win than I do. Those aren't the kinds of fights that interest me.
Royce Gracie was a big fight, you know? It was a huge name, a guy that had won the old tournaments in the beginning. Those are the fights I like, the ones I can really get revved up for and get motivated. Those are the kinds of fights that gets me into the gym ready to train and work."
Heavy.com: Would a fight with Hallman motivate you?
Matt Hughes: "It might. I lost to him, but I've gone on and done bigger and better things since then. It just seems like I was the only guy he could ever beat. He just hasn't done much except for beating Matt Hughes twice. That's what I dislike about that fight. Who else has he beat? The last time he beat me was in 1999. We're talking ten years or so since he last beat me, and he hasn't done anything since."
HT: Heavy.com
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Not saying he doesnt have a valid point,
because a fight with Koscheck, Daley, or Swick wouldnt do much for his legacy, but deep down he has to know he would prolly lose those fights.
"I will knock your hair black!"- Ken Shamrock to Tito Ortiz
by FutureChamp on Oct 7, 2009 5:08 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Matt, you just signed a new contract. You have been giving us a long list of people you don’t want to fight. Is there any one you DO want to fight?
by SanDiegoMMA.net on Oct 7, 2009 5:53 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
If he wants a bigger name, then do some catch weight fights with fighters out of the 185 pound or the 155 pound. I mean personally, a Dan Henderson vs. Matt Hughes Fight at 180 would be an awesome one to see, (obviously this WILL NOT happen) I mean there is just not enough “names” in the 170 pound division that would be on the level of Royce Gracie or GSP, there is not enough star power to match Hughes in that division, because there is AKA, then prospects… so Matt Hughes might not be fighting for quite some time.
by "Mr. NC-17" on Oct 7, 2009 7:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Frank Trigg?
is the only name i can come up with…sexyama?… not many good fights for huges that don’t involve him loosing badly…
by Beren on Oct 7, 2009 8:52 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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The claims that Hughes is calling Renzo old is a complete fabrication from a writer struggling to find a story, so he is making one! I was next to the two guys when they were doing their interviews both times in Miami. Hughes was having fun with the interview and making a references to how the young new generation of fighters has arrived, and how him and Renzo were the older guys fighters in the division. So Cofield turns this, and tells Serra that "Matt called Renzo old" in an attempt to create fireworks. A gracious Serra (after his win) saw right through it, and said Hughes must have been kidding. Then Serra said, if Matt thinks Renzo old than Hughes is taking Renzo too lightly. All of a sudden he's pushing a story that Serra said, "Hughes is taking Renzo too lightly".
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