UFC 117 Preview: Matt Hughes Says "I Want to Put (Ricardo Almeida) Down Hard"
by Nick Thomas on Aug 5, 2010 10:39 AM EDT
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"...Somebody just told me the other day that they’ve got Almeida ahead in the polls, so I like that. It’s a lot easier going in there being the underdog with nobody expecting you to win. ...I know this guy’s coming at me because I beat his two coaches and I don’t want to lose to a guy who wants to fight me because I beat his two coaches. Another thing is, he’s asked for this fight pretty bad and in my mind I want to put him down hard because I don’t want people asking to fight Matt Hughes left and right."-- Check out the full interview at ufc.com - Matt Hughes (44-7) vs. Ricardo "Cachorrao" Almeida (12-3).
"I don’t think he wants to stand with me or be underneath me, so I’ve been working on stopping takedowns. ...I think my style does work good because I’m the wrestler and I can control so much, as opposed to a jiu-jitsu guy, who’s all about technique. My power has a big play in it as well, so I think my style fits well with a jiu-jitsu guy, but for the most part, it’s just been good matchups for me."
"I want to be more dominant in there and I don’t want to go in there thinking I want to have a fun fight ...I’ve trained to go in there and hurt my opponent."
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I wonder if in Hughes’ mind that he thought he did well considering he actually got a stoppage and showed off leg kicks. I have his book, and there are times that he hasn’t really trained for his fights. He also trains at H.I.T. Squad where he is the leader of the group, and I don’t know if that will help him be a better fighter.
I'm not ready to count out Matt yet
In the past 9 years, he hasn’t lost at welterweight to anyone other than GSP or BJ. Sure Hughes didn’t look great against Henzo, but I don’t know if Almeida is the guy to beat him.
(I don’t count the Alves fight against Matt; that’s a f’ing crappy situation he was put in against a beast)
"Deserve's got nothing to do with it." -Will Munny, a known thief and murderer, a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition.
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