UFC 135: Ultimate Matt Hughes Hits Stores Today
by Matthew Roth on Sep 20, 2011 6:01 PM EDT
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I love anthology DVDs. I'm a sucker for the ones that the WWE put out every month and always felt that the UFC was dropping the ball by not releasing their own versions about their most storied fighters. A couple years ago they released "Ultimate Iceman" which covered the life and career of Chuck Liddell. At that time I thought they missed the mark by not releasing "Ultimate Bad Boy" and "Ultimate Natural" as some sort of an anthology trilogy about Tito Ortiz and Randy Couture. Recently, it has become apparent to most fans that the UFC has shifted away from the DVD market in favor of VOD with the UFC Vault.
Today, Zuffa makes a big jump back into DVD and Blu-ray by releasing the UFC: Ultimate Matt Hughes collection. Covering the career of Matt Hughes, the video shows 12 fights of the "Greatest Welterweight of All-Time". To complete the video, the UFC has included interviews with Frank Trigg, BJ Penn, and Georges St. Pierre who all speak about their clashes with the Miletich Fighting Systems product. The DVD also includes backstage video and never before seen footage from Hughes' fights. For those of you who missed his UFC Hall of Fame induction, don't sweat it. That is also included in this dvd set.
I've never been a major fan of Matt Hughes but I intend to pick this up. The inclusion of the interviews makes this an interesting piece to add to any MMA dvd collection especially when a fighter like Frank Trigg is giving his thoughts on Matt Hughes. It is no secret that the two were never close and for the UFC to have Trigg as a commenter must mean something interesting was said on camera.
The DVD is out today and you can pick it up at any store that carries DVDs. The pricing is $24.98 for the DVD and $34.99 for the Blu-ray format.
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How come Matt doesn't have a monicker?
Ultimate Natural
Ultimate Badboy
Ultimate Iceman
Ultimate $kala?
Ultimate Country Breakfast
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Would you happen to know what 12 matches are included on the disc? That is usually what sells me.
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by mountaineers101 on Sep 20, 2011 6:27 PM EDT reply actions
His wins over Trigg, BJ, Royce, and GSP were included in the one sheet
dunno about the rest of them.
by Matthew Roth on Sep 20, 2011 6:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Outrageously good?
$25 is a steal for a sporting career retrospective.
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Yeah
These things are ridiculously overpriced.
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But not this one?
$25 for what’s probably a two disc DVD set of a specialist interest is really good imo. It’s about the same for Ultimate Royce Gracie which came out not too long ago.
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And I'm saying
In my opinion at least (which clearly ignores the market research that plenty of qualified people have probably done) both of those prices sound like way too much money. It’s crazy how much sports memorbilia is worth, and that people are willing to throw down 35 bucks for eight fights on blue ray.
If I had this, I’d use it pretty much just for research, and that’s not worth 25 bones. And every time I see that price tag my mind always just goes, “dayum.” You could get a decent SF ticket for 35 bucks you know.
That’s just me though.
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It's half a PPV price
But with loads of behind the scenes interviews and stuff. Plus it’s 12 fights.
Value’s always subjective. For a guy like Matt Hughes who definitely warrants such a DVD, plus the fights he’s been in it’s definitely worth it especially if you don’t have all the PPVs he’s been in in your collection to start with.
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25 bucks for a career DVD sounds like a really fair price to me
Not that I’d ever pay that in a store for it.
by Urijah Bieber on Sep 20, 2011 6:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Guess I'm just more broke than you dudes
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As I said
Value is subjective. But this isn’t extortionate. It’s not like the original Octagon book which would never appeal to the masses with its High res giant Art Book approach. That was a UFC book for Art Collectors, and I don’t imagine many Art Collectors being into the UFC enough to get it.
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And this is half the prices of that
Giving you a lot more than just the fights.
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I will admit to owning a sizeable MMA DVD collection
Off the top of my head it includes:
UFC 37
UFC 38
UFC 49
UFC 74
UFC 85
UFC 90
UFC 92
UFC 94
UFC 97
UFC 100
UFC 111
UFC 121
UFC 128
UFC 129
Pride Shockwave 2006
Pride Shockwave 2004
Various Pride GP boxsets
Pride 23
Pride 31
Pride 33
It’s the result of many a family member buying me HMV giftcards and my friend letting me spend five minutes in the back of a woolworths when it was closing down.
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I have a similar collection
plus like Jens Pulver Driven and stuff like that. Picked up the Smashing Machine at a Blockbuster when it closed.
by Matthew Roth on Sep 20, 2011 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions
What did you think of Driven MR?
I also bought Driven, but I ended up turning it off halfway through. I just couldn’t bear the poor me slant EVERY minute. It is a sad and fascinating story, but it just got too much for me after a while and felt like I had seen it before.
I'm torn on it
I thought it was extremely well done. But a lot of his issues were self induced. Not having Zuffa’s blessing to use the goodbye speech at the WEC kind hurt it as well in my opinion.
by Matthew Roth on Sep 20, 2011 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes...I reviewed it on HKL
I loved it. Honestly it’s the best MMA movie ever made.
by Matthew Roth on Sep 20, 2011 7:40 PM EDT up reply actions
I've still not
had chance to see it, think I’m gonna have to get it off the net soon
by Patrick Hughes on Sep 20, 2011 8:39 PM EDT up reply actions
If you can find it on the net I'd be stoked if you forward the link.
by Matthew Roth on Sep 20, 2011 9:27 PM EDT up reply actions
I couldn't find it
although I did find a fascinating film called Once I was a Cannibal, if that’s of any interest to you?
by Patrick Hughes on Sep 21, 2011 7:04 AM EDT up reply actions
I picked up most of my Pride dvd’s when woolworths closed it was insane. I went into the back with a friend of mine, grabbed an unopened box of Pride DVD’s and a PS3 and went for a beer. Nobody really cared as the adminstrators wanted the stock gone and the staff were pissed off and didn’t give a shit anyway.
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by MattParker117 on Sep 20, 2011 6:55 PM EDT up reply actions
I'll wait til I find a torrent
And not download it
by vicesquad26 on Sep 20, 2011 6:51 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I wish they'd do these career retrospectives
after people retired for a bit.
1. Anderson Silva is waiting for you to punch him.
2. That guy is Anderson Silva.
3. Don't fucking punch that guy.
I think Matt Hueghes' book is probably written at this point.
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It's not like Hughes is super active
He’s in the twilight of his career essentially taking testimonial fights now.
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Booking fights against Sanchez, Koscheck and Penn are far from testimonial fights
That is a rough stretch for any WW.
by Urijah Bieber on Sep 20, 2011 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions
He's going to lose the two of those fights he actually partakes in though.
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He was originally meant to fight Sanchez but Koscheck stepped in, right?
I could see a possible win over Sanchez honestly. Unfortunately I think Koscheck is going to wreck him, badly. Is it welterweight or catchweight because of the last minute replacement?
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Yeah, Kos stepped in for Diego
Welterweight as far as I know.
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They should do a Dana career retrospective
It would sound alot like White Men Can’t Jump
Seconded
Imagine if they released a Tito dvd before the Bader victory. Not that I’m a fan of the series, but to me this is like the box set they released of Harry Potter 1-7.5. Who the hell is going to buy that?
by Jeffigatame on Sep 20, 2011 10:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Also, in the title line it says “UFC 135:” before ultimate hughes hits stores, what does UFC 135 have to do with it?
It's just a world, it's just a life.
Google and Hughes is fighting this weekend.
by Matthew Roth on Sep 20, 2011 7:00 PM EDT up reply actions
I can't consider Hughes the greatest WW of all time with GSP's success
He also lost both of his trilogies with other HoF’rs.
Agreed
But at the time he had the tools to beat most in what was still a pretty un-evolved sport. Also the fan demographic (i don’t want to say white rednecks) made sure he was a favourite, obviously helping to build the UFC and the sport. As much as it pains me to say it, he did a lot to help the sport and the UFC more specifically.
He won’t be considered as good as GSP over time but the chicken had to come before the egg.
Yeah
He’s not at good as Bj or GSP. Still better than Fitch though.
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Hughes defended his belt 7 times
Fitch’s best win is Thiago Alves.
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by Neil Manich on Sep 20, 2011 7:43 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
Fitch isn't even in this discussion.
GSP. BJ Penn. Matt Hughes. Jon Fitch.
China. Russia. The USA. Guatemala.
Final Fantasy 7, Metal Gear Solid. Resident Evil 2. Crash Bandicoot.
Pride. Strikeforce. The UFC. EliteXC
Randy Moss. Jerry Rice. Terrell Owens. Chad Ochocinco.
Joe Montana. Steve Young. Tom Brady. Eli Manning.
All the way. Blow Jobs. Hand Jobs. Sexting.
Don’t get me wrong, option four is aight or fun or whatever but there is just another level.
by Urijah Bieber on Sep 20, 2011 7:30 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
yo so do I but is it a Metal Gear Solid? No sir.
PS1 was epic.
by Urijah Bieber on Sep 20, 2011 7:41 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm not even a gamer
And I think I’ve beaten Metal Gear Solid seventy times. Really disappointed at how batshit insane 4 was.
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I stopped paying attention around the time whalesong turned anyone important into gibbering wrecks
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by MattParker117 on Sep 20, 2011 7:51 PM EDT up reply actions
SAKURABA!
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by KJ Gould on Sep 20, 2011 7:50 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
He's clearly referring to
Josh Burkman.
by The Armchair Juggernaut on Sep 20, 2011 9:48 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Pride in Blu-ray
UFC should release all the Pride events in Blu-ray containing:
1. Two audio options (the original Japanese commentaries subtitled, along with the English ones).
2. All the entrances, Japanese TV promos and mini documentaries (like the one in which Sakuraba travelled to Curitiba to train with Chute Boxe; was only shown in Japan).
3. Lots of extras, interviews, behind the scenes etc.
The problem is that Zuffa doesn't see a benefit in the DVD medium
The Vault does major numbers for them and doesn’t have any cost such as pressing and advertising. By contrast from the Music industry where cds are sent out for review, this dvd wasn’t sent for review.
by Matthew Roth on Sep 20, 2011 8:20 PM EDT up reply actions
That's what I don't get
Who uses the vault?
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I don't
I like to have thing available offline.
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How do you know it does major numbers?
I’m sure it is pretty unpopular.
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