UFC 65 Title match spoiler

Well said. And GSP's next fight is against Matt Serra on Superbowl Sunday. So I wonder if Hughes is retiring now.

Matt hughes is still very good in stand up just not world class. Wrestling, ground and pound and submission is what he does best but he is still a decent striker. Better than most of us probably. Or me anyway.

Did Alessio Sakara win?

UFC65 Results: http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=eventdetail.fightCard&eid=297

Alessio Sakara lost. It was a good banger fight with them both throwing everything they had including the kitchen sink. Very weird ending with what looks like a delayed reaction to a previous hit where Sakara just stops and drops to his butt in a defensive position to only take repeated punches from Drew McFedries who capitalized on the situation. Of the 9 fights on the card, this is the only one I picked wrong on.

I'm surprised. Alesio Sakara is supposed to be an almost unstoppable striker with fantastic boxing skills. Has he won at all?

He's 14-4-0

Everybody can lose and this was his time. Drew McFedries was a last minute replacement and won so good for him.

GSP vs. Matt Hughes. This one has sound but watch quickly before pulled.

http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/sea...pierre?from=rss

Thanks Cord. I think a psot of that nature has to be stickied.

I also said the original post was wrong because people say stuff like that because they're weak, so they like to attribute stuff they lack to the loser and stuff they think they have to the winner.

While I'm no fan of Matt Hughes, I do enjoy many of his fights and for a person who's accomplished quite a bit. I look forward to GSP and Matt meeting up again. I have to say though, Matt almost looked defeated before he entered the cage ... and as well the same demeanor when he fought BJ Penn. Maybe something is going on mentally with him and why his performance was not up to par with other of his matches. Maybe this is why there are rumors running amock about his early retirement. Perhaps he said something to somebody and it wasn't suppose to be said and now he is back tracing or perhaps doing crowd control? We won't know for sure but I hope he sticks around to fight GSP again.

Anybody know what song was Matt's entrance song?

I am a big Matt fan I will agree that his last few fights he did not look the best.

It could be due to the fact that the people who face him know they have to be better so they train harder. Every sport has had a “great one” that ruled the sport until the rest of the pack caught up with them. Also having the belt is a big boost to your confidence and you might let your training slack off. I hope this was not the case.


I still think that Matt is one of the best fighters to get in the ring. And I hope with this loss he goes back and trains harder then ever and learns something from the loss.


GSP I was not a big fan of I had seen little from him and I felt he was over hyped. I was wrong he is all game and came to play to win.

I enjoyed Matt Serra on the Ultimate Fighter Come Back show. However Serra does not have near the ability that GSP has and will be an easy win for GSP, or that is how I see it.

Serra's weakness is the standup, and GSP is going to pound him. If Serra couldnt take down Chris Lytle in the TUF finals there is no way he could take down GSP. I was pulling for Chris Lytle to win TUF but honestly I dont think he would fare any better. He isn't aggressive enough to beat GSP. It was Lytle being conservative that lost him the TUF finals, and GSP would pounce on that.

Just saw the Hughes/GSP fight. I thought it was a good match, with a lot of good action. Matt was much less aggressive than I have seen him before, and let GSP control the fight. Props to GSP for his excellent takedown defense, and good striking timing.

Matt Serra will get creamed by GSP,no doubt. I couldn't stand that guy on the show and I laughed when Shoney Carter landed the spinning forearm on him again.

"DRAGO!! DRAGO!!! GET OFF THE FENCE DRAGO!!! DRAGO!!!"

That got on my nerves.

Monson... strangest choice for entrance music ever.

Wasn't it Elton John or something? Very weird but didn't get on my nerves like Dokonjonosuke Mishima's music.

It was "Imagine" by John Lennon. Not exactly music to get you amped up.

Right, that was it. Knew it was something off the wall. Thankfully it wasn't Celine Dion or something like that. I can just see the fog rising and the song from the Titanic starting to play.

My friend and I were watching and we were like "this guy has an anarchy tattoo and what looks like a guy doing the hitler hile one the back of his neck and he walks out to imagine" what's with that? most of the music was weird except Matt Hughes I expected "Contry boy can survive" by Hank Williams Jr. Cause that suited him perfect for his BJ Penn fight.

Jeff's appearnace fools alot of people. having met him on several occasions at ATT in Coconut Creek Fl(very near my home), I can tell you that he is a very mild mannered soft spoken man. He is also quite the activist. His views and politics are very left wing.

He is very outspoken, and demonstrates against, the war in Iraq. He also has a very socialist view on political and social issues.

He is a pacifist in the way that Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali) was. "No I don't beleive in war, But I'll pound the living hell out of you in a ring".

Nice guy. Good fighter.

Question: instead of just training his boxing really hard, would some muy thai complete with LEG KICKS have changed the scope of that fight??

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Leg kicks can work very well. Remember Marco Ruas vs Paul Vaarlens (sp)? My friends and I watched that, laughing to each other how the big guy (Vaarlens) was going to stomp the "little" guy (Ruas).



Ruas proceeded to leg kick Vaarlens until Vaarlens couldn't move anymore. Textbook use of leg kicks.

Hey Page, being a TKD'st I certainly advocate more leg kicking but in Monson's case, in order for him to leg kick Sylvia he would need to get in close and that would be right into Sylvia's punching range. I think if Sylvia worked more on leg kicks he would have done even more damage to Monson though I can understand his apprehension of not wanting to kick in fear that Monson would latch on like a Mongoose and take him down, though after watching this I was fairly impressed with Sylvia's defense on the ground. Sylvia's height was his total advantage from stand up to takedown as the length of his body even on this back made for Monson to have a hard time reaching his face, though he was able on a few occasions, not to mention a few overhand rights in the stand up.

I think every aspect needs to be worked on and a lot more would benefit from more leg kicks, as GSP proved with Matt Hughes. Don't for once think that those leg kicks don't take take something out of you little by little. And when you constantly have to also think about the legs on top of the stiff jab in your face, you make the error of going in for a leg and taking it to the side of the head and the next thing you know you are on your back and handing over the title.

Monson ... don't think he was ready but he did a good job in my book for lasting 5 rounds and I enjoy him as a fighter. Anybody who fights Sylvia has to know it will be less then entertaining to go up against him.

Just saw GSP-Hughes. Amazing!!! The stand-up stuff was awesome, and although I don't consider MH a great stand-up fighter, he was made to look much worse than he really is. GSP is just so explosive! The takedown defense in the first round was great, and really took the momentum firmly away from Hughes. I feel a bit sorry for Hughes actually- after GSP escaped the takedown he must have been thinking "jeez, this guy knows all the tricks." It was also a very clever fight strategy from GSP, by using plenty of leg kicks he set the high kick up beautifully, leading to a great KO.

One question I have though: GSP is BIG for his weight, and as he gets older it'll get harder and harder to keep within 170. So where will he go- will he tone down the muscle, do some crazy water weight loss, or step up a weight division?

I don't see GSP big for his weight. When I went to his seminar in the early summer he wasn't cut like this so you know he worked hard for this fight. He only stands about an inch taller then me at 5'9.5", but I out weight him 35 lbs from his fighting weight and I am not fat in the least. I think he can easily keep the weight and cut what little he has to so as to stay in the Welter Weight Division.

Yup, my cousin saw him at a club, and she told me that he was about my size, and that I am a bit bigger than him. hehehe