The pool scene was a little gay, but I will always like Hughes. And I think he has Farm boy training with him.

He got Billy Miles and the farmboy in Hit squad with him..I like that rearnaked excercise on the punching bag..I might try that too. I hope we havethe best Hughes vs the best GsP..for their 3rd fight.

Good lord, if this is an example of the type of training he is doing he is going to get murdered by GSP. I train harder than that for just Jiu Jitsu. I’ve seen training footage of GSP and his workouts are intense. Was that Tommy Speer from TUF that I saw training with Hughes?

[quote comment="225761"]Good lord, if this is an example of the type of training he is doing he is going to get murdered by GSP. I train harder than that for just Jiu Jitsu. I’ve seen training footage of GSP and his workouts are intense. Was that Tommy Speer from TUF that I saw training with Hughes?[/quote]
Kind of agree, the training made me think Hughes is getting old or something, gsp seems to train like an animal and seems very explosive. I hope this isn’t the most intensive training he does because if it is it’ll be a short night for him.

They had “Relax” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood playing in the bungee-lunge exercise scene.
Hey, who gives a *&$%!* what Frankie says. (Does anyone remember that counter slogan?)

hughes is naturally gifted…im sure he trains a lot harder than that a couple weeks from fight time…but they say he only trained 2 weeks prior to his fight with Sherk…now that he’s older and fighting gsp im sure his workout are more intense, becuase that seems like they just went to some other gym/fitness center, like it was their “day off”

Ok, Hughes hanging and doing sit ups from the heavy bag was cool.

Psss this guys gonna get his ass kicked soo bad i cant wait!

I don’t think Hughes trains with anybody who is better than him in anything. He has an “alpha male” type personality where he wants to dominate everybody he trains with. GSP, on the other hand, regularly trains with boxers, strikers, BJJ guys, and wrestlers who are at least as good as him in those disciplines.

[quote comment="225761"]Good lord, if this is an example of the type of training he is doing he is going to get murdered by GSP. I train harder than that for just Jiu Jitsu. I’ve seen training footage of GSP and his workouts are intense. Was that Tommy Speer from TUF that I saw training with Hughes?[/quote]

This comment breaks the camels back. Unbelievable.

[quote comment="225787"]I don’t think Hughes trains with anybody who is better than him in anything. He has an “alpha male” type personality where he wants to dominate everybody he trains with. GSP, on the other hand, regularly trains with boxers, strikers, BJJ guys, and wrestlers who are at least as good as him in those disciplines.[/quote]

good point..maybe at militich he had better sparring partners..but in this video..it looked more like a grappling social club.

[quote comment="225787"]I don’t think Hughes trains with anybody who is better than him in anything. He has an “alpha male” type personality where he wants to dominate everybody he trains with. GSP, on the other hand, regularly trains with boxers, strikers, BJJ guys, and wrestlers who are at least as good as him in those disciplines.[/quote]

Jeez, I hate it when people act like they know this man, let alone try to psychologically analyze him. I still haven’t figured out why people think Hughes is an “alpha male type”. Sure he’s got that wrestler mentality but so what?

[quote comment="225813"][quote comment="225787"]I don’t think Hughes trains with anybody who is better than him in anything. He has an “alpha male” type personality where he wants to dominate everybody he trains with. GSP, on the other hand, regularly trains with boxers, strikers, BJJ guys, and wrestlers who are at least as good as him in those disciplines.[/quote]

good point..maybe at militich he had better sparring partners..but in this video..it looked more like a grappling social club.[/quote]

Great Points!

Does it really matter, no matter what matt hughes shows up Dec. 29, it wont make a difference if GSP is healthy. GSP is too well rounded and proficient in all aspects of mma to loose to Hughes. I got $350 on GSP!!!![quote comment="225817"][quote comment="225787"]I don’t think Hughes trains with anybody who is better than him in anything. He has an “alpha male” type personality where he wants to dominate everybody he trains with. GSP, on the other hand, regularly trains with boxers, strikers, BJJ guys, and wrestlers who are at least as good as him in those disciplines.[/quote]

Jeez, I hate it when people act like they know this man, let alone try to psychologically analyze him. I still haven’t figured out why people think Hughes is an “alpha male type”. Sure he’s got that wrestler mentality but so what?[/quote]

r u serious? The best fighter he has ever trained with was Rich Franklin (occasionally), Tim Sylvia (JOKE!), Jens Pulver (he couldnt even teach hughes how to punch).

GSP has no ego when it comes to training. He is like Forrest Griffin, a wandering Ronin with no master, kind of like andy wang lol. GSP jumps around from school to school, he trains with everybody and thats y he is so god damn good!

OMG!!! Are you serious!! Either that video was a ploy to make gsp think that he is not really training or Matt Hughes is going to get his ass handed to him.

I find it amusing that some individuals here feel they have the credentials to critique the MMA training regimine of Matt Hughes.

I can’t believe that Matt would have someone make such a video of him going to gym and have his website blasted on the whole thing. Now he must have made this hoping that GSP would watch it to think that he is not training hard and just wrestling with the boys in the pool.

It was very painful to watch.

WAR GSP!!!

If you compare GSP’s training cycle to Hughes….this looks like amateur footage…Hughes’ is going to get destroyed on the 29th…

i like gsp and hughes!!
Cant get over some of the criticism of hughes the guy is a legend end of. Hughes is a machine and looks in great shape, he regularly is on the tuf fighters for not pushing themselves hard enough, so to think that he wont be ready for gsp is ridiculous!! Is he really gony show his intense training sessions on camera? come on!! Look at floyd mayweather, he poses in to the camera while doing the speed bag! is that his work out? i hardly think so!! Gsp fans will in be in for a shock if they think this will be an easy night!

[quote comment="225817"][quote comment="225787"]I don’t think Hughes trains with anybody who is better than him in anything. He has an “alpha male” type personality where he wants to dominate everybody he trains with. GSP, on the other hand, regularly trains with boxers, strikers, BJJ guys, and wrestlers who are at least as good as him in those disciplines.[/quote]

Jeez, I hate it when people act like they know this man, let alone try to psychologically analyze him. I still haven’t figured out why people think Hughes is an “alpha male type”. Sure he’s got that wrestler mentality but so what?[/quote]
Totally agree! Truth is, everybody hates the guy they know can kick thier *ss

[quote post="4105"]Totally agree! Truth is, everybody hates the guy they know can kick thier *ss[/quote]

First of all, I don’t even hate Matt Hughes. And GSP would kick my ass worse than Matt Hughes, but I don’t hate GSP. Same with Anderson Silva, BJ, and so on.

[quote comment="225882"]I find it amusing that some individuals here feel they have the credentials to critique the MMA training regimine of Matt Hughes.[/quote]

You don’t have to make movies to be a movie critic…

Matt is an outstanding, well-conditioned athlete. He’s very strong and his wrestling and power submission game is solid. But he hasn’t expanded his game to catch up with GSP. GSP is the Genesis of the new MMA athlete. In the future, champions will be those who have cross-trained since they started, who don’t call one discipline their strength. These have been the phases of evolution in a UFC athlete:

Phase I: Expert of a discipline (ie. Royce Gracie)
Phase II: Expert of one discipline, trains in other disciplines (ie. Matt Hughes)
Phase III: Well-versed in multiple disciplines (ie. GSP)
Phase IV: Expert of multiple disciplines (???)

I doubt Hughes is going to show exactly how he has been training. He is not dumb and doesn’t want to completely blow his gameplan 3 weeks before the fight.

Surely Hughes training is tougher than that. Must have just been one of the lighter ones after a particularly gruelling one. That said that punching bag routine would be hard.

[quote comment="225936"][quote comment="225882"]I find it
amusing that some individuals here feel they have the credentials to critique the MMA training regimine of Matt Hughes.[/quote]

You don’t have to make movies to be a movie critic…

Matt is an outstanding, well-conditioned athlete. He’s very strong and his wrestling and power submission game is solid. But he hasn’t expanded his game to catch up with GSP. GSP is the Genesis of the new MMA athlete. In the future, champions will be those who have cross-trained since they started, who don’t call one discipline their strength. These have been the phases of evolution in a UFC athlete:

Phase I: Expert of a discipline (ie. Royce Gracie)
Phase II: Expert of one discipline, trains in other disciplines (ie. Matt Hughes)
Phase III: Well-versed in multiple disciplines (ie. GSP)
Phase IV: Expert of multiple disciplines (???)[/quote]

It’s not that simple. As an example, you cannot compare one athletes ground game to another when both train that particular discipline at different levels. One of your so called “well versed” fighters might train ground and pound and take downs 10 hours per week. The other fighter might train it 20 hours per week. “Well Versed” is not automaticaly a superior benefit verses a style that leans more towards one particular discipline. For example, and this is theoretical; Compared to GSP, Matt Hughes “MIGHT” have 15% more natural strength comparitavely. Depending on where the fight goes, this simple fact could very well negate GSP’s superior skills in all disciplines, as you have claimed him to have. Now, unless you train on a regular basis, I find it hard to accept your take on this issue. Movie critics comment on the outcome, not on the process itself Sir. Take note, they are hardly experts in that field.

i hope this is a decoy to make it look like he isn’t training hard. first of all, 75lbs dumbbells and he was struggling with 8 reps..that is sad..his exercise regime is like a casual highschool gym class. he definitely needs to be more disciplined if he wants to be ready for GSP’s destruction

Can someone post link of GSP’s training video for UFC 79.. Really curious to see how intense he actually trains.. thx in advance

Hughes has some chicken legs.

[quote comment="225986"]i hope this is a decoy to make it look like he isn’t training hard. first of all, 75lbs dumbbells and he was struggling with 8 reps..that is sad..his exercise regime is like a casual highschool gym class. he definitely needs to be more disciplined if he wants to be ready for GSP’s destruction[/quote]
You don’t know how many reps he did before the camera focused on him or what he did before that. Have you ever heard of super sets? You might see a fighter struggling with a 45 lb bar, you have no clue what they did before that unless you were there in person.

[quote post="4105"]They had “Relax” by Frankie Goes to Hollywood playing in the bungee-lunge exercise scene.
Hey, who gives a *&$%!* what Frankie says. (Does anyone remember that counter slogan?) [/quote]

no what was it again?

[quote post="4105"]It’s not that simple. As an example, you cannot compare one athletes ground game to another when both train that particular discipline at different levels. One of your so called “well versed” fighters might train ground and pound and take downs 10 hours per week. The other fighter might train it 20 hours per week. “Well Versed” is not automaticaly a superior benefit verses a style that leans more towards one particular discipline. For example, and this is theoretical; Compared to GSP, Matt Hughes “MIGHT” have 15% more natural strength comparitavely. Depending on where the fight goes, this simple fact could very well negate GSP’s superior skills in all disciplines, as you have claimed him to have. Now, unless you train on a regular basis, I find it hard to accept your take on this issue. Movie critics comment on the outcome, not on the process itself Sir. Take note, they are hardly experts in that field.[/quote]

Thanks for the reply, I respect your opinion. I don’t claim that GSP is better than Matt in every discipline. The strengths of Matt’s game as I had pointed out are his edges over GSP. However, GSP is so well-rounded that with most fighters he faces, he usually has one significant edge over an opponent, while giving up only slight disadvantages in other disciplines. With Matt, GSP’s big edge comes in striking. There could be better WW strikers than GSP somewhere in the world, but I’d bet that GSP’s BJJ or wrestling will be a level above their’s. I can think of only John Fitch that can compare to GSP’s versatility.

[quote comment="225817"][quote comment="225787"]I don’t think Hughes trains with anybody who is better than him in anything. He has an “alpha male” type personality where he wants to dominate everybody he trains with. GSP, on the other hand, regularly trains with boxers, strikers, BJJ guys, and wrestlers who are at least as good as him in those disciplines.[/quote]

Jeez, I hate it when people act like they know this man, let alone try to psychologically analyze him. I still haven’t figured out why people think Hughes is an “alpha male type”. Sure he’s got that wrestler mentality but so what?[/quote]

Hughes says it himself “If I can’t win I don’t like to play” I would say he has the old school wrestler mentality. GSP is new school MMA mentality. That’s why GSP will win.

GSP has no ego when it comes to training. He is like Forrest Griffin, a wandering Ronin with no master, kind of like andy wang lol. GSP jumps around from school to school, he trains with everybody and thats y he is so god damn good![/quote]

ANDY ‘CRYING WARRIOR’ WANG…lol.. how dare you mention that dumbass in this blog!

Wait a minute here i like gsp but to say he is too skilled for most guys out there is a tad premature to say the least!! He hasnt dominated the division by any manner of means and until he does these comments have to be questioned. Further it was mentioned that only john fitch is comparible to gsp’s versatility? what? there are so many well rounded guys out there, that this comment is so far left field its came around the right hand side!! what about anderson silva, bj penn, shogun, wanderlei? all fighters have weaknesses regardles of how well rounded they are gsp’s might well be matt serra!! Come on man, its the fight game there are lots of good fighters, gsp is one of many!

are poeple forgetting that Hughes already beat GSP before? Matt tried to strike with him in the last fight, kinda like Tito tried to strike with Chuck and got spanked. I like both fighters, but find GSP more likable. I will not be placing bets on this fight lol. IMO, it could go either way.

[quote comment="225984"][quote comment="225936"][quote comment="225882"]I find it
amusing that some individuals here feel they have the credentials to critique the MMA training regimine of Matt Hughes.[/quote]

You don’t have to make movies to be a movie critic…

Matt is an outstanding, well-conditioned athlete. He’s very strong and his wrestling and power submission game is solid. But he hasn’t expanded his game to catch up with GSP. GSP is the Genesis of the new MMA athlete. In the future, champions will be those who have cross-trained since they started, who don’t call one discipline their strength. These have been the phases of evolution in a UFC athlete:

Phase I: Expert of a discipline (ie. Royce Gracie)
Phase II: Expert of one discipline, trains in other disciplines (ie. Matt Hughes)
Phase III: Well-versed in multiple disciplines (ie. GSP)
Phase IV: Expert of multiple disciplines (???)[/quote]

It’s not that simple. As an example, you cannot compare one athletes ground game to another when both train that particular discipline at different levels. One of your so called “well versed” fighters might train ground and pound and take downs 10 hours per week. The other fighter might train it 20 hours per week. “Well Versed” is not automaticaly a superior benefit verses a style that leans more towards one particular discipline. For example, and this is theoretical; Compared to GSP, Matt Hughes “MIGHT” have 15% more natural strength comparitavely. Depending on where the fight goes, this simple fact could very well negate GSP’s superior skills in all disciplines, as you have claimed him to have. Now, unless you train on a regular basis, I find it hard to accept your take on this issue. Movie critics comment on the outcome, not on the process itself Sir. Take note, they are hardly experts in that field.[/quote]

Phase IV= Fedor (even though he hasn’t fought anyone good lately)

P.S. anyone else notice that Mike always disagrees with everyone?

[quote post="4105"]I can think of only John Fitch that can compare to GSP’s versatility. [/quote]

When I say this, I’m talking about fighters currently fighting at WW.

i dont think hes gonna be able to take GSP the third time, he just seems like hes alot smaller and older, not the tank ferocious hughes we used to see. i think its gonna be GSP tko rd 1

I’d love to see GSP take up weight and fight Anderson Silva. That would be a fight. He’d be a natural at around 180-185. First he probably needs to fight Fitch and Serra again, then maybe one more top contender. Then let’s have GSP and Silva assuming Silva is still the belt holder.

Does Matt Hughes train at the YMCA?????

[quote comment="226201"][quote post="4105"]I can think of only John Fitch that can compare to GSP’s versatility. [/quote]

When I say this, I’m talking about fighters currently fighting at WW.[/quote]
sorry my bad then!!

Hughes destroys GSP

I don’t know if Hughes destroys GSP, but he will beat him. In the last fight Hughes fought GSP on less than 8 weeks rest after a tough win over BJ Penn. In addition, he went into the fight thinking he was going to stand and strike with GSP, which was a bad strategy.
In this fight, Hughes will be very well rested, and he will go in looking to fight like he did in wins over GSP, Charuto, Trigg and Newton, which means that he will be looking to shoot and take the fight to the ground.
That being said, GSP was very impressive in his decision over Kos, and GSP is a great overall fighter. However, KOs looked scared in that fight, and GSP was focussed and ready. In this fight, GSP will be ready, but he will be going against a fighter who can capitalize on any mistakes. I think this fight may go the distance, but I can also see Hughes winning by rear naked choke. One thing is for sure, it will not end like the last fight with Hughes standing and smiling while GSP picks him apart.

Hey you never know…after GSP kicks Hughes butt..He will invite Georges over to H.I.T. for a water polo session. That was the silliest video.

Couldn’t agree more.

I like Matt Hughes the fighter… but Hughes the man?…. nah’

[quote post="4105"]Wait a minute here i like gsp but to say he is too skilled for most guys out there is a tad premature to say the least!! He hasnt dominated the division by any manner of means and until he does these comments have to be questioned. Further it was mentioned that only john fitch is comparible to gsp’s versatility? what? there are so many well rounded guys out there, that this comment is so far left field its came around the right hand side!! what about anderson silva, bj penn, shogun, wanderlei? all fighters have weaknesses regardles of how well rounded they are gsp’s might well be matt serra!! Come on man, its the fight game there are lots of good fighters, gsp is one of many! [/quote]
Where have you been these last few years? I’d say beating Hughes, BJ, Sherk, Trigg, Miller, Parisian and Kos is somewhat DOMINATING, don’t you think? Who else is there for him to beat besides Fitch after he destroys Sera? And he will destroy Sera this time (he only loses to guys named Matt the first fight)LOL

there r a lot more things than skill that go into a fight and gsp is one of many that have showed that. he has been known to not show up mentally. he said he was scared of hughes in the first fight and obviusly didnt bring his A game against serra. will the weird timing of the fight be the reason this time. i think when he’s confident he’s one of the best around cuz im a huge kos fan and gotta give gsp some credit after that ass whooping.

In my opinion GSP IS IF NOT THE BEST is one of them. He is the only fighter who I think can move up in weight and challenge Anderson and give him a good fight,but that doesnt mean he is going to do the same thing to Matt Hughes this time. THIS GUY IS GOING TO COME WITH EVERYTHING HE HAS to destroy GSP. People forgot easily what happened to GSP when he fought Serra. Dont tell me now that someone else other than Serra thought he was going to win.Wait until you see the fight and remember this time he will not let GSP TO PLAY AROUND WITH HIM.I am sure he has watched the fight so many times and has seen that overwhelming victory as a disrespect.

Hey matt is going to tear it up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GSP the beating you recieved from serra was nothing,hughes is a man on a mission. Matt , do what you do best ….. slam the tail to the ground……………………..

GSP is the future of mma. saying that he better bring his A game on 29th because Matt is no joke!

come on GSP!!!!