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Quoteworthy:
“I caught up with nine-time UFC World Champion Matt Hughes at the Knight Rifles booth early Saturday morning and asked him about his hunting and shooting background. He and his identical twin brother, Mark, grew up hunting and shooting on their rural farm in Illinois. They continue to hunt, but prefer the time they get to spend together on the target range because it allows more trigger time together. According to Hughes, when hunting, you may get only one shot — if that — and then it’s over, but with targets you shoot until you either run out of ammo, time, or daylight — whichever comes first. It was obvious to me from the vigor in his eyes that target shooting with Mark is the height of Matt’s shooting enjoyment.”
Former UFC welterweight champion Matt Hughes and his twin brother visit the NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits in Louisville, KY, last week along with other celebrities. The avid hunter is in the midst of training for his main event fight against Thiago Alves at UFC 85: “Bedlam” at the O2 Arena in London, England, on June 7.
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I always wondered Why Mark Hughes never went further with mma, does anybody know?
He came in at a time when the money was really poor, he was good, but decided it wasn’t for him.
I guess it’s not for everyone. I bet whenever he sees his brother driving around in his new John Deer he regrets it
LOL
Cant wait to watch Tiago Alves destroy Hughes’s legs with viscous leg kicks.
Onto better news:
kid Yammamoto signed to DREAM and is looking for a fight at either DREAM 4 or 5…..
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That sucks. I want to see Kid fight Faber! Aint happening anytime soon now
yamamoto by breakdance knockout
Domo arigato Mr. Yamamoto.
LOL….”Domo arigato Mr. Yamamoto”….Classic!
Does anyone else notice how Matt looks like he could have been on the juice compared to his brother. He looks like the stuff aged him a little. He has the caveman face like most of the roid heads.
Maybe his face looks like that because of the beatings he took from GSP and BJ.
who would have thought . . . Matt enjoys insulting foreigners, reading his bible, and killing animals in his free time . . . What a walking contradiction! Doesnt it say in that good book not to judge, and where is it in there that Jesus and Magdelana round up there friends and riffles to go kill some of gods creatures cause he isnt killing animals out of necessity like early man, he just kills cause hes bored on his farm. Maybe he should reread that bible, or from what it sounds like read it for the first time.
Buddy, I agree with most of your comments, but it Deer hunting, it’s not like he’s shooting bald eagles. In the midwest there is an overpopulation problem with deer and if there wasn’t deer hunting many of them would die a slow death due to starvation in the winter. I’ve never hunted before, but having lived most my life in Wisconsin, deer hunting is definatly a necessity.
Good post.
i’m from the Upper Penninsula of Michigan so i know exactly what you are talking about.
good post. sometimes the ignorance i see on this site makes my head hurt.
Even in Virginia we have WAY too many of the damned things. They’re pests and nuisances, like rats with antlers.
Wow, nice post there Judgie McJudgerton. Where has he ever insulted a foreigner just for being foreign? Killing animals is a necessity because we aren’t all on the Danzig Diet. Where exactly do you think your Thanksgiving turkey comes from anyway? If I need to post a treatise in support of the legal hunting of animals I will be happy to do so.
“Judgie McJudgerton” That was good, made me laugh. Go job putting mister holier-than-thou in his place.
LoL, how about in the “WAR OF 04″ when he said “Ahhh, Canadian welter weight champion, come on, that doesnt mean much to me.” AND THEN “Canada, come on, who wants to lose to a canadian in a street fight, come on.” Is that not insulting a foreigner based on them being foreign . . . He could have attacked GSP’s MMA skills, instead he chose to talk about where the guy is from and because of where hes from that he shouldnt be able to beat Matt, right??? Mr. NoReaserchMcsearcherton . . . Not to mention all the times he would just laugh at GSP on the TUF show when GSP would speak like “whats this dude saying, me no understand, learn English dude, then come talk to the UFC welter weight champion, us dumb jocks only speak English and that Canadian crap aint English” Tell me im wrong! The hunting is up to you, i dont have any problem with hunting whatsoever! But when you preach the bible 24-7 and then go out to your backyard and shoot a deer thats in the middle of eating some grass, thats a hypocrite and a walking contradiction, isnt it. Practice what you preach or stop preaching and go shoot something, dont avct holly and then act like the complete opposite. AM I WRONG . . .
AND im a BJ Penn fan so that should tell you where i stand on GSP. But facts are facts, Matt is so far beyond rude and a hypocrite that its a joke!
dude, i don’t have a problem with what you said about the attacking foreigners thing, but being a Christian and killing animals is in no way a contradiction. i’m not trying to invite a scripture quoting session or anything like that, but you might as well admit that you’re wrong about that part, because you are dead wrong.
I’m not even Christian, but even I know that.
It doesnt say somewhere in there to not hurt gods creatures . . . Roughly translated . . .
Adam, I agree that attacking a fighter because of where he is from is not right. The only problem is that you yourself are being hypocritical. You are a BJ Penn fan and this guy has taken every chance possible to discredit Sean Sherk. I can understand not liking him because of the steroid issue but to go as far as saying he is going to “kill him” because of it. Come on seriously that is not right.
Don’t tell me it is just hype. If you believe that then you could say the same thing about Matt Hughes and his comments about GSP.
As for Matt Hughes and his decision to hunt please do not make comments on things you have no clue about.
NO IT DOESN’T
yea, cause BJ refferences Minnesota and if your from there you do roids. Sean broke the rules and then lied about it. If sean had broke the rules and then took it like a man im sure BJ would have respected him a loy more and said “the guy made some mistakes, as long as he doesnt do it again then whats the problem?” But since sean STILL lies about it to this day BJ is very upset about it, for what reason i have no idea, its become his crusade or some shit??? And since it isnt a crusade for something wrong im behind him 110%! If it was a crusade to bash people from Minnesota cause that where sean is from and they must all be liars like him then id say BJ is retarded, but it isnt so he isnt.
I would agree if what you are saying was true. There was a post on this site about a week ago that quoted BJ saying that anyone who does steroids he is going to beat the shit out of. The quote actually said the following:
“… I know there are a lot of people out there doing steroids, cheating and every time I run into one of them, I’m going to call them on it and then I’m going to beat the shit out of them.… It’s going to be a historic night because all the kids out there will realize that you can do it with just hard work alone … he wants to say he has heart and all this different shit, but you can’t confuse steroids with heart…. It’s two different things, a guy with heart is a guy doing it with blood, sweat and tears, waking up with the sore back, the sore body..… What would happen in the old days when you get caught with a couple of aces up your sleeve, they kill the guy right there and that’s why I say Sean Sherk is dead….”
This sounds to me like even if Sherk would have admitted guilt BJ would still feel the same way about him. BJ already has his opinion of weather or not Sherk did steroids.
I would have to agree however as much as I dislike Penn I feel what he is trying to do is a great thing. I just do not agree with “how” he is going about doing it.
Hes not pissed at Hermes Franca (who addmited it), he actually had Hermes help him train for Joe stevenson. . . He says the “anybody else he thinks is on roids” thing cause they also havent been caught like he assumes sherk wasnt for a long time in his career. Its a random subject when you get into other guys “you think” do roids but have no proof, like we dont even know who hes suggesting ya know, so i cant speak on them. But when it comes to sean, the verdict is in, and the lies still keep coming. I think BJ is too worked up over this and i dont know why hes so hell bent on it, fighting the former UFC LTWT champ should be motivation enough huh, but BJ is FUCKING CRAZY!!!! (And i love it!)
You are right BJ is crazy and truthfully if it helps him get motivated then I guess more power to him. These guys put their bodies on the line everytime they step into the Octagon and if it helps him get mentally prepared then I cannot say anything against it.
It sort of depends. I personally think that intent has a lot to do with things. I know my grandfather used to speak wistfully about hunting with his father in Minnesota. He’d talk about how they’d use all the meat, how his father taught him to be respectful of the life they were taking, they always said a prayer of thanks when hunting, and never needlessly killed anything. They also never hunted out of boredom. They weren’t starving and had enough money, but hunting was another way of getting by.
When I was a kid I had the blood lust. I went hunting because I loved the thrill and violence of it. After I first killed something, I felt like shit. It definitely wasn’t getting me any closer to God, so I didn’t bother hunting anymore. I’ve had college roomates that would tell me about hunting and the joy of bloodlust. I personally feel like that’s against the Bible, but that’s just me.
And yeah, Matt Hughes isn’t perfect. He talks about people not being classy after he just treated them like poop (hypocritical). But who amongst us doesn’t do that? I believe he really believes in God and the Bible and tries to do the right thing, but he’s not perfect. No one is. BTW, I’m defo not a Matt Hughes fan.
Adam, yes there is a contradiction in what Matt says and does, but it’s not hunting, not sure if he has ever insulted foreigners, but he does say things he shouldn’t say. Why you would put Jesus and Mary Magdalene in the same sentence like that I have no idea, because they were not married. Killing animals does not go against the bible, if you eat what you kill it’s actually right. I try not to push Jesus or the bible on anyone on this forum, so please don’t disrespect either of those, seeing that I’m very thankful to be saved by grace and take offense to someone disrespecting my Lord.
Then i stand corrected on that issue, i can admitt when im wrong, thought he once again contradicted himself and with his record of doing so it seemed like it fit the Matt Hughes puzzle pretty well. Sorry guys. I guess my love for animals got in the way a bit to, bias gets you in trouble huh . . .
sorry ahead of time but: what would Jesus hunt? sorry, sorry, sorry… lol just a joke. no disrespect. sorry.
hehehe!
He would hunt varmints.
From what I can see, you are the one doing the judging.
can you see that i made my appologies, cry me a river ya F’n baby! Whayyyyyy! Whhhhayyyyyyaayyayay!
Adam G I could agree with everything else you’re saying but as far as killing animals and being a Christian, you don’t know what you’re talking about. They gave sacrificial offerings to cover their sins for a year in the old testament. That involves killing a sheep or a cow and burning it on an alter. Thats’s a little more extreme than shoothing a deer with a bow or a gun and putting the meat in a deep freeze. So please don’t assume anymore because we all see where that got you.
if god didn’t want us to eat animals, he wouldn’t have made them out of meat
huh he’s a supporter of the NRA. that raises him up a few notches in my book.
I find this “nine-time UFC World Champion” count by the UFC ridiculous. Ortiz is six-time champion and Liddell five-time champion and so on. Its not like they won the belts on nine/six/five seperate occasions but defended it.
In boxing they call for example Holyfield a four- or five-time champion because he won the belt on seperate occasions, otherwise by UFC-count they’d have to call him something like twentyone-time champion..
Yeah its dumb. I just posted or at least tried to post a comment about this but it hasn’t shown up? Anyway Matt Hughes is a 2 time champ to me.
2 time champ, 9 time “defending” there is a difference, but i get what your saying. He’ll never have that belt again so who cares right.
Yeah well nobody else will either, Matt is a legend who only gets beat by other legends… Nuff said
I CANT RESIST! BJ Penn will have it by the end of 09, gauranteed!
Shut up with your BJ nutt loving already. BJ is elite at 155 thats it. Anything above that he becomes just another good fighter.
laughable . . . BJ nut loving blah blah blah, BJ this nuthug that blah blah blah . . . We’ll see what you’re saying when BJ is coming for all your favorite fighters belts.
I don’t see B.J. taking the belt from GSP. GSP seems to improve on a much faster pace than most, and I think he is already a much better fighter then when he beat B.J.
I think we can agree that they are eachothers best comp . . . NO??
I agree BJ and GSP are each other’s best comp. Silva is on another level compared to these guys and would beat them both, even though BJ is a tougher fight style-wise. If GSP was a natural LW, BJ would be beating on him for more than one round. I think that with GSP so big and strong and well-conditioned that his skills are just good enough to beat BJ 6 out of 10 times.
How is he a 9 time champion. He’s been 2 times as champion. 5 defenses with his first reign. 2 defenses with his second reign. Thats 7 Title Defenses. How do you get the 9? Include his 2 victories for the title? Meh thats dumb. Matt Hughes is dumb. He’s a 2 time champion, with 7 title defenses in my eyes. Calling him a 9 time champion makes it look like he won the belt 9 times. Which he hasn’t.
/RANT
I always thought the X times chapmion thing was kind of stupid anyway. What is more impressive winning it once and defending it ten times or winning it 10 times and losing it back every time? The latter would make you ten time champion but is far less impressive.
I agree completely.
Actually if look at it when you fight the belt is up for grabs, and you technically win the belt if you win the fight.
This isn’t wrestling, when they say 9 times that means he has fought for it 9 times and won it 9 times. Of course he fought for it 12 times and won it 9 times but seriously does it bother you that much? Is it that confusing?
you all can be hughes haters but thus stand up came up and did his when dana white needed him ….thats class..and yes in his prime he was the most dominate welter weight ever…period
sorry for the grammar he is a stand up guy for filling in 2 times now on short notice
i hope the old hughes shows up and teachs this boy how it is………good luck matt
There is no old Hughes, there is just Hughes. He’ll come in and win this period. GSP and Penn are no where in sight and niether is Dennis Hallman, so now that we have nobody to beat Hughes what happens? Hughes dominates the next title contender to follow Fitch. Single handedly GSP could beat every WW on his own. But Hughes can do the same excluding GSP himself.
Same thing can be said about the LTWT division, no one can beat Penn, but no one else is beating sean either . . . Besides Penn. Wow, middleweight, no one is beating Silva, but then no one is beating Hendo besides Silva . . . OMG! heavyweight, no one is beating Fedor, but no one is beating Randy except Fedor (maybe, would be an awesome war!) What im trying to say id Matt aint special cause hes in that position, its like that in every weight class dude.
I don’t know about the Middleweights. I think Franklin and Hendo are pretty even.
I agree. I am not dead set on the view that Hendo can beat Franklin.
i dunno josh koscheck might prove a handfull for hughes if they fight! huges has better top game but koscheck isvery hard to get on his back and has better boxing tham hughes! itd be a good fight!
when is hughes gonna whup serra?
AND Kos went longer than Hughes did with GSP in all three of the Hughes/GSP fights combined!!
BJ Penn went longer with GSP when he was out of shape then Hughes did in all of the Hughes/GSP fights combined . . . Hughes isnt half as untouchable as you think dude. And there is a good reason he would never fight Hallman agian. . . That RNC is wicked and Hughes has seen it 2 out of 2 fights, if Matt was the super legend you make him out to be he woyld have faught Hallman before Gracie to clear those 2 loses up before taking on another guy he had no history with, but still after beating Royce he fights BJ (makes sense) and beats him but still next does not fight Hallman he fights gsp again in hopes of adding another meaningless W to his record and that didnt workout so well huh??
ooops, no RNC, a guiltine and an arm bar . . . Both fights lasting a total of 37 seconds combined . . .
Sometimes your opinions are really good but in this case I think your talking out of your ass. Hendo is not proven to be the second in line at MW, it would be Franklin. Hendo very well could be but his status hasn’t been tested in the UFC yet. Next is that lol Randy is so over rated that for you to even mention him as unbeatable is a laugh. Who at heavyweight has he beaten to make him an undisputed champ? Just cause he’s calling out Fedor doesn’t make him the best but he does get credit for calling him out. Which goes to my next point. Hallman is not in the UFC which means for Hughes to get a rematch is pretty much not going to happen. Also Hughes requested the GSP fight trying to get the hardest fight in possible, he lost but he showed up and tried. If he beat GSP how is that another meaningless win? Also the Hallman fight was 8 years prior which doesn’t make much sense as to why he would want to call out a guy who beat him before he became WW champ. Also in his first two years alone Hughes fought 25 fights, thats about 20 more than any fighter these days. Man show some class and give the guy respect. Just because you like to hug on the nuts of the guys who have belts doesn’t mean you have to cut on the guys they had to beat to get there.
LoL, i like BJ Penn, so i just started to like ‘em after Jan 19th huh, i think every poster thats been on here longer than 3 months can testify to the opposite. AND cause i said what i said about the other fights in other wiehgt classes doesnt mean i like them, it mean what i said it means, that Matt isnt special for being the position he is in, its like tat in every weight class. I also like Hallman as you can see, when has he ever held a belt anywhere??? And Hallman was in the UFC at UFC 55, right around the time Hughes beat GSP for the first time, Hughes had the star power to request Hallman, Dana would have done it with ease! It didnt happen cause Dana didnt want then to fight again cause Hallamn would win and Dana would be stuck with this lisping wierdo as his welter wieght champion right when the sport was taking off. . . Nothing Hughes could do about it really so its no knock on him but Hallman was there and Matt probably could have convinced Dana to make it hapen if he really wanted to.
he’ll need a gun if he goes up against gsp again!
He’ll still lose.
I second that. As Hughes said himself when hunting “you only get one shot, if that, and then it’s over”… for Hughes.
Hughes is washed up. He’s outdated. Hurry up and give him the Serra fight and let him leave with some grace and dignity (hopefully).
tripleainto
“who continues to hate on TUF for delaying great fights” UFC 85 could have easily had a Mir and Nogeira main event. Enough soap opera drama, let’s see fights!
I can’t stand Hughes haters. What evidence do you have that Hughes is washed up? He just lost to GSP, damn somebody get a grip. If this is the case and Hughes is washed up, I don’t want to see Diego, Thiago, Fitch, Serra, or Kos fight again, because Hughes can beat the shit out of all of those guys. Get a grip on reality and learn to respect fighters and their levels. Next thing I know you’ll be calling for Franklin to quit because he’s washed up.
yep gotta agree accept for the addition of koscheck and sanchez would be a realtively tough test but i wreckon hughes has the rest of em!
but i agree i suppose hendo is washed up and so is franklin and shogun and tim sylvia and arlovski?
thats just dumb really! hughes to win via tko
Naw, I like Franklin, he can stay. But Hughes is washed up.
“Bic” in regards to Hughes, I have a couple thoughts. I said he is washed up because I haven’t seen a strong performance from him in almost 2 years (when he fought a 170lbs. BJ). Since then he has had his ass handed to him twice by GSP, including once where GSP took the fight on short notice. I’ll give that one to you though because it’s GSP and the only way to beat GSP is with a product that is gunmetal gray that fits in the palm of your hand** (even that’s not guaranteed).
In regards to human fighters, he was lacklustre against Lytle, and you can’t say that wasn’t a lay and pray for 3 rounds. When was the last time you have seen him slam anyone? He hasn’t been dominant in over 2 years (and please don’t include the Royce fight as it’s N/A).
You brought in dudes like Diego, Thiago, Kos, etc but you’re relying on assumptions. They have never fought as you know. I am focusing on facts here and I haven’t seen anything impressive from Matt in a long long time.
Yes, he was great back in the day, but as TC says below, he was a great champ but others have moved forward while he has been left behind. His stand up is subpar by MMA standards and his ground game has become too predictable.
Let’s say this Bic. Thiago is a good test. We’ll talk after the fight. Hughes puts on a great show and I’ll give you props. Thiago puts on a show and you give me props. What do you say? Aside from that, I’d like to hear your argument in regards to why Hughes is still the man as of May 20, 2008.
** in keeping with the theme of this article.
How is Hughes washed up? You are usually losing when that happens, he just can’t beat one guy. Take GSP out of the picture and what do you have? A man who has not been beaten since 2004 against a Prodigy of all people. Seriously its cool that your a fan of MMA but by no means does that make you an expert on when a fighter is over the hill. Show respect to a guy who helped get the sport you like to blog about to where it is today. Ungrateful
I can agree with giving props on that. Hughes is not by definintion washed up, what your trying to explain is a boring fighter. By no means am I arguing there, he did do a boring fight against Lytle but little was all striking so he just tried to defend himself as long as he could. Well you are kind of killing me as well with limiting my fight history here. He recently beat Lytle in between losing to GSP, before that he beat Penn which even though he was losing much of the fight was still an interesting fight especially how he ended the fight by just basicly beating on Penn’s face. Your right the Gracie fight was kind of dumb but he put a submission specialist into a sick Kimura I do believe it was and could have broken the guys arm. Before that was a fight with Riggs which Hughes did dominate and further before that we get into the Hughes slams era. You see my point he doesn’t normally lnP either it just kinda got to that point once Penn and GSP took him on. But your right, I can let Hughes do the talking against Thiago
So he can shoot himself? lol
Hughes sux cow as* and spits bullshit.
hey ktown ur mom should have swallowed you…show the guy some respect
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Small minded people shouldnt be judging others whom you have no clue what kind of person they really are. All you see of Matt Hughes is what you read about . Why dont you take the time to get to know the guy and see for yourself just what he is about.. All this hate is just shameful …. What have all of you done with your lives??? Maybe stop and think about it before posting such nonsence…
hes done a lot for the sport give him a break
well said rick
someone tell Matt Hughes to get a new haircut. ooph. that thing on his head is scary
cut the crap! show us the ARs and carbines you got tucked in the shed. who said you only get 1 shot? lol
he was saying that you only shoot the gun once, the animal goes down and the hunt is over. one shot, thats it.
if it takes you more than one shot to kill a deer or you need an assault rifle to do so then you have no business out in the woods and shouldn’t own a firearm.
agree with you fully and I was just joking by the way.
LoL!
clinging to his gun and religion
i still love matt.
Hughes was a great champion. However, mma has changed so much since his hey day. His lack of stand-up hurts him tremendously.
Only against GSP
I just wanted to take the time to say I love killing animals and letting their carcasses rot in the woods. I am a vegetarian so I don’t eat the meat. I just enjoy the far away look in the eyes of the animals ( elk especially) just before they die. I also hate silly accents of French Canadians. I believe I would literally kill GSP in the Octagon based on my patriotism. You folks have a blessed day. ( some of this comment may or may not be falsified)
WTF??? Matt… is that u? is your psuedo name James S.?
I wish I was Matt Hughes. Then I would probably have something better to do than stare blankley at a computer screen all day.
At least we talk MMA and dont come on here with our random hunting stories . . . Wierdo!!! . . .Creeeeepy! LoL WTF!!!