A few days before UFC 64, Matt Huges made the following post on his personal website blog:
Sunday, October 8, 2006
Tomorrow I’m going to New York, Chuck and I will be on ESPN. Fly back tomorrow night. This week I’ll spend Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning with my brother getting crops out and also trying to spend as much time with my family as I can. Thursday night, my wife and I leave for Las Vegas for the UFC. I hope Rich wins, but if Anderson wins I would consider bumping up to 185 and fighting him. I’ll fly home Sunday.
-Matt
Really, Matt? Do you still want to consider moving up to 185 to fight Silva after what you saw at UFC 64? I really don’t know if Matt’s comments are just a show of bravado or if he is really serious. If he is serious, I’m not really sure what I would make of that fight, but I would have to take Anderson over Hughes at this point. Your thoughts? Do you wanna see Matt Hughes vs. Anderson Silva? If so, who would win?
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wow! thats quite a statement.. I doubt hughes would really move to 185 just to fight silva. But if he did, it would be very interesting heheh im sure hughes wont be standing with him tho heheh, and im not aware of silvas skills on the ground, tho its doubtful that he could hang with hughes on the ground.. Hughes has held his own grappling with some of the best fighters in the world, like royce and BJ. I would like to see hughes at 185, tho i think his frame is suited to 170. I think he could beat silva assuming he put him down and kept him down.
I wouldnt mind seeing this fight heheh
I think he’s nuts.
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I second the insanity defense put forward by Whaledog.
It was only a few weeks ago that we saw Hughes get picked apart by BJ Penn on the feet before Penn gassed and/or was hurt.
Silva would destroy Hughes, keep him at a distance & pepper him with shots. And when Hughes would shoot in for the inevitable takedown try, he’d likely eat a knee the way Carlos Newton did when he tried something similar against Silva several years back. (They had to wake Newton up from that encounter, btw.)
Hughes is an awesome fighter, and Silva is by no means invincible. But this would be a bad matchup for Matt.
I agree as well, of course. Hughes nearly lost to BJ, and I think the big factor in a Silva vs. Hughes fight would be the size matchup. Silva is of course much taller and has a much longer reach than Hughes. Combine that with Silva’s great striking and it would be next to impossible for Matt to get anywhere close to Silva.
Well seeing as how Matt Hughes won’t even beat GSP. Besides, I’m sure if you ask Matt now he’d react differently.
Would I like to see it? Hell Yeah, seeing Matt destroyed would bring me joy.
heheh i dont think you guys are giving hughes enough credit. Theres no doubt silva is a great striker, and he has the height and reach advantage (which works against you on the ground btw) but beyond that, i dont think hes testing hughes on the ground. So the point is, will hughes get him down? I personally think hughes could easily win this fight if he gets him down, and silva can easily win if he doesnt.. If i were betting on this fight, my money would be on hughes, the classic matchu up of the striker and the grappler, and you all seem to give it to the striker automatically. History has shown that the grappler has a big advantage over the striker, it surprises me a bit to hear everyone backing silva, but probably because of his amazing performance against franklin hehehe. Personally i would like to see franklin vs silva 2, as i doubt it would be anything like the first fight. He surprised franklin in that fight, and i dont care how franklin trains, im pretty sure he doesnt push himself enough, when you training at a camp where your the big dog, nobody is gonna push you as hard as you can go. Rich Franklin should join the miletich camp, and live there with them during training. They will push him to realize his full potential. The kind of knowledge and experience you can learn from those guys in invaluable! i know he trains with them sometimes, but hes not a miletich man, those guys eat, sleep and breath training, physical and mental, if he moves to iowa, we would see a strong, tough, conditioned, fearless rich franklin.
All Silva needs is to lern2sprawl…and he’ll win.
I’m kidding…sort of.
Hughes is a legend and a badass but size, reach, kicks, thai clinch, and not too mention that silva is a bjj black belt (which people dont seem to realize). hughes couldnt keep penn down after struggling to get him down and didnt come close to taken gsp down in the 2nd fight.
He wouldnt come close here. SILVA by ko 3:45 in the first round.
I think Hughes would ground and pound Silva. He would have no ground defense against Hughes
YEA I DOUBT THAT KEN…..
SYLVIA HAS GREAT JIU JITSU
This will never happen………………better to wait for Henderson.
Let Matt first worry about regaining his title.
DENNIS
Y DOES RICHARD CALL U HILLBILLY
’cause he’s a Diik!
Matt Hughes would get beat down like a little boy. the only welters that should even think of moving up to fight Anderson are GSP and Fitch. and just maube for Fitch. i think GSP could beat Anderson but Silva would ****** destroy Hughes.