@@SublineYT nah he was mainly a brawler and took too much damage. Prime lawler could never beat diaz, gsp or hughes. Usman no way. Colby nope. Woodley no
he got old man. He had a long run before he faced gsp the first time. Back then sports science, training in mma, nutrition was ass compared to the 2010s and today. Like counting macros and calories and progressive overload was not widely known back then believe it or not, neither was cte. Fighters fought a lot and did not get paid a lot so they tried to fight regularly like 5 to 6 times a year if they could. 3-4 at least. Because they fought so much they were constantly recovering from a fight and immediately getting into fight camp to get in shape with little time to only work on their base and a specific game plan to win, not much time to learn new skills or heal up. They also trained hard sparing, hard grappling, and trainned hard with their teammates year round. He had 41 mma fights when he faced GSP. Taking everything in consideration he was an old man. Khabib and GSP retired from welterweight and being active at a younger age than matt Hughes fought gsp the second time. He was 33-34 when he faced prime GSP the second time. GSP also spent years studying matt hughes, bj penn, tito. He had a elite base in point fighting karate and karate, trained in bj, and learned folk style wrestling with a focus on solely mma so he was the first of his kind oh boxing too. Hughes was the first guy that was fucked up strong, like elite strength and had elite folk style wrestling,gnp. and great bjj that had stand up with dirty boxing. He was miles better than everyone at welterweight. GSP was the evolution of that with muy Thai, karate, not ncaa Folkstyle wrestling but folk style focused on mma solely...khabib is a continuation of that. Like tito was the guy after coleman to advance gnp....he had got stand up and like Hughes fucked up strong, had bjj, but he advanced gnp with not needing to advance from guard he could elbow you to death from guard or half guard and he had a great single and double plus if you sprawled before it was out lawed....tito was the beast at reversing a head lock or top position quickly in a spraw, getting on top of your neck holding your head so your face was open and making so you could not move and kneeing your head to cte. The rule change killed him. He used to be able to spam double legs and single none stop because he had a granite chin and he eventually would trick you into over commiting it and it was kneee time.
I love how Hughes continues to smugly smile almost the entire first round while getting completely lit up, but that smile fanishes permanently at about 4:55 of the 1st, never to return in this fight or the next. If Hughes didn't get the message that he was completely owned by GSP before that, he knew it after that, when he told his corner, "TALK TO ME!!" He couldn't take him down, he couldn't beat him standing, he couldn't beat him anywhere. He had no idea how to beat this guy, and he wasn't going to get his ass kicked from that point on if they ever continued to fight. And it did. And it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
it wasn't a cocky smile he got kneed in the rib when he came up/broke from the sprawl...it was painful exhale smile mostly. He did great during the stand up in rd 1 and almost caught george a few times which gsp acknowledged and he was rolling evading a lot of gsp well timed and placed stikes hence the high five. Hughes was not a stand up dude and the fact he did so good against gsp in the stand up was impressive. He really trainned his kick boxing, boxing and made a massive improvement in a short amount a time the last year for this fight and the camp for this fight. He was smiling a bit because he was surprised he was doing so well. Even after the two clear low blows, getting taken down, he was figuring out and able to do a well timed take down attempt on George and even after loosing the round and low blows etc he still was clearly stronger and better in that department. The fact GSP spammed and tried like hell to not grind and grapple for control and instead sprawled all out to keep it standing let hughes know GSP still feared his ground game and did not want to be taken down. After that GSP rocked the shit out of him. Hughes was old here, had a long career. I am surprised he did so well. IDK if hughes was owned rd 1. GSP for the first half of his career was an elite fast athlete who was mainly a standup guy with great kick boxing/karate style with boxing. He did have the ability to explode and do a single leg after a blitz and do some gnp but he was mainly an athletic striker that tko'd guys. he was not the folkstyle gnp bjj guy yet. He used to trade and bang and blitz. BJ and Searra changed that because people realized gsp was a bleeder and did not have a great chin. GSP realized that too and shifted to wrestling gnp and greg Jacksons win rounds play it safe game plans instead of bang go for the tko.
Matt Serra beat GSP, Matt Hughes beat GSP, and BJ penn beat Matt Serra and BJ Penn beat Matt Hughes twice, and BJ Penn busted GSP up on their first fight. BJ Penn = GOAT.
Penn was phenomenal in his prime, but he couldn't quit eating pineapple cake long enough to develop some cardio. He was one of the most naturally gifted fighters around, but he leaned on that too much and got beat up when a fight went more than two rounds.
Crazy to think how far UFC has come. These guys were the best of their time but Hughes would prolly be outside of top 5 and GSP may not be champion if they were fighting today's welterweights Thank you for the upload
GSP was a very high IQ fighter and could still be champ. But many of these WW have a strong chance of beating him. Belal, Shavkat, Leon and Usman would give him a run for his money
That’s such a stupid comment that I had to drop in and in and simply say GSP ‘s skill set has still not been matched in today MMA to the degree and knowledge to react and utilize all his skill set to the highest ability. I stand corrected Jon Bones has been able accomplish the same skill sets that he remains champion to this day!
4:51 Okay. At first i thought maybe george juct wasnt accurate with his kicks...nervous cuz its a title shot. BUT TWO square connections wityh either the nut guard or the nuts(hitting the guard shoots the guard agaisnt the nuts.) Is a litle suspicious. THEN right after hugh comes back he switches to head kicks KNOWING full well hugh when he first sees the first movement of georges kick will instinctively flinch remembering a kick might hit his nuts.....MAn Im ashamed for GSP right now. I say hes a cheater.
Two professionals. Two of the best of all time. Great to see the mutual respect between them.
Gsp was such a beast man once in a lifetime athlete
not really, mostlly decision wins.
@@john-j7e7eypu obviously know nothing about the sport
@@john-j7e7e So? He's still an elite athlete and his finish rate is 54% anyway.
It’s great to say how far we have come with the ufc. Theses men and women gave their all to make the ufc what it is today. All things evolve.
Two of the top five welterweights of all time
GSP, Matt Hughes, Nick Diaz, BJ Penn and Anderson Silva.
@@c.markdavis2143 Silva was never a WW and Penn's peak was at LW, Usman and Woodley are top 5
@@c.markdavis2143 Worst list. It's GSP, Usman, Hughes, Woodley, then maybe leon 5
@milky4887 Lawler is #5
@@SublineYT nah he was mainly a brawler and took too much damage. Prime lawler could never beat diaz, gsp or hughes. Usman no way. Colby nope. Woodley no
U ok man?! GSP is definition of class. Respect 🙏🏼✊🏼💪🏻
Goldberg just interrupting Randy every 2 seconds lol
Matt Hughes looked like an amateur vs GSP. In all 3 fights, even the 1st one when he won the fight.
he got old man. He had a long run before he faced gsp the first time. Back then sports science, training in mma, nutrition was ass compared to the 2010s and today. Like counting macros and calories and progressive overload was not widely known back then believe it or not, neither was cte. Fighters fought a lot and did not get paid a lot so they tried to fight regularly like 5 to 6 times a year if they could. 3-4 at least. Because they fought so much they were constantly recovering from a fight and immediately getting into fight camp to get in shape with little time to only work on their base and a specific game plan to win, not much time to learn new skills or heal up. They also trained hard sparing, hard grappling, and trainned hard with their teammates year round. He had 41 mma fights when he faced GSP. Taking everything in consideration he was an old man. Khabib and GSP retired from welterweight and being active at a younger age than matt Hughes fought gsp the second time. He was 33-34 when he faced prime GSP the second time. GSP also spent years studying matt hughes, bj penn, tito. He had a elite base in point fighting karate and karate, trained in bj, and learned folk style wrestling with a focus on solely mma so he was the first of his kind oh boxing too. Hughes was the first guy that was fucked up strong, like elite strength and had elite folk style wrestling,gnp. and great bjj that had stand up with dirty boxing. He was miles better than everyone at welterweight. GSP was the evolution of that with muy Thai, karate, not ncaa Folkstyle wrestling but folk style focused on mma solely...khabib is a continuation of that.
Like tito was the guy after coleman to advance gnp....he had got stand up and like Hughes fucked up strong, had bjj, but he advanced gnp with not needing to advance from guard he could elbow you to death from guard or half guard and he had a great single and double plus if you sprawled before it was out lawed....tito was the beast at reversing a head lock or top position quickly in a spraw, getting on top of your neck holding your head so your face was open and making so you could not move and kneeing your head to cte. The rule change killed him. He used to be able to spam double legs and single none stop because he had a granite chin and he eventually would trick you into over commiting it and it was kneee time.
Time goes way too fast. His run was amazing!
I love how Hughes continues to smugly smile almost the entire first round while getting completely lit up, but that smile fanishes permanently at about 4:55 of the 1st, never to return in this fight or the next. If Hughes didn't get the message that he was completely owned by GSP before that, he knew it after that, when he told his corner, "TALK TO ME!!" He couldn't take him down, he couldn't beat him standing, he couldn't beat him anywhere. He had no idea how to beat this guy, and he wasn't going to get his ass kicked from that point on if they ever continued to fight. And it did. And it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
it wasn't a cocky smile he got kneed in the rib when he came up/broke from the sprawl...it was painful exhale smile mostly. He did great during the stand up in rd 1 and almost caught george a few times which gsp acknowledged and he was rolling evading a lot of gsp well timed and placed stikes hence the high five. Hughes was not a stand up dude and the fact he did so good against gsp in the stand up was impressive. He really trainned his kick boxing, boxing and made a massive improvement in a short amount a time the last year for this fight and the camp for this fight.
He was smiling a bit because he was surprised he was doing so well. Even after the two clear low blows, getting taken down, he was figuring out and able to do a well timed take down attempt on George and even after loosing the round and low blows etc he still was clearly stronger and better in that department. The fact GSP spammed and tried like hell to not grind and grapple for control and instead sprawled all out to keep it standing let hughes know GSP still feared his ground game and did not want to be taken down.
After that GSP rocked the shit out of him.
Hughes was old here, had a long career. I am surprised he did so well.
IDK if hughes was owned rd 1. GSP for the first half of his career was an elite fast athlete who was mainly a standup guy with great kick boxing/karate style with boxing. He did have the ability to explode and do a single leg after a blitz and do some gnp but he was mainly an athletic striker that tko'd guys. he was not the folkstyle gnp bjj guy yet. He used to trade and bang and blitz. BJ and Searra changed that because people realized gsp was a bleeder and did not have a great chin. GSP realized that too and shifted to wrestling gnp and greg Jacksons win rounds play it safe game plans instead of bang go for the tko.
I'd say GSP is one of the most rounded fighters of his time. That said USA!
Gsp is legendary
The kick in the 2nd Round by GSP was like cobra Kai sweep the leg
His repeated groin shots in the first were No Mercy
At 7:01 GSP looked at Hughes like "you lucky bastard"
Two gr8 warriors can't choose which 1
They should award ten points for having to tussle through a nut punch gut ache.
Matt was trying to manipulate John McCarthy into not allowing GSP to kick him at all. Pathetic..
Nah .... to be fair... both shots were on the family jewels...totally accidental I agree ... but I don't believe he tried to influence Big John...
4:33 Jon with the eye pokes, GSP with the nut shots
Gsp: The Goat Saga
Ref stopped the fight about 8 strikes late
I hear Donal Trump in the commentary
Matt Serra beat GSP, Matt Hughes beat GSP, and BJ penn beat Matt Serra and BJ Penn beat Matt Hughes twice, and BJ Penn busted GSP up on their first fight.
BJ Penn = GOAT.
Penn was phenomenal in his prime, but he couldn't quit eating pineapple cake long enough to develop some cardio. He was one of the most naturally gifted fighters around, but he leaned on that too much and got beat up when a fight went more than two rounds.
that was complete murder with no evidence
Hughes looked like he wanted to lose this fight. He threw nothing.
George “Nutkicker” St Pierre
Matt "Drama Queen" Hughes.
@@Liam-zw1ek somewhere in between both your comments is the truth ... 🙄😂
Crazy to think how far UFC has come. These guys were the best of their time but Hughes would prolly be outside of top 5 and GSP may not be champion if they were fighting today's welterweights
Thank you for the upload
I stil think GSP could be a champ in today’s modern era. Him and Jones I believe would be champs, and Anderson Silva and Cain would be top contenders.
GSP’s skill set transcends His jab sequence would murder the top welterweights today
This is a crazy take lol. Having GSP lower than number two all time is a crime
GSP was a very high IQ fighter and could still be champ. But many of these WW have a strong chance of beating him. Belal, Shavkat, Leon and Usman would give him a run for his money
That’s such a stupid comment that I had to drop in and in and simply say GSP ‘s skill set has still not been matched in today MMA to the degree and knowledge to react and utilize all his skill set to the highest ability. I stand corrected Jon Bones has been able accomplish the same skill sets that he remains champion to this day!
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Matt Serra knocked GSP out.
And then commenced to have his ass handed to him in the 2nd fight.
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a couple of classy fighters and men! GSP was in top shape and form so he was almost impossible to beat no matter who you were!
I never did like this fight. Not after two opening shots to the coinpurse.
Dirty punk ball kicks twice what the! Dis qualify him.
🤣🤣
Matt Hughes faking all the low blows was classless and pathetic.
4:51 Okay. At first i thought maybe george juct wasnt accurate with his kicks...nervous cuz its a title shot. BUT TWO square connections wityh either the nut guard or the nuts(hitting the guard shoots the guard agaisnt the nuts.) Is a litle suspicious.
THEN right after hugh comes back he switches to head kicks KNOWING full well hugh when he first sees the first movement of georges kick will instinctively flinch remembering a kick might hit his nuts.....MAn Im ashamed for GSP right now.
I say hes a cheater.
That is reaching a little bit.
O campeão mais sem graça da história do mma
Yes but now ? Ha ha
Matt being a bit of a drama queen lol