10 Things UFC Wants You To Forget About Matt Hughes
5. Padded Record
Matt Hughes record of 45-9 makes him seem like one of the toughest men to have ever fought in the Octagon, losing a minor 20% of his fights despite being at the top-end of the UFC for a large portion of his fighting career. With wins against ex-champions like B.J Penn, Georges St. Pierre and Matt Serra, it would be wrong to say that Hughes isnt one of the greatest UFC welterweights ever. However, his deep record which makes B.J Penns 16-9 look somewhat abysmal is quite misleading. Many of Matt Hughes wins amassed in the earlier part of his career were against cans who would never have been remotely close to being UFC-calibre fighters. A brief examination of Hughes record revels how poor some of these fighters were. With wins over Hiromitsu Kanehara (19-27), Scott Johnson (5-21), Erick Snyder (2-8), Craig Quick (0-1), Joe Guist (0-2) and Bruce Nelson (25-36) to name but a few - the UFC hall of famers record suddenly seems rather less impressive. The UFC would rather that their welterweight legends padded record were to be forgotten by the MMA community.
Hailing from South East London, Sam Heard is an aspiring writer and recent graduate from the University of Warwick. Sam's favourite things include energy drinks, late nights spent watching the UFC with his girlfriend and annihilating his friends at FIFA.
