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Originally Posted by Daniel
I don't like the idea of Matt Hughes going back to his roots and becoming the fighter he was. He needs to evolve with the sport or he's going to get left behind. The WW division is packed with wrestlers -Koscheck, GSP, Burkman, and Judo man Parisyan, not to mention Swick's takedown defense looked solid against Burkman...and all of these guys can strike, too. Hughes needs a new camp and new training partners and some new moves or I don't think he's going to get another title shot. I think his one dimensional game is just too easy to prepare for.
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What do you want him to do?
Pray Jebus for some striking skills and a phenomenal guard?
He
can't evolve. Not significantly anyway.
His game will be enough for a lot of guys still, but the belt is out of his reach now. The competition just passed him by.
Saying he needs to evolve is like telling Sergei Bubka at the end of his career that he needs to evolve because the Chinese found a guy that can jump 6,5 meters. He's not getting any younger or more athletic. He's been training striking and submissions for quite some time now. Expecting any evolution from him at this point is naiive.
Which I think is fitting because he might be a creationist anyway.
Ahaha, sick burn!
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Originally Posted by OneBigThrow
whats the problem? the guy was completely respecful...do you want him to die in his sleep
hell i like his assessment of thiago, the man tells it like it is
not many fighters admit that they had good positions yet were powerless to do anything with it
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Yeah, you misunderstood.
That was one of bb's classic pre-emptive strikes on people who don't like Hughes. Matt needs that nowadays. Oh, remember the days when he was everyone's hero? How the mighty have fallen...