If you had to pick one of your most favorite UFC welterweight fighters of all time who would it be? My all time favorite is none other than Matt Hughes who happens to be a 9 time UFC Welterweight Champion and UFC Hall of Famer.
It’s hard to believe that it has been two years since mma legend Matt Hughes, had retired from active mma competition. I consider Matt a pioneer in the welterweight division. I know probably many of you would say how can i overlook Georges St Pierre? GSP was a great champion in all. But I really respect Matt in and out the Octagon a lot. So of course I head over to youtube to watch some throwbacks of Matt inside the Octagon. I started to wonder if Matt had one more fight left in him. So i ran across an interview Matt did with German outlet Groundandpound.de. Here is the kicker according to Matt Hughes, a return to the UFC would only require one little thing:
“For Dana White to say ‘come back’. That’s all it would take, a phone call from Dana and I would be back! I’m a little old, I’m 41 years old and I’d have to be careful with my opponent, but I’m still a competitor and I’d love to get in there.”
Although Hughes wants to choose his opponent for a potential UFC return carefully, he quickly named one right away:
“Matt Serra and I had a good match this last time and we’ve got our differences. So he’s been asking for a rematch forever and I’d give it to him if he wanted to.”
I actually watched that fight on UFC fight pass where Matt Hughes beat Serra via decision six years ago at UFC 98 in what turned out to be Fight of the Night performance. Can you imagine such a rematch between both of them? That would surely attract quite a few of viewers if you ask me it could be one of those great comeback fights. If you look at how well Bellator did ratings wise with Tito Ortiz and Stephan Bonnar? Now you have Ken Shamrock versus Kimbo Slice so I wonder if this becoming a popular trend? In case you are Matt Hughes fan here are some pretty cool most recent interviews with Matt Hughes.
MMA Legend Matt Hughes interview on the snp show mma radio
fast forward to around the 34:00 minute mark to here his interview.
Matt Hughes why he is against TRT sherdog interview.
http://www.sherdog.com/videos/videointerview/Matt-Hughes-Why-Im-Against-TRT-6001
Who is your favorite welterweight of all time?