Free Fight: Matt Hughes vs Matt Serra | UFC 98, 2009

All right, gentlemen, that is, give us all a good

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, clean and fair, you would obey my orders. check seven times, connect it. I knew that wasn't happening. I knew that wasn't happening. Sarah set out to take huge tones. He comes out in the left-handed stance because he wants to shoot like a

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er. You lead with your power leg, your power side and he comes out with his right hand forward, which means to me that he wants to shoot with the heavy hand. Matt Serra, there is something to be said though. When a guy starts with a southpaw stance, the best counterattack is a straight right and that's one of the things Matt Serra throws very well.

You know, use one of the most decorated champions, if not the most decorated, of all time, but Matt Serra has been among the elite his entire career and gets one from the beginning here is the power of Matt Serra we didn't even have the chance to see what that shot was that he's still tripping dad, he had to get the big right hand Sara looks ends up, he's in big trouble Mike, he's just trying to make this thing slow down for a second and grabs him by the leg, he's shaking him hard, he looks and he recovers, he shook him big right hand, I know what a head was, but we'll show it in a replay between rounds, but it was a headbutt that heard him gurgling, but still, yeah , they clashed their heads, but then he landed a couple of good punches, now Matt Hughes is recovering here by being able to put pressure on Sara. against the cage, she is recovering now, this is where the strongest, as you mentioned, Matt Hughes will try to wear Matt Serra down right now.

This is Randy Couture's favorite tactic, he loves to keep guys against the cage and in SAP there will be that's what GSP did against BJP exactly, you should recover now maybe, but you know? Are you at 100%? Can you make the same type of shots that you could have made at the beginning of the round? I don't know, it doesn't seem like it in his eyes. Now that's a good point. Joe just passed the halfway point. around 1:00 when

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a big sierra ass sara is so confident inside kick matt's arrow mixes things up ray longo has worked with sarah for years it's amazing well the beautiful thing about having that great base of Brazilian jujitsu is It doesn't worry about being face up, so that gives you more

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Matt's pawn who hits with his right hand in the left-handed style looking for the kick, but keeps the other hand quite low. Joe Mara is very confident now. and that doesn't bode well for Matthews Matt is already hurt to draw first blood towards side control Hughes 101 this is where he is the best he loves, but you know what his running game is also excellent, it's not just a terrestrial pound. but he also has excellent submissions and has Matt Serra's back. Are we going to see a little Frank Trigg here? Look at this, trying to bare the backside, but if Sara can turn around, she'll end up on Matt, he was her guard and Sara put the solution here, yeah, very, very hard to introduce, he's in the blast, he's going to turn, he will try to turn towards Hughes, he is pressing his weight down trying to keep Hughes pinned against his back and he is trying to figure out the exact moment to turn. outside of this, he's doing it right now, he's going to turn to his right shoulder, he seems to do it very well, pretty cloud, Joe and throw that ball, Joe, that's the difference between other opponents, yeah, it's, I want I mean, it's world class. world class Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt and he stayed very calm and waiting for his opportunity very hard to strangle a guy who is really talented, who is in shape, is not tired yet and wears gloves because you can grab the gloves of the guy and it's It's a lot easier than holding guys hands, but in a jiujitsu match when you're not wearing gloves and even harder if it's Matt Serra in the last few seconds of a good start, yeah, here it is, look at this boom BAM, that's what he and I hit him on. the back of the head too right after, brother, what was very telling is that between rounds Matthews said if he would take me down, what that means is that he got hurt a lot, he doesn't remember it until the first one.

The round goes, you have to look at it, what do you judge more? Do you judge the bumps and the fall and Matthew being hurt or do you judge the beautiful? He throws the control into the control and the fact that his back was turned. He tries to catch him. the left was still in that left-handed position. I wonder how much power he really has in his left hand if he wants to turn left right. Joe, well, I think by standing with his right hand forward he is indicating that he is trying to concentrate. In wrestling he has never shown a good straight left hand.

You know, he doesn't want to say that he is a very talented fighter, but he is very talented in using his strength, which is this. Done right, Sarah can put her guard up and she has to be careful with those arms. Sarah loves omoplata and is looking to get her hips out Matt Hughes is looking to pass he has moved to stop in half guard here he uses his passing ability he is simply outstanding he always has been especially with this wrestling foundation well Hughes It is not classified in Brazilian. Jujitsu, but you know, if you were going to rank them, you had to give them a black belt.

I mean the way the guy finished, the guys finished Frank Trigg, the way he finished Joe Riggs, the way he finished George St. Pierre in their first fight with a beautiful armbar from the other side. I mean, it's a high-level move, the way he hit, I mean, he's very talented on the field, he learned a lot from Jeremy at the Miletich camp. Sarah did a good job, not surprising. Half guard Matt Sarah, his wife Ann, just welcomed the baby girl to the family. Sarah is taking a risk here and tries to get her knee between him and Hughes and advance her position to full guard again.

I mean the last time Sarah was hit. Below was the twist back fist to show off Deke's art about eight years ago, yeah, and it was a great opportunity. Sarah has a really good chin and she's tough as nails, so Hughes, as expected, Joe, while you were talking about what her strength is. and that's trying to do exactly this, Sara hits and hits looking for the opportunity for her to get up. Look, she seems unfazed by this, though look at him, she looks up and is back to full guard, yeah, who's just patiently waiting for the opportunity and right. go back to half guard, you know how I am, like the lines that pass there, you like to cut your knee.

You know a lot of guys like half guard, they like the ability to sweep guys from that position, but what Matt Hughes is doing now is winning. this round yes, where the first one was very good, this was a great shot, right here there is one minute left in the second round and Sarah is not threatening from below, she is not threatening with submissions and she has not tried to sweep the five consecutive titles of Hugh. career defenses tie him for first place with Tito Ortiz and Anderson Silva, nine total wins and title fights, which ties him for first place with Randy Couture and he is now trying to tie with Chuck Liddell if the record of UFC is 16 wins inside the octagon, so it's going to be a big night. for Matt Hughes and a great opportunity for Matt Serra, as he said during the build-up to this fight, to beat not one but two Hall of Famers because he believes GSP will be a Hall of Famer one day, as he I know right now, I think they.

I have to plant them and that's what made Sara win, so she's going to do it. Ben, there's only ten seconds left in the round. I could try. Sara will come out swinging in the third round from Chuck with you to Tito and Ken and tonight is the battle of the Hughes bout in Sarah third and final round Sarah is going to pick up the pace with her punches early here in the third round Hughes is going to go for the first opportunity to take him down again attentive to Matt's right hand Sarah oh good right hand from Hughes created the opportunity to take him down Tara stepping forward with the punches Sarah trying to avoid the relentless takedown Matt Hughes but look at this Sarah has one arm crossed he has an omelet plot to position here Matt Hughes, his left arm, is in a very good place here from the bottom.

Matt Hughes, his left arm is trapped and Sarah is smiling. Joe, what can you do to end well? What you have to do is put that right leg out. Look, this is putting the leg over the face, but Matt Hughes is slowly trying to get into an up stance and pull out what's a shoulder block, but like Matt Hughes, okay, he's holding it here, he's holding this position. , what we call, we call. Easy dog ​​because you're basically calming a guy down you're holding that foot over your arm and Matt's offside and he goes back to full guard he's doing it again now the nice thing about this place is Matt Serra's protected on the bottom checking in on Hughes, his arm is defending very well, he is out of play now, although Hughes is out and Hughes is looking to pass in standing triangle, short legs, although very difficult to finish, he tried to roll into an armbar, Matt Hughes comes out from behind. to full guard, but at least Sarah is now threatening from the bottom, which is good, but there's not much time left, two minutes and 20 seconds left and you know Matt Hughes is on top even though Matt Serra tried some submissions, you have to use the round. for taking them down keeping them in this position dictating where the fight will take place just over two minutes left in the fight pick them up Steve mazza Gatti that's what Sarah wants that's why while we watch Joe Budden's neutralized Hughes pin down and you say it's not happening, which would give Mazda Gotti every reason to stand them up, yes Hughes would like to advance this position, there you go, there you go, actually one minute and 40 seconds left, time to go crazy by Matt Serra Matt Hughes Matt Matt started a great job calling all the strikes and guarding there but he still has to do something here he is behind on the judges' scorecards you would think the right hand Sara is going to go for the home run look at the clock 1:15 left oh look that you want to punch my face it's so mean do it Sara just wants him to commit so she can counter use won't have any of that minutes ago this is not what Sara wants who has a great and difficult game if she can pass Matt use the guard, there's not much time left on the clock as Matt Serra's enemy right here Joe Matt Serra is grabbing a leg here, he might be thinking about backing up for a knee bar, but the fact is this is points and ends to nail Matt, he was 19 seconds, 15 seconds, he knows he can't kneel. him but he can hit it and he does, so I looked for one more chance to finish this fight, he has a Kimura on the left arm of Matt Jesus, the judges will make their decision, look at Hughes and Sarah go all the way, it's nice to see, ladies and gentlemen after three rounds of action we go to the judges' scorecards for their decision the three judges score this contest 29-28 declared the winner by unanimous decision