Matt Hughes: Made in America (autobiography)

[mmafighting]

Matt Hughes has an autobiography (http://www.mmafighting.com/calendar/) coming out Jan. 1. The excerpts so far are pretty entertaining...

excerpt 1: (joining the UFC)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/ufc/article620940.ece

excerpt 2: (Tim Sylvia)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/ufc/article624007.ece

excerpt 3: (Murray KOs Ortiz)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/ufc/article628431.ece

[sportsgenius86]

wow....somebody should've told the ghostwriter that it was actually FRANK shamrock who fought Tito at UFC 22.....not Ken.

[Gomi]

Good stories !

Lee Murray lore is always welcome ... It's a god damn shame he's rotting away as we speak.

[D241]

wow, i think this book would be a good read but I fear the exerpts are all the good stuff and what I haven't read might be boring....

I like the recap of Murray vs Tito:

In our third exclusive extract, welterweight legend Hughes recalls an infamous fight between Tito Ortiz and Lee Murray after UFC 38 in London back in July 2002...


I took a cab back to the hotel and got to bed. Our flight was leaving early in the morning. I got woken up a couple of hours later by Pat knocking on my door. He was smashed.


“Pat, what’s going on?” I said, grinning to myself. He could barely stand.


“What time is it?” I asked.


“It’s like, five. Don’t worry about it. Just sit down and f***ing listen. You will not believe what just happened.”


I laid on my side of the bed. Pat plopped into the chair in the hotel room and leaned his head back.


“So it’s four o’clock in the morning and they had everybody leave the club, right? Well, the UFC had bussed us all over there but they didn’t have a bus to take us back.


“It’s down to Mark, me, Tony Fryklund, Chuck Liddell, Tito and Lee Murray. Lee Murray’s crew was still there, Tito’s crew was also still there.


“I walked out the back door to go in the alley. Tito’s buddy jumped on my back. He jumped on my back and acted ,like he had me in a choke hold, just messing around, you know?


“Then I felt him get ripped off of me. I turned around and Tony Fryklund had HIM in a chokehold, and was really choking him.


“The guy looked like a mouse that just got trapped in a mousetrap; his eyes were popping out and obviously he wasn’t breathing.


“Tony thought he was actually attacking me – that’s the only reason he did it. So I turned round and told Tony to let him go, and Tony let him go.


“Then Tito’s buddy turned around and basically said ‘what the f*** are you doing?’ to Tony.


“Well, when he said that, one of Lee Murray’s buddies, that one guy who kind of took care of us all week long, thought this guy was actually trying to fight us, so he ran out of the crowd and cracked this kid with a right hand and knocked him out cold.”


“Are you serious?” I asked Pat.


“Hold on, it gets even better. The entire alley erupted into a huge brawl. I was just standing there, and there were bodies flying all over the place.


“I was confused how it all happened, because it happened so fast. I was standing there with my mouth open like ‘what the hell is going on?’


“I looked over and Chuck Liddell was with his back against the wall, knocking people out that were trying to go after him.


“Then I looked over and there’s Tito directly past me, taking his coat off, going after Lee Murray, and Lee Murray’s backing up the alley taking his jacket off.


“Both their jackets come off, and Tito throws a left hook at Lee Murray and misses, and right as he missed, Lee Murray counters with, like, a five-punch combo, landed right on the chin, and knocked Tito out. OUT.


“Tito fell face-first down to the ground, and then Lee Murray stomped him on the face a couple of times with his boots.


“Then Tony Fryklund and I grabbed Lee and pushed Lee and said ‘Get out of here!’ And Lee said ‘I’m sorry, I’ll see you later,’ and took off. And Tony Fryklund helped Tito to his feet.


“Then these English Bobbies showed up and they were threatening to spray the entire crowd with huge canisters of mace. ‘You think you’ve got problems now?’ I said. ‘You spray this entire group of fighters with mace and we’ll all be in a heap of trouble.’


“So I talked the police out of doing that. And then Tony and I got a cab and we headed back here.”


“That’s insane, Pat.” I said.


“Long story short, Matt: I’m ready to get on that plane, pronto.”

Good post MMAfighting, now when are you going to change your avatar? :D

[D241]

Tito must've been drunk if he thought he should use punches to win a fight

[kowarrior]

Tito got taken out by punches on the street? Why wouldn't he go for a takedown since he is a wrestler? Dude can barely keep his balance when he throws punches.:lol:

[Valour5]

Well thats a heap of sh*t because at the time of this infamous incident with Lee Murray, English Policemen didn't carry C S Spray (Mace)

[moco]

hughes is a bitch.

[Adam15]

Excerpt 4: (The fight between GSP and Serra at UFC 69)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/ufc/article635351.ece

And Tim Sylvia's reaction to Matt Hughes' new book!
Audio interview (http://mrsunshinevegas.wordpress.com/2007/12/29/sunshine-exclusive-tim-sylvia-reacts-to-matt-hughes-book/)

Sylvia's interview is quite interesting, he also mentions Fedor and Brock after he talks about the Hughes situation, it's well worth listening to.

[don king]

Matt Hughes is a ***. He has zero class. I've never seen TUF, so until I read his words I didn't realize what a classless azzhole he is. I felt so bad for Timbo that I actually listened to the interview. Unfortunately, it made me go full circle and realize that Matt isn't as much of an azzhole as I thought, because as much as I felt sorry for Timbo and wanted to like him, it was, sadly, impossible. Eat shiit Tim. Just reach behind and grab some from your trunks.

[Thumpin]

Just the excerpts solidifies my opinion that Hughes is an arrogant prick.

[mmafighting]

Did anyone end up picking it up?

I just ordered it. Should be a good read.

[Loot]

I've read various reviews on MMA websites and each one says the book is crap...I also heard Hughes comes across as the prick that he always does and that he gets on his soapbox too often.

In 3 months it will be on Amazon for $2.50, so look for it then.

[the chip guy]

Did anyone end up picking it up?

I just ordered it. Should be a good read.

I was very disappointed with his book. Matt, would only use one or two paragraphs to talk about a fight and then spend the rest of a chapter talking about his personal life, I could care less about his wife having a kindy stone. I would say it's 90% about his personal life, so if you want to know what makes him a dick this is the book for you.

[Snapcat]

I'd only be interested if it has significant reference of Jens, he's the only one of interest to me from MFS other than Pat. In his books Jens mentions how he got to be a good freind of Tim's and even helped train and corner him for his tournements in Hawaii I think it was. How much does it show of Jens?

[the chip guy]

I'd only be interested if it has significant reference of Jens, he's the only one of interest to me from MFS other than Pat. In his books Jens mentions how he got to be a good freind of Tim's and even helped train and corner him for his tournements in Hawaii I think it was. How much does it show of Jens?

Matt talks about Jens almost more than Pat, but he only really has one good story about him, where Bobby Hoffman stoled Jens wrist wraps and Jens called him out on that.