I'll be watching it and have to go with the fighter that I had the privilege to train with in Fort Worth a few years back ROYCE GRACIE!!!!!! Win by submission...2nd Round! My .02

 

I think Royce will submit to Matt. Matt is going to beat him by submission just to prove what a great champion he is. 2nd rd.

 

I think Royce is the OctaGOD ,but I too will go with the younger guns of Matt.

 

"I am going to put him in a submission...make him tap out.....help him up....and send him back home"!!!

-Royce Gracie-

lol

 

Matt all the way

Matt should take it in the first round.

 

I'm still not sure who to pick in this fight. My instinct tells me to go with Hughes, but my mind is telling me to go with Gracie. Matt Hughes is the logical choice. He's younger, stronger, more well-rounded and is very good on the ground, too. But Royce Gracie is, well, Royce Gracie. He's had to beat guys 60 and 70 pounds bigger than him, usually 3 or 4 a night. Matt Hughes has never had to do that. And he has been fighting professionally in Japan the last 3 years. So he shouldn't be rusty at all. I think it comes down to a coin-flip.

If I were betting, I would go with my instinct and say Matt Hughes. I look for a stoppage in the 2nd round due to ground and pound.

 

He also got punked his last fight in Japan, Matt Hughes has this one.

 

This is my house....I build it.

I think Hughes will knock him out. If it goes to the ground, however, he may be in trouble.

 

Gracie

 

Royce will choke him out early in the first.

 

Royce will choke him out early in the first.

I think it will be the second round.

What's the other fights on the card?

 

just wanna see a d**n good fight and hope UFC keeps it's act together and NOT become another "boxing" type mess!

 

Royce might be a lil guy,but he is a tuff and wiggley SOB.Matt Hughes is bigger and may overwhelm Royce at first but Royce will probably choke him out in the 2nd.

 

Main card:
Matt Hughes Vs. Royce Gracie
Brandon Vera Vs. Assuerio Silva
Mike Swick Vs. Joe Riggs
Diego Sanchez Vs. John Alessio

Prelims:
Melvin Guillard Vs. Rick Davis

Spencer Fisher Vs. Matt Wiman
Alessio Sakara Vs. Dean Lister
Gabriel Gonzaga Vs. Fabiano Scherner
Jeremy Horn Vs. Chael Sonnen

 

Swick/Riggs should be a good fight.

 

Id like to see Hoyce win,But I think Matt is gonna..Smoke him..
Oxx..

 

I got $1 + several 0's to put on Matt Hughes.

 

Hughes

 

Anybody know of a sports bar in Clear Lake-Friendswood-League City-Galveston area that might have the event on? I heard buffalo wild wings carries the pay-per-view stuff. Is there one in this area? Sombody help a brutha out.

 

Anybody know of a sports bar in Clear Lake-Friendswood-League City-Galveston area that might have the event on? I heard buffalo wild wings carries the pay-per-view stuff. Is there one in this area? Sombody help a brutha out.

NASA Hooters may have it.

 

i have been training bjj for a while now both cevilian and military and royce is a "god" i nthe jiu jitsu world but the only way he can win is if matt hughes makes a mistake. and matt doesnt make alot of those. yes royce has faught men much larger then him and 3 or 4 a night in the early ufc but go look at the guys he had to fight. only one 2 men had any gruond game. ken shamrock and remco pardoel. shamrock was a joke (still is) and pardoel was afraid from the start (listen to his comments during and after the fights like a scared kid) then you get **** severn he was the only guy who had a chance and he still didnt have the knowledge of the submissions o nteh ground he was just a wrestler, look at the punches he threw, no power.

put matt hughes in those same fights and he would kill someone.the man is a little beast.

matt will win but he ill have to make sure it will be standing.
in the end it will be a split decision due to the gracie guard and the "lay and pray" method matt will use to get it to the feet where he will bloody royce. one judge will give it to royce because, well he is royce freaking gracie.

thanks my prediction.

 

Gotta go with Hughes on this one, he is one bad little son of a gun, figure a choke out in the second round sounds about right

 

Gracie in 2nd round win by submission.

 

i have been training bjj for a while now both cevilian and military and royce is a "god" i nthe jiu jitsu world but the only way he can win is if matt hughes makes a mistake. and matt doesnt make alot of those. yes royce has faught men much larger then him and 3 or 4 a night in the early ufc but go look at the guys he had to fight. only one 2 men had any gruond game. ken shamrock and remco pardoel. shamrock was a joke (still is) and pardoel was afraid from the start (listen to his comments during and after the fights like a scared kid) then you get **** severn he was the only guy who had a chance and he still didnt have the knowledge of the submissions o nteh ground he was just a wrestler, look at the punches he threw, no power.

put matt hughes in those same fights and he would kill someone.the man is a little beast.

matt will win but he ill have to make sure it will be standing.
in the end it will be a split decision due to the gracie guard and the "lay and pray" method matt will use to get it to the feet where he will bloody royce. one judge will give it to royce because, well he is royce freaking gracie.

thanks my prediction.

Ken Shamrock is a Joke? I guess I would expect that sort of comment from somebody who can't spell "civilian" or about 10 other common everyday words. Nobody can compare fighters today with past fighters and accurately predict the outcome. The fighters today have progressed far beyond what we saw in UFC 1 - 3. Ken Shamrock is a shell of what he used to be, but that man was a historical fighter, not only in the UFC but also in shoot fighting and Vale Tudo. How about Pardoel is a NOBODY? His 15 minutes of fame was getting choked out by Gracie. You didn't even mention Kimo! Kimo pounded Royce, and he STILL got the submission. Matt Hughes is an awesome guy, but he is very "submittable" as his record shows. This is going to be a great fight, and Matt's youth gives him the advantage, but win or lose, I'd take Royce's experience anyday.

P.S. there is no "Military Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Civilian BJJ", its just Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. The only difference is whether YOU are in the military or a "cevilian".

 

well you know what your right i cant spell but then does that really matter.and tell me who has shamrock beaten in the last 13 yrs since he got beat by royce? and kimo the guy gets k.o.'ed or choked out all the time. as for pardoel well your comment that he is a nobody is about right but that goes right back to my comment that all of these guys knew nothing about the ground game.and i agree noone cam compair fighters today and yesterday and that is my entire point, everyone keeps talking about how royce beat 3 or 4 in one night so he will beat hughes. thats a load of ****. as for royces "experience", go to www.sherdog.com and look at their records. royce has been fighting 1 fight a year for the last 5 yrs since his "return" to fighting. in that time he is 2-1-3 not to bad right? well the 2 wins where guys with loosing records, the one loss was to sakaraba "the gracie hunter" and his draws where against guys with so- so records. now on to hughes in the same span he has had 28 fights with a record of 25-3 and out of that 6 people had loosing records. and 2 of his loses where to the same person. and the other was b.j.penn who is a beast in his own right.

now onto the military bjj vs "cevilian" bjj it is actually very different, because teh military incorporates much more then just bjj into its system, like muay thai, *****, JKD, and so on.bjj has become a grappling art not i fighting art, unless you want to talk GRACIE JIU JITSU which if you ask the gracies ( among others) is different then BJJ as BJJ has gone the way of judo, to sport.

by the way shamrock really didnt do much vale tudo you must mean "the king of pancrase"
and actually vale tudo was a tv show of no-holds-barred fights in brazile in the 50's and early 60's

Ken Shamrock is a Joke? I guess I would expect that sort of comment from somebody who can't spell "civilian" or about 10 other common everyday words. Nobody can compare fighters today with past fighters and accurately predict the outcome. The fighters today have progressed far beyond what we saw in UFC 1 - 3. Ken Shamrock is a shell of what he used to be, but that man was a historical fighter, not only in the UFC but also in shoot fighting and Vale Tudo. How about Pardoel is a NOBODY? His 15 minutes of fame was getting choked out by Gracie. You didn't even mention Kimo! Kimo pounded Royce, and he STILL got the submission. Matt Hughes is an awesome guy, but he is very "submittable" as his record shows. This is going to be a great fight, and Matt's youth gives him the advantage, but win or lose, I'd take Royce's experience anyday.

P.S. there is no "Military Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Civilian BJJ", its just Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. The only difference is whether YOU are in the military or a "cevilian".