Would Matt Hughes be top 9 in today stacked welterweight division?

[BoD 2.0]

Hughes would be top 3 today.

 

[acannxr]

 

[BoD 2.0]

Champion : Tyron Woodley woodley by ko
1 Stephen Thompson Matt get tool'd
2 Rafael Dos Anjos ^
3 Colby Covington Colby by better striking
4 Robbie Lawler lawler by ko
5 Demian Maia Matt get submitted
6 Jorge Masvidal masvidal by ko
7 Darren Till till by ko
8 Neil Magny mangy by UD
9 Kamaru Usman by whatever he want

He might beat Magny and Till. Might. The rest would beat him. We haven't seen Till against a top wrestler yet.

 

[MescalineDreams]

Hughes would be top 3 today.

 

[Sansnom]

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[Kung Fu bb]

Colby actually shown some decent boxing in the Maia fight

 

[Dozer .]

Prime Hughes m would be lucky to make it to the top 10

 

[cmw43]

It's really kind of a ridiculous idea to compare a fighter of a different era to the current one.

Still works at HW, half of the rankings are the guys from the old days:

Arlovski - debut 1999
Reem - debut 1999
Werdum - debut 2002
Hunt - debut 2004 (MMA) 1999 (kickboxing)

Even at WW Lawler and Maia debuted in 2001 and Masvidal in 2003 and they're still top 10.

Hughes wrestling and subs would still be great if he were in his prime today, he'd have problems with his striking but I could see him matching up well with Covington, Masvidal or Maia.

 

[Ilovepizza]

we need a time machine otherwise its only bullshit talk

 

[90 50]

Hughes would be champ again.

 

[JT RIPPER]

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[Thunderchild]

They really need a 6 month waiting period for starting threads

10 likes if I could...

 

[3sumrock]

Hughes was good in his era but he would get absolutely dominated by any top 9

 

[SKITZADACTYL]

yeah definitely, people forget how good prime hughes was, and new fans don't even know.

 

[HomeRun916]

Top 5. Maybe champion.

 

[Spiderbite]

It's ironic that Matt Hughes already answered a version of this question.

 

[SKITZADACTYL]

LMAO. I didnt want to say nothing cause their striking both suck but I think Matt might be better. Also I think Matt Could have beaten some of those guys in a good night. Against all those 9 fighters I would say he would go 3-6. The only definite losses for him are Till, Stephens and Woodley

K1 hughes pieces colby the fuck up, and prime hughes was a better, more well rounded grappler than colby.

 

[giantveggie]

No, Matt has CTE and drove his truck in front of train. He's lucky he can walk at this point.

 

[#1StockTrader]

K1 hughes pieces colby the fuck up, and prime hughes was a better, more well rounded grappler than colby.

Why you think I favored Matt or Colby? Cause K1 Hughes is when Matt went super saiyan.

 

[Stevanchez]

Still works at HW, half of the rankings are the guys from the old days:

Arlovski - debut 1999
Reem - debut 1999
Werdum - debut 2002
Hunt - debut 2004 (MMA) 1999 (kickboxing)

Even at WW Lawler and Maia debuted in 2001 and Masvidal in 2003 and they're still top 10.

Hughes wrestling and subs would still be great if he were in his prime today, he'd have problems with his striking but I could see him matching up well with Covington, Masvidal or Maia.

Don't you know, old fighters wouldn't be able to compete today because of the evolution of the sport. Except for those that do, but they evolved with the sport and despite being older, slower, less athletic, and having weaker chins, they are 10x better then they ever were.

Arlovski - boxing is better than ever
Werdum - added a one-two and knees and is now a better striker than any HW pre-2015
Hunt - despite still being takendown at will by every offensive grappler he faces, has better TDD and JJ than ever before
Reem - got big, nuff said
Lawler - learned how to block every other punch with his hands and not blow his load throwing nothing but bombs(and Lawler is one of my favourite fighters)
Maia - I can't even sarcastically make up something, he just switched weightclasses and is fighting smaller guys that are easier to take down