2006-11-18 17:22:42 · 3 answers · asked by matthew w 1 in Sports ➔ Martial Arts
St. Pierre (13-1) pushed the pace early behind leg kicks and the occasional punch as Hughes (42-5) took his time looking for an opening. At the one minute mark of the round, it was St. Pierre picking the action up even more emphatically as he put Hughes on his heels with his impressive standup, which nonetheless brought a smile from the champion. Two low kicks from St. Pierre halted his momentum though as Hughes was forced to take a short break to recover. The Canadian kept his focus upon the restart and went right back to working his faster hands and feet on Hughes and tossing off the Illinois native’s first half-hearted takedown attempt. With under 1:20 to go, St. Pierre opted to take the fight to the canvas and landed some strikes before standing and scoring with a knee. Hughes looked to get back into the scoring column by committing to a takedown, but St. Pierre brushed him off and finished with a right hand that dropped the champion just before the bell intervened.
Hughes began the second round with a smirk, but this was no laughing matter, as St. Pierre was not only winning the standup game, he was showing the physical strength to keep the champion at bay. With 3:45 left, St. Pierre hit paydirt, landing a high left kick that put Hughes on the mat again, this time, the bell wouldn’t save the longtime champion, and with referee John McCarthy’s stoppage at 1:25 of the second, a new king was crowned.
2006-11-18 17:27:53 · answer #1 · answered by Michael H 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Michael H did you copy any paste that from sherdog.com?...
He KTFO that country boy thats how he did it. Watch Matt Hughes fights and everytime that douche bag starts to get his a.ss kicked he pretends he got kicked in the nuts after every leg kick (Trigg, Penn) Matt has gotten extremely lucky his early title defenses were against guys who just werent on the same level but the game caught up to him and they started throwing old men (Royce), little boys (Riggs), or country boy got lucky (Penn). George has not only beaten every opponent he's faced besides Matt (another lucky fight for matt because "rush" was destroying him in that fight too) but he's walked right threw them and made them look like amatuer (kinda like he did matt hughes tonight). His next fight will be in montreal, canada against matt serra, expect that one to last about 20 seconds.
2006-11-18 23:01:45 · answer #2 · answered by Joseph B 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Statistical deduction my friend,
2006-11-18 17:24:59 · answer #3 · answered by Sports Maven 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋