Hughes’ New Schedule: Annual
Jake Rossen Dec 1, 2009
Layoffs are ugly. 10-20 rounds of hard sparring a week is never a
substitute for someone trying to remove your head for a prize.
While you stutter and recline and make new notches for your belt,
another guy is missing his kids and spitting blood on his
dashboard.
In adopting what appears to be a spartan work philosophy, Matt Hughes is setting himself up for some serious career trauma: he’s targeted an April 2010 return date via his blog. That would mean nearly a year’s absence from a May 2009 fight with Matt Serra, which was itself nearly a year removed from a June 2008 bout with Thiago Alves. You could time your colonoscopy screenings by this schedule.
Against both Alves and Serra, Hughes looked nothing like the steamroller of years past: how much of that is due to fighting better competition or age and how much of it is his reluctance to mix it up every few months is debatable. But it’s not helping.
In adopting what appears to be a spartan work philosophy, Matt Hughes is setting himself up for some serious career trauma: he’s targeted an April 2010 return date via his blog. That would mean nearly a year’s absence from a May 2009 fight with Matt Serra, which was itself nearly a year removed from a June 2008 bout with Thiago Alves. You could time your colonoscopy screenings by this schedule.
Against both Alves and Serra, Hughes looked nothing like the steamroller of years past: how much of that is due to fighting better competition or age and how much of it is his reluctance to mix it up every few months is debatable. But it’s not helping.
