How good was Matt Hughes as a grappler?

[jko1355]

That would have been impressive enough.
But this wasn't even a guillotine. It was like a head-and-arm choke from a front-headlock position... The only one I can ever remember being finished in the UFC.

Like an inverted arm triangle

 

[Local Plata]

Since when is Tito the gold standard of grappling?

Didn't say he was. But he was a two time JC state champ and all american, and probably had close to 40 pounds on Hughes. Hughes himself was a 2 time all american in college iirc and beat Ricardo Almeida and Jeremy Horn in ADCC...so yeah I'd say he was an elite grappler for the time.

 

[Bouboumaster]

GSP at A?
Wtf?

He's either A+ or S

 

[MacGregor]

 

[Bend NvR Break]

Good enough to out BJJ really good BJJ black belts without actually having a BJJ belt. Kinda like Jon Jones.

He's in the A category. Royce, after Matt beat him, said he was happy Matt used BJJ to beat him. Matt later corrected him and said he just used regular wrestling.

 

[mister piscadinha]

I've watched some Hughes old fights and I realized he had a bjj well above average UFC elite wreslters. He has around thirteen subs in his career, a pretty expressive number for a wreslter

In which class of the best grapplers in history would you place him?

A+:
Khabib
Chimaev
Islam
Jones

A:
DC
GSP
MM
Cejudo

B+
BJ
Fedor
Shields
Maia
Weidman
Usman
Couture
Velasquez
Werdum
Jacaré
Charles
Merab
Davis
Rashad
Arman
Hughes

B
Barnett
Big Nog
Mir
Colby
Woodley
Sterling
Tito
Saku
Mendes
Cruz
Fitch
Arona

what a terrible tierlist