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Traces the story of a highly decorated ultimate fighting champion from his childhood on an Illinois family farm and youthful athletic escapades with his twin brother to his early records in the octagon and his defeat of world champion Carlos Newton. 50,000 first printing.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon Spotlight Entertainment; First Edition (January 1, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 141694883X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1416948834
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.24 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 10 inches
Reviewer: Khaled
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice Autobiography of an MMA Champion and Hall of Famer
Review: I really enjoyed reading this book. It is like reading a novel. You read about the life story of Matt Hughes in a novelistic way. He comprehensively discusses his childhood, upbringing, love life, and fight life.This is by far one of the most interesting MMA autobiographies I've read so far. I've read some boring autobiographies were the author just described all the moves in every fight he had (why describe the details, we can watch them on TV?!), another very enjoyable autobiography (Chuck Liddel's book), and I've read a very funny MMA autobiography (Forrest Griffin's book). Each one has its own taste, however the book written by Matt Hughes was novelistic in the sense that you enjoy what you read and can't stop.Matt Hughes is an MMA Champion. But there's more to Matt Hughes life than MMA that is worth knowing about, which is provided in this book.I highly recommend buying it.

Reviewer: Steve Shore
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One of the best sports biographies ever written!
Review: Matt Hughes puts together a book with just the right amount of "pre-UFC" info along with stories of his famous battles to make this a must read. The book gives a "just a regular guy" perspective as you read not only the thoughts of a UFC warrior on his likes and dislikes of the UFC and his foes, but also see the softer side in the way he loves his family and GOD. Also, reading about the crazy situations he got himself into with his brother (when he was a child as well as in his college days) brought back memories of things I had gotten into back in those days as well. All in all a great biography if you are an MMA fan. Sometimes I find it hard to sit and read (many times getting bored with a book and never finishing it), but I read this book cover to cover over a 3 day span.

Reviewer: Kevin Quinley
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Rear-Naked Choke on Reality but - Entertaining for MMA Fans ...
Review: First, let's deal with the hype of the book's immodest subtitle. "The Most Champion in UFC History"?? Uh .... well, there is a guy named Randy Couture and his following who may have something it to say about that. When their respective careers have ended, there is little doubt that - as great as Matt Hughes was - Couture's legacy will overshadow that of the dude from Hillsboro.At his peak, Matt Hughes was a "monster," in the best MMA sense of the word - a one-man wrecking crew who elevated the "ground and pound" to an art form. He was scary strong and could submit opponents with punches, arm-bars or chokes. Choose your poison."Made in America", which begins rather abruptly and with little context, is not altogether a flattering portrait. For example, the dude needs some anger management lessons. So his Dad used to come home in a grouchy mood. So Matt and his brother gang up to beat up the old man. Matt's twin brother was 90 minutes late picking him up, so Matt punches him in the face. At his brother's wedding reception, some local boys try to pick up some girls so Hughes and his brother take off to try to beat the #$%$ out of them.Start to see a familiar pattern here?Other unflattering aspects to Hughes are self-revealed. For example, Hughes treats Tim Sylvia like dirt when the latter arrives at the Miletich Fighting Systems gym in Bettendorf, IA. Even when Sylvia reaches out to Hughes and tries to mend fences, Hughes blows him off. Later, though, when Hughes is committed to a publicity appearance on the very day his wife is having a C-section, who does he call to bail his butt out? Tim Sylvia!One chapter briefly covers Hughes' religious conversion to Christianity while on a mission at a Mexican orphanage. Later, in the second fight against Penn, Hughes calls on strength from Christ during the fight and comes back to win (ironically, catching and pounding Penn in a hold known as "the crucifix," a bit of irony that I would not have otherwise noticed).The autobiography is still going to be an interesting read for MMA fans. Hughes' ascension roughly paralleled the rise of MMA and the UFC from that of a fringe sport to a multi-million dollar mainstream athletic event that is covered by the likes of ESPN and Sports Illustrated. The inside perspectives from the Frank Trigg battles, the Royce Gracie "fight," B.J. Penn 1.0 and 2.0 and the first two fights against George St. Pierre are interesting."Made in America" comes out as Hughes - now well into his 30's - is clearly in the twilight of his MMA career. He said as much on the last series of TUF when he mused aloud about having only a few more fights left. He was totally dominated by GSP and tapped out in their third fight in late December 2007. One can only hope that we will still see Hughes vs. Matt Serra before retirement looms, as there is genuine bad blood between the two.Despite his waning skills and the rise of other fighters at 170 who clearly eclipse Hughes, he has rightly earned his place in the pantheon of UFC and MMA greats.No one will mistake Matt Hughes for Ernest Hemmingway. (On the other hand, I doubt that Hemingway was any good at a flying rear naked choke, a la the kind Hughes whipped on Frank Trigg.) I confess to being a big Matt Hughes fan. This book tells you more about the guy, warts and all. It is not a work of great literature and doesn't aspire to be. For the MMA fan and enthusiast, it is a quick and still entertaining read.

Reviewer: Disco Inferno
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: If you like Matt, you'll love this book.
Review: This book just confirms what most already knew. Matt is an arrogant jerk to put it nicely, but this book made me laugh out loud in real life on several occasions. I've known of Matt since his high school wrestling days, and growing up in IL myself, I had to get it. I'm glad I did. If you're looking for an intelligent, thought provoking novel look elsewhere. If you want a glimpse at how one of your favorite fighters grew up, and take a look at his fighting career from Jr. High to one of his last wins in the UFC with a few laughs at his training partners expense along the way, then this book is for you.

Reviewer: bumgrappler
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: great book to find out about one of the greatest fighters of all time!
Review: this dives into the life of matt hughes. very entertaining from childhood on.

Reviewer: Will Pulgarin
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Caught in the Middle
Review: Matt Hughes has been one of the most dominate champions the UFC has ever known. This book is essentially his life's story, and how a man went from a small rural town to the big lights of the UFC.The book is honest and revealing: Everything from street fights to his conversion to Christianity, to his near death experience at the swirl pool to his long up and downs with his current wife. The book does a great job of capturing Hughes' voice and personality.I found this book to be more entertaining than Iceman: My Fighting Life (although I would never say that to Liddell's face). Nevertheless, both were great reads and provide extraordinary behind-the-door information about the fastest growing sport in the country.

Reviewer: HOCKEY_ROCKS
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Great read, binding fell apart though.

Reviewer: john fahy
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Pretty poorly written and the author is lacking humility or empathy, read GSP’s or Bisping’s book for a much more informative overview of MMA

Reviewer: K. G. A. Alavi
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I have been a Matt Hughes fan since the Brawl at the (Royal Albert) Hall, I saw him fight, reverse and finally ground and pound Carlos Newton into submission.I found some of this book interesting, all the parts about fighting were really well done, the part that did not come across as all well was Matt Hughes the person. He does come across as a bully at best at worst an ego manic that he has been accused of recently. Then again the UFC does not stand for the Ultimate Friends Championship; Matt is in his prime when he is talking about fighting, and his many victories. Unquestionably Matt is going to be remembered as one of the greatest welterweight fighter of all time, not for his sense of humour. I got a really mean spirited vibe from his sense of humour. All credit to Matt he did not lie or try and make himself look like something he is not.It was interesting to get into Matt's head especially the second BJ Penn fight, from the books version Matt started the fight with a healthy respect for Penn's abilities, but the way he describes the fight it's self matt seemed to think he was dominating the fight from start to finish, if you actually watch the fight, it looked the other way around, which Matt admitted in the post fight interview "I knew I lost the first 2 rounds so I knew I have to win the next 3".The one thing about this book is Matt's honestly, his attitude is this is what I think and this is what I am going to do I really don't care how that sounds like to anybody else and as you will find that gets him into trouble and on the bad side of more then one person, he wrote the book the same way. This allows the reader to make their own judgement of Matt Hughes good or bad guy. All in all top fighter.