Matt Serra

In late 2007, Georges St. Pierre was preparing for the Olympic trials in hopes of making the Canadian wrestling team when he got a call from the UFC asking him to take an injured Matt Serra ’s place against Matt Hughes . By accepting the fight, he put his dream of competing in the Olympics on hold.

They say you aren't a true champion until you successfully defend your belt. Just ask former titleholders Matt Serra, Vitor Belfort, Forrest Griffin and most recently Rashad Evans -- all of whom came up short their first time around.

If you're wondering why Matt Serra hasn't been booked to fight since his UFC 98 clash against rival Matt Hughes in May, it's not because he's been injured or taking the loss too hard. No, Serra has simply been busy working on his new 8,300 square foot MMA gym that will be opening soon.

Even if he beats Fedor it doesn't mean he's a better fighter. Matt Serra beat GSP once upon a time... I'm basically saying that Carwin and Rogers would both ...

Artuji - Pop Culture News and Internet Buzz Should Tuchscherer prevail, the upset would be close to the magnitude of Matt Serra shocking the world with his TKO victory over Georges St. Pierre. ... UAE is ready to take the stage in ultimate fightingNational all 60 news articles »

Cage Radio presented by Wisconsin Combat Sports will return this Sunday on The Big 1070 AM; former UFC welterweight champion Matt "The Terror" Serra has ...

A few years ago, people thought Georges St. Pierre was invincible. Instead, he was taken out in quick fashion by Matt Serra. The entire thing that fight ...

“There has not been discussion on [a rematch between former UFC welterweight champions Matt Hughes (41-7) and "Terror” Matt Serra (9-6)]. ... Matt Hughes not retired wants to fight againExaminer.com Former UFC Champ Matt Serra Unlikely To Fight Matt Brown, Despite ...Fighters.com

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship welterweight titleholder Matt Serra wants a rematch with Matt Hughes and fights against opponents with names cemented in the industry.

By E. Spencer Kyte(spencerkyte@hotmail.com) By E. Spencer Kyte (espencerkyte@mmaratings.net) When Matt Serra dropped Georges St-Pierre to capture the UFC Welterweight title, very few people in the MMA community would have thrown the veteran fighter into their Pound-for-Pound discussions or considered him the best welterweig...

 MN Notable fighters who can list a victory over Lytle as one of their achievements include Shonie Carter, Nick Diaz, Robbie Lawler, Matt Serra, Matt Hughes, Thiago Alves and Josh Koscheck. Needless to say, the best in the division can boast a victory over ...

Fourth Bout: Welterweight Division - Matt Serra (16-5) vs. Matt Hughes (43-7): Matt Serra entered the octagon to the tune of Rocky, Hughes, as always, to the tune of A Country Boy Can Survive. As expected, no tapping of the gloves at the referee ...

 MN This was the day Matt Serra did the unthinkable. Actually, he did more than the unthinkable; he did what no one imagined he could do. He stopped Georges St. Pierre in the 1st round to win the UFC Welterweight Championship. That's right, Matt Serra, ...

 CA by Paul Delos Santos (Contributor) Matt Hughes and Matt Serra finally bring an end to their rivalry when the two enter the octagon on Saturday. The obvious bad blood was seen by all on the "Ultimate Fighter" series, but even after the fight, ...

UFC 83 took place a year ago on April 19, 2008. The show, headlined by then-UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra vs. Canadian fighter Georges St. Pierre, drew 21390 fans. The event set a then-new North American MMA record previously held by UFC 68, ... UFC 97 Recap - Good Luck Chuck BetUs.com

 NY BY KATIE STRANG | caitlin.strang@newsday.com Don't invite Matt Serra and Matt Hughes to the same party. Except for the one in Las Vegas on May 23. Serra's dislike for Hughes - once a fellow coach on The Ultimate Fighter reality television show - has ...

 CA GSP has a five-fight win streak since losing to Matt Serra, while Thiago has a seven-fight win streak, both against top opponents in the welterweight division. In my humble opinion, Alves could have a better opportunity to exploit GSP's ability to take ...

By Adam Wagner Back in 2006, Karo Parisyan was on a collision course with a welterweight title shot. “The Heat” was riding a five-fight win streak, including wins over Matt Serra, Nick Diaz and Chris Lytle. He was practically a shoe-in. But first, the UFC said he’d have to get past a young up-and-coming figh...

By Matt Melbye George St. Pierre (17-2) is a Kyokushin Karate fighter from Canada with a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and is well versed in wrestling, Muay Thai, and boxing. Many call GSP the best athlete in the UFC and rank him the No. 2 pound-for-pound fighter in the world.

By MMAmania Sell — the protégé of former welterweight champion Matt Serra — made his 170-pound debut against Josh Burkman at UFC 90: “Silva vs. Cote” in October 2008, defeating “The Peoples Warrior” via unanimous decision in an exciting back-and-forth match.

By Jeremy Botter 1. Georges St. Pierre 2. Brock Lesnar 3. Anderson Silva 1. UFC 2. WEC 3. DREAM 1. UFC 91 2. DREAM 3 3. UFC 87 BEST SUBMISSION 1. Brock Lesnar 2. Chuck Liddell 3. Georges St. Pierre 1. Anderson Silva 2. Georges St. Pierre 3. Joachim Hansen BEST SUBMISSION ARTIST

By "Mr. NC-17" Georges St. Pierre lost his championship gold to a huge underdog in Matt Serra in April of 2007 at UFC 69: Shootout. Since then, Georges went to win a clear cut decision against Josh Koscheck, and a pure destruction victory over former welterweight champion and future UFC Hall of Famer Matt H...

By Jesse Holland UFC 97 will be the second PPV for Zuffa in Montreal since their debut north of the United States border with UFC 83 back in April when UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre avenged his loss to Matt Serra with a two-round demolition of the “The Terror.”

By Mike Leanza Upset: "To defeat or overthrow an opponent that is considered more formidable, as in war, politics, or sports" as defined by dictionary.com, and MMA is full of them. Although most of the time we see the better fighter win, there's always that one fight that nobody called. Take for instance, M...

By Steve Cofield Phillipe Nover may be the future of the 155 division in the UFC. Afterall, he's the guy that UFC president Dana White called "the next Anderson Silva" and reminded him of Georges St. Pierre. But on this night he just looked like another overly aggressive striker who couldn't defend the takedo...

By Jessy Morris It was a long and complicated road, but Georges St. Pierre became a UFC star and a UFC champion. Who would have thought that this kid from St. Isidore, Quebec, Canada would one day be the best MMA welterweight fighter in the world. Yes, I am glad to say that the UFC welterweight champion Georges St....

By Mike Cormack Saturday night Montreal fans got to see the Georges St. Pierre everyone expected the first time he fought Matt Serra. While new welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre put on a clinic Saturday night in front of his rabid supporters, you can also score one for the UFC and the sport of mixed mar...

By Dan Kim If the verbal sparring ahead of UFC 83 is any indication, we’re in for some really heated battles in Montreal. Less than a week from now, Canadian MMA fans will be treated to the first UFC event north of the border. Matt Serra vs. Georges St. Pierre

By gorgeousgeorge@taggradio.com (Gorgeous George) October 12, 2007 - "Joker" Guymon was in studio today and joined us as he talked about his "pics" that are soon to come out. Also stopping by was UFC welterweight champ, Matt Serra. Lastly, Wes Sims chimed in for 2 minutes and it was dumb so skip Wes. J/k Wes.

By Michael David Smith Georges St-Pierre, from Montreal, celebrates after defeating Matt Serra, from Long Island, NY, during their Ultimate Fight Championships Welterweight title fight in Montreal, Saturday April 19, 2008. St-Pierre won the match with a second round TKO. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Rya...

By Kris Karkoski For Matt Serra, the UFC should have him stay at 170lbs long enough to make the Matt Hughes fight happen, then send the guy back to lightweight where I think he belongs. While Serra would surely have his work cut out for him with the 155lb clan, he’d still travel a smoother road as a standard si...

By botizzle Should they have picked up more Canadian fighters and Made it USA Vs. Canada, just like UFC58 (Franklin Vs. Loiseau and Georges St Pierre Vs Penn)? OK, let’s cut to the chase. This is USA versus Canada. This is the very American Matt Serra versus the very (French) Canadian Georges St Pierre! Thi...

By Eddie Goldman On this edition of NO HOLDS BARRED, host Eddie Goldman begins by reviewing the mixed martial arts fight between Cung Le and Frank Shamrock held this past Saturday night, March 29, at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif. Cung Le won that fight by TKO at the end of the third round after one of his ki...

By Jon Grilz Here comes this French Canadian in a gi and a Karate Kid headband into the Octagon. He was supposed to be some kind of Canadian champ or something and he was going to come in and challenge Hughes? Sure he was undefeated, but who does he think he is. Canadian versus the prototypical American far...

By Dorothy Willis Once again I am finding myself in a very uncomfortable situation.  I barely lived through the last confrontation between Matt Serra and Georges St. Pierre last April and now on April 19. 2008 there will be a rematch to live through.  I felt it was an awful predicamont when Matt Serra ended up hav...

By MMA Junkie UFC President White confirmed that Cote will be part of the fight card during Monday’s UFC 83 press conference, which was attended by UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra and interim champ (and French-Canadian) Georges St. Pierre, who meet in the night’s main event.

By Jon Grilz Welterweights? Only time will tell on this one. With Serra out until cleared by doctors St.Pierre might have to defend his interim belt before he gets a chance to become the undisputed champ and wash away the bad after taste of the embarrassing performance he put up against Serra the first ti...

By MMA Junkie Dan Simmler (0-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC), a Serra Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu student who was featured by Newsday while trying out for “The Ultimate Fighter 7,” has apparently earned a spot on the show’s cast. Paul Bradley (5-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC)Matt Brown (7-6 MMA, 0-0 UFC) Steve Byrnes (6-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC)

By MMA Junkie The 33-year-old Kolosci was the elder statesman of “The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra” — a veteran presence among a cast of young and inexperienced fighters. A four-year fight veteran, he entered the show with an 8-4 professional record.

By MMA Junkie Serra shocked the world with a first-round TKO of St. Pierre and parlayed the victory into countless media appearances, a stint as a coach on “The Ultimate Fighter 6,” a New York-based training center now teeming with new students, months and months of publicity for a UFC 79 fight with riva...

By MMA Junkie Matt Hughes, who suffered a second-round submission loss to Georges St. Pierre at UFC 79, isn’t sure when he’ll fight next, but he’s not ruling out a potential bout with Matt Serra. “I’ve already talked to (UFC President) Dana (White) and (UFC owner) Lorenzo (Fertitta), and we’ll probably...

By The Fighting Life After the GSP-Hughes fight, I have to wonder what Matt Serra is thinking right now.  He shocked St. Pierre the first time, but does he believe he can do it again?  St. Pierre looked to me like one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world on Saturday night.  When he comes in ready and focus...

By Kris Karkoski Let me preface this by saying that I want to see the rubber match between Matt Hughes and George St. Pierre just as much as the next guy. But to be completely honest, I’d rather see the originally planned Serra vs. Hughes match like we were promised. Why do I want to see it so badly? It’s simple- the t...

By Jesse Holland Matt Serra is yucking it up with his team and calls Matt Hughes a chipmunk while squinting his eyes and pursing his lips. He also does an impression of Hughes getting tooled by Georges St. Pierre. While I thought it was a little callous (even by my standards) I guess that’s one of the spoils they r...

By UFCmania From 2004 through 2005, Karo Parisyan ripped through the UFC welterweight division, defeating Shonie Carter, Matt Sera, Nick Diaz, Chris Lytle and David Strasser. His only loss during that two-year stretch was to future (and now former) UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre.

Kenny talks about his victory over Mishima, Matt Serra, his MMA Summitt, and much more.

Fighter 4: "The Comeback" welterweight finalists Matt Serra and Chris Lytle, who fight Saturday to determine the next No. 1 contender and who they feel will win the Nov. 18 UFC welterweight title fight between champion Matt Hughes and challenger Georges St. Pierre.

By Rick Behnke You can put on a show, you can be in a show, or you can steal a show. And this week, before the big show - the semi-final bout - we saw glimpses of all of these aspects of drama in what was one of the better episodes this season.This week featured the long-awaited rematch between Matt Serra and Shoni...

By Rick Behnke The old saying "losing builds character, winning builds confidence" showed up on this week's episode the moment Matt Hughes walked in the training center door. He is confident. He is the champion. He is a winner. He is the "man."His walk shows it. His talk shows it. Matt Hughes walks the talk, and G...

By Rick Behnke Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a physical game, but it's the psychological or mental side of the game that can make all the difference in the success a fighter has in the Octagon.Episode three featured various aspects of the mental gamesmanship going on in the Ultimate Fighter household. Whet...