Memo to Matt Hughes: Wake Up and Smell What's Cooking

My gosh! I hate to get on Matt Hughes again so soon!

Whatever can that country boy be thinking?

I just read an interview with Matt where he stated he would like to have a rematch with Thiago Alves, after he beats Matt Serra in his next fight, of course.

It pains me to see the farmboy's brain striving so hard to get out of second gear. Of course it's possible he missed second and that is why his gears are grinding.

While he is claiming to be taking his upcoming fight with Matt Serra seriously by "not looking ahead," obviously, once again he is failing to walk the walk by doing just that.

Talking about a rematch with Thiago, because he is so certain he will beat Serra, is an insult to both the "Terra" and also to MMA fans in general.

He is not only discounting Serra, but like the more recently defeated BJ Penn, he is not dealing very well with the reality of his situation.

Maybe as he often tells his wife when he forgets something he has promised her not to forget and says in explanation, "you know I have taken a few shots to the head," as his excuse, he is not actually kidding.

He stated that, "had his left knee not given out in the fight with Alves," which I feel is totally erroneous, and infers then that he would not have lost the fight.

As I saw it, Matt had telegraphed his intention to shoot so broadly that he practically sent an invitation to Thiago to knee him in the chin and knock him out.

It appeared to me that the ACL damage occured to his knee after he was out and as his whole body fell on his leg while it was in an unusually awkward position and this caused the damage to his knee, but not the loss of the fight.

Aside from Hughes' strange interpretation of the facts, he is now saying that he would welcome a rematch with Alves and St. Pierre as well, being that "he wasn't satisfied with how either of those matches ended."

Since he lost each of these two matches in rather spectacular and humiliating circumstances, I am not at all surprised for his dissatisfaction.

Believing that a rematch with either fighter would end any differently is what has me puzzled.

Perhaps pretend fighting with Brock Lesnar and his friends at his new gym has given Matt a false sense of security that will make it even easier for Matt Serra to beat him than it would be if he were thinking more clearly.

To me these recent statements would be a danger signal to Matt's wife and Dana White as well that Matt, even more than Chuck Liddell, is ready for retirement.

He has had more than his fair share of hits to his old farmboy noggin.