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Royce has very little chance in this fight. Matt is no stranger to the ground. He can submit you at any time. Royce has a better chance at winning the lottery than he does of beating Matt. Both have mediocre standup with Matt getting the better of him in strength, speed, and Octagon experience. This is not the old UFC that Royce played in.

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Royce has very little chance in this fight. Matt is no stranger to the ground. He can submit you at any time. Royce has a better chance at winning the lottery than he does of beating Matt. Both have mediocre standup with Matt getting the better of him in strength, speed, and Octagon experience. This is not the old UFC that Royce played in.

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Yeah...this match is more for ratings than it is for anything else. It's kind of one of those matches that they've got to give guys like Matt so they'll be considered as one of the best of the best ever. It perpetuates the star power for the newer stars if they can send off the older stars with a good fight...see Coture/Liddell 3. Like I said, I'd like to see Royce pull this off, but I think Matt ends up winning it on physical prowess alone because he's just as technically sound as Royce.

"This is not the old UFC that Royce played in..."

Exactly, Royce fought a group of hand-picked (by his brother Rorion) oponents.

Since those days Royce is what? 2-4-1 in Japan? I'm not sure of the numbers but he has a losing record against real fighters in Japan and one of his wins was against poor Takada and was likely a work, as are most of Takada's fights.

Yeah and the overweight guy, for some reason I can't remember his name.

Akebono was the guy, and Chad Rowen was the other. He hasn't fought any competition and won recently.

Royce lost to Akebono? WOW. I had no idea about that. If Akebono can handle Royce then he's got no prayer except for getting lucky with a submission against Hughes.

No those two guys I listed were the only other guys that Royce has beat in recent years.

Okay--sorry I misunderstood. Either way, I think Royce has an outside shot, but that's it...it's an outside shot. Hughes would have to fall asleep majorly and Royce would have to get lucky.

Chad Rowan and Akebono are the same person. Chad Rowan is his real name.

I went over to Sherdog and found that Royce is 2-1-2 since his UFC days. He has beaten two jokes, Rowan and Takada and has drawn with Yosida the Olympic Judo player who had no MMA experience and of course got his backside completely handed to him by Sakuraba the only real fighter with experience that he has faced.