Matt Hughes added to UFC 68 card in Columbus Ohio

Early rumor and the hope of many is that his opponent will be Diego Sanchez. I'm about to tell you why that has bad idea written all over it.

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It is a lose-lose situation for UFC that's why.

If Matt Hughes were to lose to Diego Sanchez you end up losing the intrigue of a Hughes/GSP rematch even if you do get the intrigue of a Sanchez/GSP fight. The fact is that the former right now is worth more money than the latter because of the fact it would be a third bout between the 2 not 2 guys meeting for the first time.
The reason the intrigue is lost is because now its less special that GSP defeated Hughes since another man would've done the same thing.

As for if Diego loses, yes you protect the Hughes/GSP rematch but you do so while sacrificing the momentum of Diego Sanchez. Yeah, perhaps he can recover but you don't know how long that can take.

I say you don't match Diego up with either Hughes or GSP until after they've had their rematch. The 170 pound Welterweight division is in my mind the deepest division in UFC. So as to the question of what to do with Diego if he's not seeing either Hughes or GSP until after their rematch I'll tell you what I'd like to see.

I'd like to see another fight between Diego and Karo Parisyan. The first bout was a very close one and might've gone differently had Parisyan been ready for a longer fight. I guess you have the same problem there that you would with Diego and Hughes in that a loss to Parisyan would hurt him but truthfully a loss to anyone would hurt him. You could protect him with a lower-level fighter but you can't protect a guy 100% just ask Jens Pulver about that one.

So it will be interesting to see how this shakes out but as I said in my mind Hughes/Sanchez is a bad idea. It eventually won't be a bad idea at all but it is now.