Matt Serra vs. Chris Lytle Rematch Set for UFC 119
A rematch between former welterweight champ Matt Serra and fellow 170-pound veteran Chris Lytle will take place on the pay-per-view main card of UFC 119 on September 25 in Indianapolis, MMAjunkie reports.
In their first meeting in November 2006, Serra earned a split decision over Lytle to win The Ultimate Fighter 4′s welterweight tournament.
Following back-to-back losses to Georges St-Pierre and Matt Hughes, Serra (11-6) rebounded with a first-round knockout of Frank Trigg at UFC 109 in February.
Lytle (29-17-2) scored a second-round submission of Matt Brown at UFC 116 on July 3 for his third-straight win after earning fight night bonuses over Kevin Burns and Brian Foster.
The UFC 119 fight card is headlined by a rematch between former heavyweight title-holders Frank Mir and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, and also features Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. Ryan Bader.
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Nice match up! both have some big punches see Serra winning though.
actually i honestly think that lytle doesnt hit as hard as people think! the man has like 50 fights and only 4 are ko\tko. one of those tko ‘s is actually from a triangle choke. he actually almost always finishes with a sub. 19 of his wins. i think if he ouldnt stop burns or foster, he will have even harder time trying to stop serra. he would have to catch a punch just right. and serra would have to be really really hurt for anyone in the ww div to sub him!!
still a weak ppv imo. i know a few of you disagree but seriously what fight that is announced has any importance other than bader vs lil nog. mir should have stuck with the plan and dropped weight.
Assuming you’re even right about these fights not being important (you’re not), why is that such a big deal? Regardless of that they’re still good match-ups that undoubtedly interest people who enjoy MMA.
IMO the cards that are allways suppose to suck end up being incredible.
108 for example was fantastick even though the main event was only average, and 115 rely delivered.
Seriously, if you guys are finding it so hard to be entertained by these cards why don’t you wait around for the next Boxing PPV (whenever the heck that is) and see how much more you like their fight cards!!
I think people were saying 116 had a weak undercard, which turned out to be the most exciting set of fights I’ve had the pleasure of watching. I think we need to start trusting in Joe Silva….
Going with my main WW Serra to win buy KO/TKO in the first then few more wins before hes wearing gold once again
…that’s a joke, right?
I like this guy. Finally, another Serra fan!
Let’s go Serra! Let’s go Serra! Serra will win!
i heard of you but i never thought i’d actually meet you, ladies and gentlemen this is matt serra’s fan!
Holy hell….petterson just made me LOL. The END IS NIGH! REPENT! REPENT!
Since a title shot isnt on the line Im expecting this one to a be a bit more exciting then their first collision, and by collision I mean like when you try to clap underwater. Man that fight sucked.
This time around it should be some serious fireworks as both guys have showed consistent intentions to throw bombs. Im giving Lytle the edge if it hits the canvas though.
Great match-making here IMO.
Definitely…
@carls not quite sure I can agree with Lytle having any edge on the ground. He’s improved a lot there but Serra’s black belt is seriously legit.
I’m not sure I see this fight being much different than the first unless Lytle seriously improves his clinch grappling abilities and finds an answer for the stomps.
Great match-making indeed. I was thinking they’d hand him some mid-tier WW for Lytle’s homecoming, but dang, Serra’s still no joke.
This is a great fight.. I think Lytle has a chance to KO Serra but i like both these guys….
What does it take for Serra to get any respect around here? The guys wins TUF 4, beats GSP, only to lose to GSP (which every other mortal does!), he loses a CLOSE decision to Matt Hughes, that I STILL believe he won, then whoops up on Twinkle Toes, a former title contender. Lytle beats Matt Brown, Kevin Burns and Brian Foster, and I’m hearing that Lytle is going going to KO Serra. Man…talk about zero respect.
Lytle still looked good no matter what the opponent. I hope Serra wins with style.
@ GarRule – when it comes to fighters getting no respect “around here”, consider that Serra goes on the list behind Frank Mir, Jon Fitch, and Rich Franklin.
Like Serra, both Franklin and Mir have held gold, both hold wins over former or current champions and/or former or current title contenders, and both are constantly picked to get killed in the cage by the majority of the frenZied, even though they have posted winning records in the last 2 1/2 years against solid competition.
In Fitch’s case, he hasn’t been beaten by ANYONE other than GSP since December…of 2002.
How much sympathy do you think Serra gets from Fitch?
;-)
While on the topic of Jon Fitch, I think he should fight Koscheck to determine the number one contender before anyone gets The Greatness. Dana needs to stop allowing these guys to avoid fighting eachother just because they are “friends”.
There are no friends in the Octagon!! You mean to tell me we’re never gonna see the top 2 contenders battle it out to see which one is truly the #1 contender…just because they train together?? Same goes for Machida and Anderson if Anderson moves up to LHW, this is B.S. at it’s worst!!
If they don’t want to fight each other maybe one of them should consider another sport!
too late… Dana already has GSP v Kos…
@justiceb. – a lot of us have discussed this at length both here on the main page and over at the forum.
I honestly don’t know how Dana is going to handle this “same camp” thing.
Guys that train together for the most part don’t want to fight each other.
Factor in that Fitch, Koscheck, and Mike Swick are as thick as thieves, and all fight at 170, and I don’t see a clear way out of it.
Maybe Dana says that he’s only promoting fighters that will agree to fight their training partners if necessary?
Maybe Dana uses some other method by which to break the “camp system”?
I mean Greg Jackson has so many guys training both in New Mexico and in Colorado, I don’t see how the “same camp” thing can possibly work as the sport and the UFC grow.
I think the BlackHouse guys have also said you’re not going to be seeing any Machida-LittleNog or Junior Dos Santos-BigNog scraps anytime soon.
I am curious if Mark Munoz would accept a 185 title shot if it were offered and Anderson Silva still held the title, but MM is still a win or two away at best.
Xtreme Couture also has a lot of guys running thru their doors, but so far they’ve made it work with guys like Tyson Griffin and Evan Dunham squaring off, and eventually one of those rising 155ers is going to run smack into Gray Maynard.
Or someday Johny Hendricks is going to need to get past Martin Kampmann in order to catch his GSP beating.
And its not completely unbelievable that Akiyama might someday get an opportunity to face Vitor Belfort.
From what I understand Wand’s new LV gym is attracting a lot of talent, so they’ll someday have to deal with this issue too, just like American Top Team and Team Quest do.
Ultimately there isn’t a lot Joe Silva or DW can do to make 2 guys fight each other, especially if one guy says he’ll move to another weightclass to avoid fighting a freind and teammate, like AKA’s Fitch has said..
Sure they can offer incentives, call people into their office/s, Twitter themselves silly pleading their case to the wider MMA fanbase, but at the end of the day if 2 guys who train together and/or maybe share a house together and/or carpool to the gym [remember, a lot of fighters are dirt poor until they make it big and form a bond in poverty] don’t want to step in, they aren’t stepping in.
And in the Jon Fitch example, he wouldn’t find another sport. He’d try another weightclass, and if Dana wasn’t cool with that and fired him in a rage, he’d simply go down the street in San Jose where both American Kickboxing Academy and Strikeforce are based out of, sign a SF contract, and grind out a 25 minute decison over Nick Diaz for his SF 170 title.
And I know, all of the 209ers “reppin’” will say that wouldn’t happen, but trust me, I know this sport, Diaz would be wondering 6 hours after the fight was over how the He11 he could train with Cesar Gracie and yet somehow never be able to get off the mat…
i actually like both of these guys. i hope it is a war and see this fight going to decision since these guys will be hard to put away. This and the sean sher/ecan dunham will compete for fight of the night
sean sherk/erik dunham sorry wasn’t watching my spelling
Ya Sean Sherk and Ethan Dunham should be great…
Agreed. Ethel Dunham should be ready for this fight.
All do respect to the terra but I don’t think lights out let his hands go in the first fight. Plus they were both friends I like both fighters, but Lytle is going to win. He has way better stand up (technically) and is no sloach on the ground. Should be a great night of fights.
I hate serra and love lytle… i hope lytle wins
@KSEcALAMITY- do u mean evan dunham not erik?
i believe he does and i also believe serra and lytle will be a great fight and im pulling for lytle. i also think dunham will beat sherk easily sherk is done and he is to small for dunham. i think this fight will be very similar to the dunham and tyson griffin fight and dunham will use his size to his advantage
hey yall, new to the frenzy but been a long time reader! anyhow,i personally like chris better but i think Serra by KO in the second
Welcome aboard. Glad you picked the Terror!!!!! (or the Terra)
Terra as in ground? Or Terra as in Jersey for fear?
Welcome, longtime reader/first time poster!
;-)
I’m not excited about this fight at all. If their first match would have even been slightly entertaining then maybe a rematch would be nice to watch. Both guys have a great chin, striking has GOT to go to lytle while grappling to Serra, but I don’t see this as a blockbuster fight in the making at all. Both Lytle and Serra are over-hand right haymakers, but other than that they haven’t really looked great in striking in a while. Matt Brown is a good fighter, but he’s far from a striking king and Lytle was having some troubles with him. Serra has fought washed up fighters now for a while (Hughes, Triggs, Carter) and his last fight with Lytle was boring. I just don’t see fan’s getting too excited about seeing a reply of 15 minutes of foot stomping. Hope I’m wrong.
i have to say that you are wrong, i dont know if the fight will be better then the first! but considering where the fight is. i think the fans will be almost like this is another main event. i dont think you know how much those fans will be going wild for lytle. that being said you have to give it to serra. first he goes to canada to fight gsp, when he was the champ and it should of been closer to serra imo as the champ. now he going to fight another person he has already beat, someone who can only be stopped by cuts. and he is fighting them in their home. seems like he can be cocky but it also seems as if he is a team player for the ufc. i also thought the hughes fight was real close, but it could of gone either way- it was no bisbing vs hammil or how that one judge that somehow gave tyson griffin 2 rounds in that last fight.
I have no doubt that the hometown crowd will like to see Lytle in action, but almost ANY opponent would be better to have him face over Serra. Having him face someone like Swick, Jonathan Goulet, or someone else who would be willing to stand and bang with him would be a better crowd pleaser. Serra and Lytle 1 was boring, why should we expect a rematch to be any better?
The Serra/Hughes fight was close, but all that does is concrete how both those fighters are passed their prime for the sport. Hughes got handled by GSP and Alves. Since then he has really only fought fighters who have been in the sport for a long time, like Serra and Gracie. I have no doubt that a Kimo/Shamrock rematch would probably be a close fight too, but that doesn’t mean that they are still top fighters, it simply means two washed up fighters can still be equally skilled.
My hopes are that Lytle KO’s Serra into retirement, but I kinda doubt it.
i get what you are saying. and i dont care about this matchup myself. but i dont really view alves as better then hughes, and truthfully inot sure he would beat serra every time. im sorry but neither of these guys look like shamrock or a coleman yet. just imo
glassman, how do you not view Alves as better than Hughes when he clearly beat him when the two fought?
how is kos over paulo thiago, and thiago alves on sites that rank top 10. how is werdum over jds on most of those lists. first off 44-7 is way better then 16-6. i dont think alves will ever beat gsp. hughes has wins over him and penn. to me it looked as if hughes was really slow that night. and he almost never telegraphs his takedowns he got lazy about it after that first round. i honestly think that a rematch could go either way. but i do think that hughes could beat alot more people then alves could. most of alves losses are people who arent even that good. derrick noble, spencer fisher, tibeu! if he beats fitch and doesnt get stopped again, then i will start to believe the hype. im sorry i just believe both him and kos are way overrated. i have seen nothing to say hughes doesnt have stamina left. like i said before he beats fitch and i will change my tune!!
Hughes always has telegraphed his takedowns, it’s just that he’s so powerful it’s never mattered. Now that he’s older and a bit less explosive he can’t get away with the same style unless he’s fighting guys who are also in the twilight of their careers.
Hughes in his prime versus Alves? I’d agree with you, Hughes is better. Current Hughes versus Alves, not going to agree with you there. You brought up Alves’ losses to people you said were “not even that good” but you failed to point out that all of those were five or more years ago, and he’s avenged the loss to Noble. Plus, the Tibau fight was Alves’ first pro fight and he loss by submission when he was still just a striker. If you look at the, “what have you done for me lately?” model, which is what most rankings systems are based on Alves is 8-2 since 2006 including wins over Kos, Hughes and Parisyan, while Hughes is only 5-3 in the same time frame and sharing some common opponents.
Another BORING FIGHT.
Who gives a **** about Serra?See below -BSBiz
I’m sure his family does. And his mother. And his dog (or other pet). And GarRule. In the future, please no fighter bashing.
@ Tood D
You asked!
Who cares about the last guy to beat GSP…you make me laugh
precautionary editing reasons Chris L.
@dbiz – “precautionary editing reasons”
No lie, I laughed so hard I spit Fresca all over my laptop when I read that.
Jesus, dbiz, between the two of us we’ve turned the mods, one of which is your mom’s favorite child, into orderlies at an MMA-themed mental hospital…
;)
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Serra is undercredited for sure…. I’m a huge GSP fan and beating him gives you some credit in my books.
I train at a martial arts school here in Ottawa affiliated with a Gracie, who also happens to have GSP, Ricardo Almedia, Big Country, and ofc Serra as his students. Our students have competed against Serra’s; he’s apparently a very nice guy (and is mighty funny too).
War Serra!