Read Our Site, Or This UFC Guy Will Pummel You

Those of you kids who like the Ultimate Fighting Championships — and we will confess a fascination ourselves — are surely familiar with Matt Hughes. Not only is he a nine-time UFC welterweight champion, he's also author of the New York Times bestselling autobiography Made In America (his co-author is our friend Michael Malice), but he's also from Hillsboro, Illinois, which is 85 miles from Mattoon. (In Central Illinois, this is pretty much right next door.) And he's a fan of Deadspin. More »