text: well they both have similar styles in that they are wrestlers that avoid submissions and often times use submissions of their own, but the intent is more so to pummel the opponent rather than look for a submission. although both of them are very capable of submitting: as hughes has won via submission almost 50% of the time. gsp hasnt fought as much as matt, but hes won a good portion  of his fights via submission. but both are primarily "ground and pounders", taking their opponents to the ground and using the fence to deliver elbows. from all the fights ive seen from both fighters, you can say that gsp is a mirror image of hughes. gsp is a bit more explosive and has much better striking. hughes builds his dominance around strength and experience while gsp does it with strength and youth. \nand if you want to compare further, you can do fighters that they share. they both fought bj penn, frank trigg, adn sean sherk. bj penn beat hughes the first time and gsp barely survived bj winning a decision. matt hughes beat frank trigg twice... pretty much tooled him the first time but the second one was one of the greatest comebacks ever...gsp raped trigg. sher vs hughes was a battle and sherk actually took 2 rounds from hughes in a 5 round fight... gsp raped sherk in round 1.... but keep in mind hughes beat gsp