Shogun beat Lyoto...
He fought in retreat, making Lyoto pursue him- taking the Dragon out of his comfort zone...
Countered well with leg kicks, limiting Lyotos movement....
Its was beautiful!
A crying shame the judges refused to recognise this!
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Shogun beat Lyoto...
He fought in retreat, making Lyoto pursue him- taking the Dragon out of his comfort zone...
Countered well with leg kicks, limiting Lyotos movement....
Its was beautiful!
A crying shame the judges refused to recognise this!
The fight was difficult to judge. Lyoto was hitting Shogun in the face and shogun was hitting Lyoto with kicks in the body and legs. The commentators were focusing on Shogun's kicks but not on the way Lyoto was hitting Shogun in the face. Shogun was almost KOed many times (2 to 3 times,IMO).
I give the fight to Lyoto 3-2 because Shogun was not convincing enough, IMO.:cool:
Machida isn't prepared for someone to start attacking his body apparently. He is all for head movement but when someone starts kicking those legs and the body, stuff you can't move, especially someone that hits as hard as Shogun, he's in trouble. Love it. Because most people that have explosive power go for the chin only, So its refreshing to see someone actually take it to all parts of the body.
That's how I saw it too; Shogun pressed the fight, landed the cleaner shots and counter-attacked beautifully, I think he deserves the fight too and I am a bit surprised that Machida, no matter how of a good guy and great fighter he is, won that one 3-2. Hopefully there will be a rematch.
I haven't seen it yet, but have been told that it is much closer when watched on Mute without Joe Rogan's commentary :-\
joe rogan was clearly hugging shoguns balls lyoto threw and landed a flurry then shogun landed only one punch and joe was like "shogun is beating lyoto!"
shogun almost got kod too, its hard to see in MMA but even a jab can buckle a fighters knees. remember they are using 4 oz gloves with very little padidng.
but i still think shogun edged lyoto a bit.
World of Combat » Mixed Martial Arts ( MMA ) News Training and Videos the fight is online over there but Rustube seems have problems at the moment, should work fine later.
#1 Machida usually fights in retreat
#2 He used the kicks well but never followed up, never pressed his advantage
Machida obviously was thrown off by Rua's gameplan which was different than Rua's usual style.
I think all this coupled with Lyoto seemingly not having his "A game" that night will get blown out of proportion and in a rematch Lyoto will mess up Rua.
the fight wasn't difficult to judge, any person giving Lyoto the match or even the draw should seriously learn how to score fights.
Besides thaht, even Dana thought it was all Shogun way, it was so obvious.
Lyoto has no solutions against Shogun...who really fought a perfect fight.
simply a robbery, I can't wait the rematch