Quote Originally Posted by Beanflicker View Post
Can't say I'm shocked by the result. I don't know why Mousasi abandoned his leg kicking after the second round. He really hurt Machida with a lead leg kick (enough to make Machida switch legs and retreat awkwardly) which I thought would have been a momentum changer, but then he just went back to plodding forward with punches.
Mousasi is a strange one but at 28 he's young and still got plenty of time to put it all together. He does seem disinterested and passionless at time. I actually had it 3-2 machida, mousasi just had to turn it up a notch and he could have got it but he seemed content. You are right he took the second round pretty clearly mostly on those leg kicks and then went back to just jabbing. Either way no shame in loosing to machida and not like he got embarassed