Congratulations Shogun.

Machida, you letting your karate brothers down man...

this time, i think Shogun (who is a shoot fighter) will be more aggressive once he lands the counter punch or kick and try to keep the pressure on Machida.

i think that Machida's best strategy is to take the fight to the ground (machida is a BJJ blackbelt) and submit or ground & pound Shogun, this takes away Shogun's biggest strength which is his rear leg roundhouse kick.

this will make for an ugly fight for Machida, but i think it's his best strategy against a fast counter attacker like Shogun.

I know, you're right.  I just thought the announcers were too pro-Shogun in UFC 104.

Shogun couldn't bring Machida down.  I guess this is one of those 10% of the fights that doesn't go to the ground.

I thought Shogun had limited technique and couldn't land his devastating kicks.  Machida showed he could face him left and right handed.  If you study Machida's body and muscles you see that he is relaxed and not tense.  Shogun's arm extension led to him being tight and tired (you can tell by his shaking out his arms in the last round).  Though Shogun was in better condition I felt he wasted too much energy, could not deliver the combinations and was not able to engage confidently.  The strikes he landed were wild and lucky - definitely not well delivered or timed right.

Both are well trained and skilled.  But I like Machida.  But yes, Shogun may do better this time around.

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His hard core karate training, accuracy and discipline added to his BJJ mat skills.  UFC 104 showed Machida's experienced skill level that Shogun just kept missing his strikes by inches and was wasting energy.  Add to that Shogun's failure to stop so many front kicks allowing them to land with force without even an attempt to protect, block or capture the leg.  Machida schooled him and will do so again.

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I liked Kimbo back when he was fist fighting on the street. They were some really good clips to watch. Some of the guys he fought seemed less skilled than me, and, given my size, I would have fought him on the street back then that style and maybe done alright. But it's a shame doing that kind of thing does not attract enough money for him...

The thing is, on the street, he was pretty much a Boxer. So, wanting to go into sport, why did he choose MMA? Because he would have done poorly in professional Boxing and not made any splash. Same with K-1 fighting; he would have been owned. It's a shame, but he had to go into the least specialist sport because that's where the finer points are much less challenged, and also the money, of course; they could sell him... the UFC, clearly, is where he could go directly to the top (that doesn't say a lot about the sport).

Oh well. My thoughts. I just really dislike the UFC and it's propaganda and arrogant fighters.

The first round was not very exciting as both stayed defensiv and neither of them wanted to make the first serious attack.

But Kimbo wasn´t bad on the ground and overall I think it was fair that Kimbo won by desicion...

but no matter what he says or tries to convince the public, Kimbo did horrible, and he's very lucky that Roy Nelson doesn't have a vicious "ground and pound". Seriously, Kimbo would get hurt bad trying to compete against the elite UFC fighters.

We'll just have to wait and see what happens...

He has a strong body and it will be hard to knock him out while he is standing.

If he can adjust to the ground fighting I can´t see why he shouldn´t do well.