Lyoto Machida On Rashad Evans: "I see some flaws in his game."

[ill0giKaL]

Originally Posted by randell

If Lyoto beats Machida he deserves the shot alot more than Jackson. Plus you have the novelty of 2 undefeated fighters fighting for the title.

Anyways...

[rezpect]

Originally Posted by Iron Hand

Lyoto probably wont beat Machida, but maybe he will beat Thiago.

i lol'd

[McBengt]

The guy is so humble and unassuming, he is like Amir Sadollah without the lame jokes and being mediocre.

[crawdaddy]

Rashad Evans flaw is that he only throws hooks which are shorter punches.

why dont you try watching rashad fight

he throws everything, he does follow and finish combos with hooks alot but he throws everything except uppercuts in combination

i mean youd be right, if you werent wrong

[OaklandIsMyCity]

Originally Posted by MasterSeagal

Rashad Evans flaw is that he only throws hooks which are shorter punches. Someone with a reach advantage and good straight punches could make it problematic for Rashad. Kicks would also be a good weapon against rashad... sounds like it's tailor made for Machida huh?

Forrest had the reach advantage and was throwing kicks and at the end of the night still ended up getting whooped.

[Boxer]

Originally Posted by MasterSeagal

Rashad Evans flaw is that he only throws hooks which are shorter punches. Someone with a reach advantage and good straight punches could make it problematic for Rashad. Kicks would also be a good weapon against rashad... sounds like it's tailor made for Machida huh?

Your right, which is why Evans would need to exchange with a good defense only whilst looking for takedown ideally to get top control and go for GnP.

I love the fact that Rashad is champ, he's not my fav personallity but the fact he's my height and weight is good for my own stratagies and see how it works against the best in the world, he's a credit because 5'11 at LHW does not have the strength leverage of lets say Rampage or Chuck or the reach of alot of the taller fighters, Evans is a very smart fighter.

[sprucelees]

it would be a pretty good fight

[Johnny Drama]

Rashad Wins it

[Captain Swing]

Originally Posted by TeaTree

He beat Ortiz, one fight after Ortiz "beat"...oh I mean drew against the UFC's current light heavyweight champion. He looked damn good against Rashad and worked him, and then got worked by Machida right after that and now he's no longer any good? Whatever man. Your living in a fantasy world. Machida is ready.

Sorry I came late to the thread, but to suggest that either Tito or Rashad looked good in that fight is to provide misleading information in defense of your point. Essentially nothing of consequence happened during that fight until the end of the third. I agree that Tito won two rounds to Rashad's one round but so little happened in the fight (the second round specifically) that if Rashad had finished the takedown attempt - the one on which Tito was deducted a point for holding the fence - it would have been his round 10-9 rather than 9-9. People often forget how maddeningly disappointing this fight was.

[HatchetHarry]

Machida should be worrying about Thiago Silva who is going to beat him anyways.

LMAO at Machida even thinking he has a chance against the #1 P4P fighter in the world Sugar Rashad Evans