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

[Will Jacobs]

This would be an excellent battle of overly timid technical strikers. And it will probably happen this year.

[ovechkin8tor]

I just thought of a cool stat. If Machida beats Silva and Evans, that would be 7 undefeated streaks ended by Machida.

(Stephan Bonnar, Rich Franklin, Michael McDonald, Sam Greco, David Heath, Thiago Silva, Rashad Evans)

I wonder if there's a record for that. If I had to guess, I would say Travis Fulton holds the record for beating the most # of undefeated fighters.

[inetwarrior]

machida is right but he doenst deserve a titleshot yet. Who has he beat??? Even when he beats thiago he still hasnt fought a great fighter.. he has to win one more after that against elite competition. to the guys who say he deserves the titleshot more than rampage who lost his title because of biased judges and won his next fight against an top5 fighter in Wanderlei by knocking him the hell out in the first. I indeed think he should have gotten the instant rematch against forrest "paperchamp" griffin.

[funkjunky]

when they touch glove s he gonna pinch rashads nipples and take his power

[TeaTree**]

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.

I hadn't thought about that. That's a very good point.

[fieldy_snutts]

Originally Posted by randell

If Lyoto beats Machida .

lolwut?!

[TeaTree**]

Originally Posted by inetwarrior

machida is right but he doenst deserve a titleshot yet. Who has he beat??? Even when he beats thiago he still hasnt fought a great fighter.. he has to win one more after that against elite competition. to the guys who say he deserves the titleshot more than rampage who lost his title because of biased judges and won his next fight against an top5 fighter in Wanderlei by knocking him the hell out in the first. I indeed think he should have gotten the instant rematch against forrest "paperchamp" griffin.

So Rich Franklin, BJ Penn and Tito Ortiz aren't great fighters? What planet are you from?

[Squarechoke]

Originally Posted by inetwarrior

machida is right but he doenst deserve a titleshot yet. Who has he beat??? Even when he beats thiago he still hasnt fought a great fighter.. he has to win one more after that against elite competition. to the guys who say he deserves the titleshot more than rampage who lost his title because of biased judges and won his next fight against an top5 fighter in Wanderlei by knocking him the hell out in the first. I indeed think he should have gotten the instant rematch against forrest "paperchamp" griffin.

Biased judges had nothing to do with Rampage losing since he would have lost as long as the judges knew the rules. That said I agree that Rampage has a better claim to the title shot since he was the champ and has beaten a higher ranked opponent than Machida in their last respective fights.

I hope Machida will be second in line though and I would certainly not ask "who has he beat" in a general matter since he has fought tough opponents.

[inetwarrior]

Originally Posted by TeaTree

So Rich Franklin, BJ Penn and Tito Ortiz aren't great fighters? What planet are you from?

oh please dont come up with bj penn he is a 155 pounder.. every LHW would whoop that fat ass. Tito Ortiz is far from great and not top10 and even if you think bj penn and franklin are great 205 pound fighters those fights are more than 3 years ago.. He hasnt beat a top5 or close to top5 LHW.

[Shoppe]

Originally Posted by inetwarrior

oh please dont come up with bj penn he is a 155 pounder.. every LHW would whoop that fat ass. Tito Ortiz is far from great and not top10 and even if you think bj penn and franklin are great 205 pound fighters those fights are more than 3 years ago.. He hasnt beat a top5 or close to top5 LHW.

Tito who beat the former champ and had a draw against the current champ isn't top ten?