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Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho
Talking strictly performance, Machida doesn't deserve to be champion... I'd be the happiest motherfucker in the world if he redeemed himself in the rematch... I LOVE Machida, but his performance against Rua was quite unimpressive.
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Ok I went back and watched the entire fight yesterday after reading this post. I did NOT see it live which I hate to admit but I didn't. I was busy with other stuff and didn't want to pay the $$ to just record it on the DVR.
I agree that his performance was less than I would expect from him especially seeing how devastating he was in his previous two fights when he completely destroyed Thiago Silva and Rashad Evans to win the belt.
The fight really could have gone either way or even been scored a draw imho. Either fighter could have won by a point.
Problem is if you want to take the belt you have to flat out beat the champ and this one was close.
My personal scoring of this fight says Shogun should have won by 1 point but a couple of the rounds were almost too close to call.
The leg kicks by Rua to the body of Machida were awesome but he got tagged several times himself.
I'm looking forward to the rematch...big time.