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Originally Posted by TN94z  Not a big difference. It started from the first minute. They hardly said anything about any shots that Machida was landing. It was definitely biased in Shogun's favor.
Shogun would throw a kick that didn't do much while Machida would throw a counter and hit Shogun solid, but they would never say a word about the counter....only the kick. |
They did mention Machida's counters several times. And the reason why they talked about Shogun constantly landing strikes was... because he was constantly landing strikes. People can argue all they want, but you look at the statistics for the fight, Shogun clearly landed more. If you look at how each fighter looked at the end of the fight, Machida was clearly more fucked up. I haven't seen any reasonable arguments supporting Machida winning the fight. Cecil Peoples going on an elitist rant saying fans don't understand the sport, is just retarded. He should realize that if seeing a guy get fucked up in a fight is different then him losing the fight, then something is seriously wrong with how judges make their decisions.
This wasn't Belcher/Akiyama, where Belcher appeared to do more damage while Akiyama landed more strikes. This isn't Bisping/Hamill where Bisping was the busier fighter, who landed a lot of kicks and threw more punches, while Hamill scored more takedowns. Shogun was the aggressor for basically the entire fight; Machida looked weary and predictable. In the last 2 rounds, Machida was unable to mount any effective offense because of the damage he suffered in the first 3. Every single round, Shogun out landed Machida, and landed incredibly hard low strikes. Machida landed a few straight lefts, but Shogun landed just as many hard hooks. Even in the flurries where Machida is normally dominant, Shogun covered up and countered perfectly, forcing Machida to clinch or back up. In the clinch, where Machida normally knees the shit out of his opponents, Shogun landed more knees. Machida was almost completely nullified in the fight, the only thing Shogun did wrong was not pick up the pace in the later rounds when Machida looked completely beat. Total robbery imo.