Lyoto Machida is a unique across the board. He's the only really successful mixed martial artist coming from a karate background who still uses much of his karate base. His style is incredibly elusive. It almost seems like other fighters are a little afraid of the guy. There's a mystique about him.
Of course it may also be because he was one of the only fighters who employs the strange practice of drinking his own urine:
"Every morning he wakes up and drinks his first urine of the day," said Ed Soares with a smiling Machida to the side. "It's urine therapy, it's a therapy that's a Japanese thing."
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