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***OFFICIAL*** Lyoto Machida vs. Dan Henderson Thread

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#1 ·
Light Heavyweight bout: 205 pounds

 
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#145 ·
Easy 29-28 Machida. Not a great fight by any means though. Lol everyone having a go Machida though. What did Dan do? Not Machida's fault Dan is too slow and one dimensional. Relies way too much on his right hand and doesnt bother with anything else except a leg kick.

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#148 ·
Great fight ! I loved it. That's what you a technical striking display by machida ! What did dan do in that right ? Nothing he landed NOTHING! Every time he came in Kyoto ,and 2 hards and avoided all dans!

I was on the edge of my seat for the whole fight . I guess we are back to the if you can't appreciate the skill of lyoto then please don't watch him and go watch some brawlers.
 
#150 ·
As usual, where others seem to see boringness and nothing happening, I see great tactical striking and beautiful technique.

Several knees clean to the gut, plenty of counter strikes right to the chops ( masked by the fact that Hendo could eat them ), two front kicks that landed, and several body kicks that all landed home.

Hendo is clearly a man of iron, but he was regularly caught with a variety of strikes all throughout. Maybe wasn't as noticeable since he was able to run through a lot of them.

Who's face was messed up though, and who was it that had no real answer to a fighter who was connecting with him at a decent regularity ?

At most, Dan landed 2-3 decent leg strikes, and next to no head shots at all.
 
#151 ·
Very unimpressive fight, with lots of dumbass shit from both fighters, especially Hendo. The leg kicks were connecting every time...so let's stop doing them and just try to setup that right hand. Oh yeah, and be sure to let Machida circle away from the fence when you spent the last 45 seconds getting him there, just so you can spend the next minute doing it all over again. The stupid, it hurts. As for Machida, body kicks you dumbass, throw more of them because they land every time and it kills Hendo's cardio. And do not fight as a righty since that's just giving Hendo an easier time to land his right hand. And of course Hendo never saw that, every time Machida went to an orthodox stance he should've gone leg kick right hand, but he never did.

Goddamnit that fight was frustrating to watch. So many basic mistakes and missed opportunities.
 
#161 ·
People seriously need to watch his fights before he won the title he used to get so much hate until he started knocking people out but the results speak for themselves. He won like he always did.


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#170 ·
The two most one dimensional strikers hes face, Hendo and Rampage, hes done relatively nothing. Slow, plodding, predictable strikers, albeit successful and extremely dangerous ones, are supposed to be what Lyoto should annihilate with ease. He lost to Rampage and did absolutely nothing impressive against Hendo, while Hendo actually tried to fight.

Lyoto's speed is ridiculous though.
 
#166 ·
Snoozefest.

Machida is one of the few people who can make me yawn during a Henderson fight. Hendo moved forward the whole fight, threw kicks, knees, lefts and rights, went for clinches, got on top of Lyoto, was trying to fight, and Machida would back away and run anytime a fight might actually take place.

This is literally the first fight that I am disappointed at Machida in, and you're talking to a guy who once defended him in the first Shogun fight.
 
#175 ·
Easily the most disappointing fight I've seen in a long time. Machida will go on to lose to Jones again and Hendo will hopefully fight someone who doesn't dart to the other side of the cage whenever he tries to engage with him.

I wanted to see Jones vs. Hendo as well, so something added to the disappointment.
 
#178 ·
This fight sucked, expected a lot more action. However Machida easily won that, Henderson had nothing look frustrated more than anything. He had his moments, but did nothing. Machida did exactly what Machida does, and Henderson stood there and watched for the majority of the fight.
 
#180 ·
I hope Machida does not get a title fight after this showing.

I don't blame him for his strategy, it was obvious that he could not hurt Hendo and that he could play tag all day long, but still. He can "win" most of his fights by getting on his bike and tagging someone 10 times in a fight while getting tagged only 4 or 5 himself; it requires skill to do be as elusive as he can be, but that does not sell tickets.
 
#183 ·
Doubt Machida and Glover fight in a non-title fight, Glover's already said he'd rather not fight him and they train together regularly.
 
#184 ·
wtf there actually are normal ppl who thought dan won? that was an easy win for machida...i was surprised to see a split decision

i really dont understand some fans who say these fighters are just running, im guessing they are the same ones who think every fight on the ground is LnP? this was a nice fight, not amazing but far from boring, great technical fight from machida...made dan look pathetic really, the only fight i can say was actually running is the guida/maynard fight

this fight and the condit fight are examples of great footwork and countering
 
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