This ones for Anfield... Machida on Dana White

Brown Pride wrote:I dont see what Dana has done wrong with Machida personally.


"Its shit for Machida take Shogun got screwed by the judges a big and got a rematch, Machida gets screwed and gets told no rematch?"


Machida-Shogun was for a title fight, and more people thought Rampage won against Machida than who thought M.achida won at UFC 104. There was intense pressure for a rematch after 104. Thousands of fans on twitter, on MMA forums everywhere demanded a rematch. Dana twitter was going into meltdown aswell. I followed it at that time. Having a rematch was the best business move.


Machida-Rampage was not a title fight, it was not even a no.1 contender fight, it was just a fight where fighter was given a loss by the judges in which he and many other watching thought he won. No point in a rematch, no one wants to see them play cat and mouse for 15 mins again.

Anfields5thKing wrote:

Brown Pride wrote:I dont see what Dana has done wrong with Machida personally.


"Its shit for Machida take Shogun got screwed by the judges a big and got a rematch, Machida gets screwed and gets told no rematch?"


Machida-Shogun was for a title fight, and more people thought Rampage won against Machida than who thought M.achida won at UFC 104. There was intense pressure for a rematch after 104. Thousands of fans on twitter, on MMA forums everywhere demanded a rematch. Dana twitter was going into meltdown aswell. I followed it at that time. Having a rematch was the best business move.


Machida-Rampage was not a title fight, it was not even a no.1 contender fight, it was just a fight where fighter was given a loss by the judges in which he and many other watching thought he won. No point in a rematch, no one wants to see them play cat and mouse for 15 mins again.

Machida beat Shogun and was made face him again straight away because Dana wanted the belt away from BlackHouse and decided that Shogun was the only one with a chance to beat him. Also, Shogun was the posterboy for all the Pride fans who put twitter and forums "into meltdown". And Dana need to show his bosses that the Pride purchase wasn't a complete flop. Deciding to stage a fight based on twitter and internet forums is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Shogun didn't deserve his title shot, lost, and then was given another one.

Machida was denied a rematch for his belt, then beat Rampage quite easily, and gets denied a rematch.

Your right, Dana has been fair.


"More people thought Rampage beat Machida than thought Machida won at UFC 104"

Not true, at all. More UFC fanboys who live on Dana's every word might have voted on Sherdog's poll but that represents a small fraction of the people that watched both fights.

Anfields5thKing wrote:Machida easily won the fight, there's been no worse decision in a major fight this year. JZ-Thompson was a bad decision but was a much closer fight than Machida-Rampage, as was Garcia-Zombie. Both of which could have gone either way.

Just because you and your little buddies on Sherdog got together and voted doesn't mean anything. Sherdog does not represent all MMA fans. It might represent the opinion of you and a bunch of fanboys, but that's a small percentage.

Fluke knock-out means less than getting beaten over 5 rounds.

sunthunder wrote:

Anfields5thKing wrote:Machida easily won the fight, there's been no worse decision in a major fight this year. JZ-Thompson was a bad decision but was a much closer fight than Machida-Rampage, as was Garcia-Zombie. Both of which could have gone either way.

Just because you and your little buddies on Sherdog got together and voted doesn't mean anything. Sherdog does not represent all MMA fans. It might represent the opinion of you and a bunch of fanboys, but that's a small percentage.

Fluke knock-out means less than getting beaten over 5 rounds.

Sherdog is actually the largest online MMA community, and it's one of the 100 largest forums on the net. Its voting fanbase is as representative a portion of MMA fans as you will find anywhere.

Speaking via Tatame Magazine, Machida said:

“Each day that goes by you keep seeing it as a sequence of losses because you keep distancing yourself to the title, so it’s harder for you to fight a top guy, like Rashad, who’s on the line for the belt. I have to seek another fight do what I want, but when you’re in the middle of the ranking you never know what can happen to you. Vitor (Belfort), for instance, fought once and will dispute the title, because of his background, so it’s hard to say. But in my weight class I know there’re other people before me on the line, it happens.”

On whether he’ll become more aggressive inside the octagon following back-to-back losses inside the octagon, Machida said:

“It’s hard to say… People sometimes want something and it’s not always possible. St. Pierre plays by the rules all the time because he knows that, once you’re losing, nobody wants to know about you anymore. It’s great to do a great show, but you can’t do both sometimes. Sometimes you only have two chances of beating that opponent, so it’s best to keep a strategic fight and try to win because the level of the sport is so high. The other guy ain’t silly, he’s also trained. I can’t say “ok, let’s begin to exchange and see where it goes”. We want to give fight and give people a good show, but you have to play on a safety zone. Anderson Silva himself, in some of the fights he’s been doing, he does it to win, because he knows the consequences of the losses. We’re not playing an amateur sport.”

sunthunder wrote:

Anfields5thKing wrote:Machida easily won the fight, there's been no worse decision in a major fight this year. JZ-Thompson was a bad decision but was a much closer fight than Machida-Rampage, as was Garcia-Zombie. Both of which could have gone either way.

Just because you and your little buddies on Sherdog got together and voted doesn't mean anything. Sherdog does not represent all MMA fans. It might represent the opinion of you and a bunch of fanboys, but that's a small percentage.

Fluke knock-out means less than getting beaten over 5 rounds.

Sherdog is actually the largest online MMA community, and it's one of the 100 largest forums on the net. Its voting fanbase is as representative a portion of MMA fans as you will find anywhere.