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Old 10-25-2009, 01:36 AM   #1
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it was a great technical fight but i think we know that the rematch isnt gonna be a whole lot different to this one, except that machida is now wiser to rua's gameplan.
Maybe, but Machida would have to leave his entire life's training to counter Shogun. Machida's entire background is based on the shotokan style of hip and leg power generation. That's what he's trained in most prominently his whole life. It'd be a challenge for him to adopt a more conventional MMA style. Not impossible, but definitely hard for him.
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Old 10-25-2009, 01:38 AM   #2
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Maybe, but Machida would have to leave his entire life's training to counter Shogun. Machida's entire background is based on the shotokan style of hip and leg power generation. That's what he's trained in most prominently his whole life. It'd be a challenge for him to adopt a more conventional MMA style. Not impossible, but definitely hard for him.
nah i just mean he knows shogun is going for leg kicks and body kicks. everyone else he's fought thus far has just been trying to knock him out and perhaps not giving him the proper respect, shogun threw him in that regard.
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Old 10-25-2009, 01:43 AM   #3
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nah i just mean he knows shogun is going for leg kicks and body kicks. everyone else he's fought thus far has just been trying to knock him out and perhaps not giving him the proper respect, shogun threw him in that regard.
I gotcha. But IMO, the way Shogun fought that fight wasn't necessarily just the way to defeat Machida, it is the way to defeat the style. Like you said, Shogun threw him in that regard since no one else figured out how to combat Machida's karate and assumed they could simply MMA their way to victory.
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