The main event of UFC 104 featured current UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto “The Dragon” Machida in his first defense of the title he wrestled from TUF Season 10 coach Rashad Evans at UFC 98 against Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, the former PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix Tournament Winner.
The fight was a tactical one as each fighter carefully “felt” each other all throughout the fight. They had their respective moments. What’s shocking for Machida fans is that Shogun was able to neutralize Machida’s vaunted counter strikes and repeatedly tagged him with leg kicks.
When the smoke was cleared, Shogun might have failed to slay The Dragon but left it brutally wounded. For the first time ever, Machida lost not one but two UFC rounds and he really looked vulnerable.
UFC 104: Machida vs Shogun was scheduled for October 24, 2009 (October 25, Sunday here in the Philippines) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Here’s the Machida vs Shogun video of the fight:
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October 23rd, 2009 at 10:35 pm
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October 24th, 2009 at 1:30 am
Yay. That would be exciting. Sana Sunday na haha
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October 25th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
very cool
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October 26th, 2009 at 12:45 am
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October 26th, 2009 at 9:26 am
congrats on another UFC victory!
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ark Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Yeah, congrats to Machida.
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October 28th, 2009 at 3:08 am
your link to the shogun machida fight isn’t working. please send me a link when it works.
thaniks
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ark Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
You must have viewed the cached version. The video should work now.
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will Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
thanks for your efforts, but it’s still not working. i searched all over the net for it but still can’t find it!
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ark Reply:
October 30th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Well, Zuffa has been strict nowadays that they keep removing these videos. Talk about copyright issues.
I found another source. I hope it should work now.
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November 5th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Have to say , lucky decision for machida, coulda worked a bit harder…looked a bit flat at the end.
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November 6th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
the fight could actually go either way. it’s so close. a rematch should settle it all.
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ark Reply:
November 7th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
I couldn’t agree more.
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November 10th, 2009 at 4:08 am
shogun was clearly landing the harder shots, higher volume of strikes, and in the end, machida looked fatigued and damaged. shame on th3 judges. shogun got the short end of th stick.
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