So in summary - Machida was ahead by a point until Jones beat the snot out of him in all areas.
Machida has an uniquely awkward style that you really wouldn't be able to train for. Shogun had trouble with him in the 1st fight (although most had him as a winner) but then came back to smash him in a rematch.
All you saw from Jones was a slight puzzlement at how best to deal with him and hesitation at being countered. I'm sure he could've switched up his game and pushed for takedowns if the fight looked like slipping away, likewise I'd guarantee his gas tank would be better than Machida going into the later rounds.
It wasn't a close fight. It was an annihilation.
Yes, we all saw Jones win decisively. Finishes in fights usually are one sided and decisive.
Your response goes off on a tangent that is only barely related to my post. If you didn't catch it. Here is what my post said. Machida was competitive for a round and change. Machida is the first guy to test Jones' chin in any meaningful way.
Shogun Machida II is nothing like this. That fight was a result of Machida changing his style, not Shogun adapting his. In case you missed it, Machida came under enormous fire. He was criticized by the "just bleed" crowd for losing the fight.
In MMA you can break fights down beyond just winner and loser, there is the "fight" and there is the "game". Shogun won the fight. Shogun lost the game. Very clearly in both cases. People who win the fight, don't always win the game, and people who win the game, don't always win the fight. That is a very good example of that situation. Shogun gave up the early rounds to for a long term fight strategy and while his strategy paid off in the long term, it didn't turn in his favor until too late and he was unable to take the decision out of the hands of the judges who correctly scored the game in favor of Machida.
In fight two, Machida came out with something to prove. He wanted to prove he was correctly determined the winner in fight one, and he wanted to be more aggressive. He dropped his counter attacking style and he attacked. Shogun didn't do anything differently stylistically. He simply shit on a Lyoto Machida who dropped his own style to be more fan pleasing.
Another example of fight vs game is the Machida Rampage fight, this in my estimation was an incorrect outcome. Machida, according to Rampage won the "fight", but according to the judges Machida lost the "game". It very easily could have been declared a draw and that would have been a more appropriate outcome than Rampage winning the fight.
Getting back to Jones, you seem angry. You are raging against my post for something it does not say. To what degree you think Machida was an obstacle is your business. All I said was Machida is the first guy to really test Jones in ways he has yet to be tested.
My own opinion is this, anyone who thinks Jones simply walked through Machida and that Machida posed little more than a punchers chance needs to release the death grip on Jones' balls.
Your knuckles are turning white!
