Better practice on your cardio right now Silva, cuz you gona do alot of running.

I don’t care how much Thiago presses the action, Machida always has a perfect game plan to escape. Great fight, but a horrible fight in my opinion since I’m biased.

Two opposites from the same country. Maybe it will end in the 2nd round to even things out

This is the worst possible match-up. Both these guys are stellar up-and-comers, why force one of them to mar his record at this point in his career?

Machida deserves to be no more than one fight away from a title shot, and that fight must be against someone better ranked than he is: Griffin, Jackson, Liddell, W.Silva, Jardine or Rua and no one else! The most sensible fight would be with W.Silva, who should also be no more than one fight away from a title shot. Assuming Liddell knocks out Evans, we’d get the winner of W.Silva vs Machida against the winner of Griffin vs Liddell. Now THOSE would be awesome fights.

T.Silva deserves to be no more than 2 fights away from a title shot, the first against a Top 10er and the second against a Top 5er. Sokoudjou would have been ideal for T.Silva’s next fight, or else Evans, but of course Evans was stupidly and undeservingly matched up with Liddell sigh

Machida and T.Silva each have the potential to win the belt with an unblemished record. It is heartbreaking that one of these guys will have to walk away from this fight with a loss.

well the mma fights a conflict of interesting 13-0 LHW title challengers without doubt adds plot to the Bisping vs. Leben event. It also looks as though the UFC was at last able to find a man that was willing to fight Machida and win, lose or draw I think Thiago Silva should be highly praised for tolerant the fight so many men did not.

First of all, Machida WILL remain undefeated after facing Thiago. Thiago only stands a chance of he can catch Lyoto in a ground n’pound attack. Unfortunately for Silva, Machida is too smart to get caught in a boring predictable g n’p attack, and The Dragon does have ground skills that can neutralize Thiago. Silva’s striking skills are nowhere near that of Machida’s, though he may have power however he lacks Lyoto’s speed and accuracy.
Next, it seems that many fans only know of Machida based on what they’ve seen in the UFC. “up and coming”?.....Lyoto is not an up and coming fighter, the man IS established WORLD CLASS and has beaten fighters who were/are champs in the UFC (Penn, Franklin, Ortiz). Have any of them seen The Dragon outstrike Bonnar, pulverize Dimitri or grapple with a much bigger Greco? Based on their comments, probably not.
It takes TWO to fight, and if many so-called MMA fans think Machida’s style is boring, then his opponents must REALLY be boring because he makes them all look like puzzled amateurs. Machida is but a handful of TRUE martial “artists” in MMA, which is diluted with boring predictable ground n’pounders….I doubt you’ll see Oritz pulling switch kicks on anyone anytime soon. Thiago doesn’t have the dynamic well-roundedness that Machida has, and therefore The Dragon will take Silva’s 0.