Quotes of the Day: Lyoto Machida and Mauricio "Shogun" Rua Interview One Another
by Chris Nelson on Oct 20, 2009 7:14 PM EDT
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Marcelo Alonso and Eduardo Ferreira of Brazilian website/magazine Tatame come with one of the more intriguing interviews ideas in recent memory, inviting the UFC's 205-pound champion and his challenger to sit down face-to-face shortly before their title match at UFC 104. The results are about as cordial as you'd expect from a pair of sportsmen, countrymen and former training partners, but there are some interesting bits nonetheless.
First, Lyoto questions Shogun:
What do you think about our fight and how do you see it?
I got really surprised with this fight because I like you, we’ve trained together and talked sometimes. It was really a surprise, but the only person I wouldn’t like to fight with is Wanderlei Silva. I respect you, you’re the top of the category now, but we’re professionals and we have to fight. It’s hard to talk about a strategy of fight, because sometimes we get there and can’t make it. Actually I don’t know what I’ll do, and I have no idea of what you’ll do too. I hope that everything goes in my way, of course (laughs). But actually it’s very hard you keep saying that you’ll do this or that, each fight is a fight. Only on the night of the fight we’ll see.
Then Rua interviews the champ:
Are you taking English classes?
Yes, sometimes I study more, and sometimes less. I study alone, sometimes, but I always take the book to study. I think it’s really important do develop myself up there, inside and outside the octagon, because sometimes you have interviews. When the fight ends you want to pass a message to the audience, say something besides thank you, people have to see who you are, so is with the language that we communicate easily. I didn’t participate of the last TUF because of my English, so I have to get better to have the opportunity to be on The Ultimate Fighter.
Thanks to Jordan Breen for the tip.
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I didn’t participate of the last TUF because of my English
interesting quote. is he referring to the nogueria/mir season, or being a coach on the current season?
I think the original rumor was Rampage and Lyoto as coaches for this current season.
by Chris Nelson on Oct 20, 2009 7:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Pretty cool that Lyoto could have been a TUF coach if he could speak english better....
Nice nugget there.
how come when machida talks about studying english by himself I think of the scene in “dragon’ the bruce lee story” where bruce lee sits there quietly with his old man reading glasses and sipping on a nice tiny cup of oolong tea (minus the demons since lyotos dad is alive and well)
by yin hsiung on Oct 20, 2009 7:22 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
and just to add to this….. that cover magazine may have set a new record for bushiest eyebrows on a magazine cover
gotta love machida
and his genuine effort to connect with fans…. it would have done anderson well to learn english
by cagefightonacid on Oct 20, 2009 7:35 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Anyone thinks the UFC still tries to throw some sort of “bad blood” angle in come fight night anyway?
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by Brent Brookhouse on Oct 20, 2009 7:48 PM EDT reply actions
I doubt it
otherwise they’d have tried something like that for the countdown.
SHOGUN WILL SLAY THE DRAGON!!!
SHOGUN TO BE THE NEW LHW CHAMP!!!
Random, but
I find it funny how epicly wrong MMA writers can be. it was predicted on mmamania that the machida v. evans fight was gonna be slow and boring, yea that worked out :P however I do not believe this will be fight of the year, unless machida has one hell of a chin and shogun comes extremely well prepared. even then though, Idk if I see this going long enough to be fight of the year.
At the risk of being another epicly wrong MMA writer,
I think Machida is going to absolutely pick Shogun apart. I don’t see this going into the championship rounds either.
by Chris Nelson on Oct 20, 2009 8:18 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
Sort of agree
that is a possibility, but I do believe shogun will show up in tip top shape, and machida hasn’t fought anyone near shoguns level of pure talent, so its hard to tell how he’ll respond. you can’t deny that rashad was petrified of machida, so I don’t really give him much for that win. one thing I did learn in that fight come to think about it, is that machida did (to my knowledge) eat a really big punch from rashad when he was jumping in aggresivly. im sure shogun is looking to capitalize on the moments where machida jumps in to either take him down or counter him, which seems a lot more likely with shogun on the other end rather than rashad. if the odds were even I’d probably put my money on machida, however :)
by Hendo_One-Shot on Oct 20, 2009 8:27 PM EDT up reply actions
so I don’t really give him much for that win
….What more do you want??? Not only did he make Rashad look like Bald Bull, but he also took the belt…
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by WeaponElDeem on Oct 21, 2009 9:00 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I’m starting to like Shogan’s ‘batman symbol’ chest hair.
by MikeD32 on Oct 20, 2009 8:08 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Machida all the way!
even though i wouldn’t mind seeing an upset. both fighter are top of the food chain dudes. (and i enjoy watching them both a lot) so if anyone wins its us the FANS.
That's his walkout shirt apparently
So we’ll be seeing 4-5 of those beauties Saturday night.
I wouldn't eat that
might have some urine in it :P
SHOGUN WILL SLAY THE DRAGON!!!
SHOGUN TO BE THE NEW LHW CHAMP!!!
This was really a great idea, having them interview each other. I wonder how a Rashad/Rampage interview would have went?
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by MyFistYourFace on Oct 20, 2009 10:21 PM EDT reply actions
I think it’s very cool that Lyoto is learning English. I think he is really starting to understand the connection between being an exciting fighter and a marketable one, especially being able to communicate with the English speaking audience. He seems to embrace everything that other champs seem to reject.
I love me some Sexyama!
“Other champs” being Anderson Silva. Penn, St. Pierre, and Lesnar all act to increase their marketability, albeit in different ways.
by Michaelthebox on Oct 21, 2009 2:02 AM EDT up reply actions
SHOGUN: Dana White wants to make an event on Brazil, would you like to participate? What would be your dream card to Brazilians?
MACHIDA: Wanderlei against Belfort, Minotauro against Brock Lesnar, me against Quinton Jackson, Shogun against Forrest, Anderson against Fedor and, if GSP moves to middleweight, he’d face Demian Maia.
Damn, I would love to see that.
I think I would black out from the sheer awesomeness of that card 5 minutes before it started.
I specializes in grammar fail.
by a tommy point on Oct 21, 2009 12:09 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
That actually would be an awesome card, except for Maia vs. GSP.
for all intents and purposes, just consider all my posts as works of satire.
that would be an awesome fight
GSP’s ground and pound vs Maia’s jits!
SHOGUN WILL SLAY THE DRAGON!!!
SHOGUN TO BE THE NEW LHW CHAMP!!!
no it won't
it will be GSP, marquardt-ing Maia all over again..
by Anton Tabuena on Oct 21, 2009 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions
dang im always amazed how closely lyoto resembles ryu from steet fighter physically as well as his persona.. its unreal… lyoto hadoken machida!
Looks-wise, Machida looks like Ryu and has stated (I forgot where though) that his favorite charcter from Streetfighter is Ryu. In the cage, I always make the comparison of Lyoto Machida to Bruce Lee. There’s something about the way he fights that reminds me of Bruce Lee.
I agree, Lyoto and Ryu are very similar style and facial features wise. However, I think Anderson Silva best resembles Bruce Lee, style wise.
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I think it's about time
we see a TUF: Brazil season. There have got to be enough amateur and semi-professional fighters to fill out the roster and the coaches would be able to speak their native Portuguese. Unfortunately, I think I would be in the minority in being comfortable watching the whole season in subtitles.
yeah
as much as I’d love to see a season like that, it would definitely be one of the less viewed TUF’s if they tried something like that. People don’t like reading subtitles too much.
SHOGUN WILL SLAY THE DRAGON!!!
SHOGUN TO BE THE NEW LHW CHAMP!!!
FAIL!
I wanted more controversy…
Let’s mak Baroni vs. Trigg happen…
And make those two do this shit.
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by Leland Roling on Oct 21, 2009 10:03 AM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Did they take the afternoon off to go fishing after this interview?
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