Comments on: Lyoto Machida Vs Rameau Sokoudjou Fight Video UFC 79 Nemesis

By: Karo

Karo — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:52:58 +0000

I do not understand why Soko did not train the ground game better. If you train judo and have such good takedowns you should have a good ground game. Soko didn’t have lack of stamina, he was lost. He had great takedown, but he did nothing on his back. He should have trained to have a good clinch and ground game. If he does that, he could be great.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:07:13 +0000

Judo is too much of a regulated sport like boxing and not a true fighting style.Don’t get me wrong you can learn a lot from judo but if you are to do well in MMA you need a lot more than just judo skills with a few punches thrown in.

By: ACosta

ACosta — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:08:36 +0000

Why people keep buuuuing every time a fight doesn’t turn it a slug fest????

Bunch of ignorant people.

By: Eumesmo

Eumesmo — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:08:49 +0000

That was not the first fight of Machida in UFC! He defeated Nakamura in other UFC!

By: dirty 7-30

dirty 7-30 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:13:29 +0000

yes, that seems to be what really happened here!^^^^^^

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:27:09 +0000

Dirty 7-30, I agree with your assessment about judo fighters but it doesn’t apply here at all. Sokoudjou is an MMA fighter now and trains out of one of the more gruelling camps. I don’t think stamina had anything to do with this fight. I think a combination of being frustrated with Machida’s style, getting dropped and rained down with strikes just broke his spirit a bit. Couple that with the fact that Machida is clearly the superior ground fighter and that’s the kind of outcome you get.

By: anthony

anthony — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:16:08 +0000

I don’t think Rogan is that bad. I think alot of what he does is try to balance out the ignorance comming from his commentating partner. That said, I’d like to see Frank Trigg commentating for the UFC.

By: markus

markus — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:49:51 +0000

Machida is a good fighter at 205, but he gives up a lot of weight. i think it’d be better for him if he dropped to 185. rich franklin looks bigger than him. that or he should put on some muscle.

By: dirty 7-30

dirty 7-30 — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:14:12 +0000

I didn’t say anything wrong about Judo, I have tonnes of respect for JUDO, what I was saying is that Judokas lack stamina, and that a judo tournament is totally different than an MMA tournament, nothing agains Judo. If you see Judo tournaments, the fighters aren’t all ways on top of each other, their physical contacts is brief compared to MMA. It is not JUDO’s fault, it’s just the way that tournament rules have been set. The rules put more emphasis on throws rather than other aspects of the art. I’m pretty sure many judoka’s enter MMA tournament believing they have stamina… only to be proven wrong.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:35:05 +0000

Rogan has always spoke highly of fighters from Pride from what I can remember and always was very excited when their fighters came over…as we all should be. There are a lot of great fighters out there who want to fight the best and MMA fighters from Pride and the UFC are the best…well then theres Fedor who is a great fighter yet decides to pad his record by fighting people he knows he can beat like Hong Man and Matt Lindland (a middleweight) there are many others he wants an easy win not a battle.