Machida Looking to Set the Records Straight

When the lanky karate specialist Brazilian with a Japanese ancestry first made his move to the Ultimate Fighting Championship or the UFC, not many people had thought of him as a long term success in the industry and had considered the promotion’s signing him as a marketing ploy to break into the Japanese market. But with a starting record of 16-0, Lyoto Machida quickly overcame the odds and even went on to become the UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, and got himself the accolade and praise from the critics that he felt he deserved.

Years have passed since that initial success and now, Machida has been considerably struggling in the industry with three losses in his last four fights, losses against opponents that he would have defeated in his sleep in his early days in the UFC. But Lyoto Machida is a fighter and it is not in his DNA to give up hope as long as his body can take the beating and has landed a match against Ryan Bader for the network televised fight card on FOX 4 which will take place on the 4^th of August, in Los Angeles, California in the famous Staples Center arena.

Bader, who was the winner of The Ultimate Fighter 8 is considered to be one of the brightest young prospects in the UFC at the moment in his division and if Machida can manage to defeat him, it will put him right back into the Championship picture that has almost passed him by since his UFC 140 defeat to the Champion Jon Jones.

Lyoto Machida believes that he still has a couple of fights left in him and can endure another Championship battle and before he signs off, he would especially want to do it with a win over Jones in the Championship match.

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THE CONTROVERSY CONTINUES

The former UFC light heavy weight champion, Lyoto Machida has recently been defeated by Jon Jones and this match created much of a controversy as Jon had just left the lifeless body of Machida to fall on the ground after the submission win. There have been talks and speculations going around where people feel that Jon has been highly unprofessional and unsporting by trying to perform such an act. Lyoto Machida on the other hand has to add another point to his number of losses which have turned out to be 3 so far out of the total 20 appearances that he has made. Out of the 17 wins 6 out them were ended by a knock out while the rest were just by submission or by decision.

Lyoto Machida made his debut with the UFC when he played against Sam Hoger at the UFC 67 and managed to end up in a win. He went on to successively winning future matches as well and hence began to create a name for himself in the fighting industry. Lyoto has a unique an unorthodox style when he fights in the MMA and makes use of a number of combined elements that he had picked up during his training in the early years.

His list of achievements and awards are quite a few in numbers and they come from a wide array of background which include those from Martial arts, Mixed Martial Arts. He has been awarded the 2009 MMA fighter of the year and has also been selected as the knockout of the night on three occasions. Besides these Lyoto Machida has also won the Fight of the night award once and the Best fighter ESPY award nomination in the year 2009. He has a black belt in Jiu Jitsu and is a 3^rd Dan Black belt in Shotokan.