Throwback to when Machida destroyed Rashad Evans

[Iroh]

‘Suga’ Rashad Evans came into the fight as an undefeated newly crowned champion with a record of 13-0-1 (18-0-1 according to the UFC)

With victories over two of the UFC’s biggest stars at the time in Chuck Liddell and Forrest Griffin, Rashad Evans was crowned fighter of the year in 2008 by several MMA media websites.

Enter ‘The Dragon’ Lyoto Machida

Lyoto Machida was also undefeated in his MMA career with a 14-0 perfect record with victories over the likes of Tito Ortiz, Rich Franklin, B.J. Penn, Stephen Bonnar, Thiago Silva, etc. Machida never lost a round in his UFC career at this point.

The matchup was the first time two undefeated fighters have competed in a UFC title fight.

Machida outclassed Rashad Evans using his unorthodox Machida karate style to time Evans and explode with strikes, rocking him towards the end of round 1 before finishing him in brutal fashion in round 2.

Although the “Machida era” was shortly lived, this performance remains as one of the most dominant championship performances of any fighter in MMA.

Will there ever be a more iconic unconscious face than <mma2> ?


Poor Rashad.

 

[BC]

Will there ever be a more iconic unconscious face than <mma2> ?


Poor Rashad.

I don’t believe so, poor Rashad indeed

 

[Hotora86]

"If you have a dweem. Go head. I can do that"

"Thank you Joe Rogan"

Best post fight speech ever. Shit English yet so inspiring!

 

[Iroh]

I don’t believe so, poor Rashad indeed

Does the dude have a podcast or is he in the public eye in any other way? I really like when he drops by the Ariel's show, but other than that I don't see him too often.

 

[BC]

Does the dude have a podcast or is he in the public eye in any other way? I really like when he drops by the Ariel's show, but other than that I don't see him too often.

I wish, I would like to see him on JRE, he was recently on Mike Tyson’s new podcast which was pretty fascinating.

 

[Sleestaxk]

‘Suga’ Rashad Evans came into the fight as an undefeated newly crowned champion with a record of 13-0-1 (18-0-1 according to the UFC)

With victories over two of the UFC’s biggest stars at the time in Chuck Liddell and Forrest Griffin, Rashad Evans was crowned fighter of the year in 2008 by several MMA media websites.

Enter ‘The Dragon’ Lyoto Machida

Lyoto Machida was also undefeated in his MMA career with a 14-0 perfect record with victories over the likes of Tito Ortiz, Rich Franklin, B.J. Penn, Stephen Bonnar, Thiago Silva, etc. Machida never lost a round in his UFC career at this point.

The matchup was the first time two undefeated fighters have competed in a UFC title fight.

Machida outclassed Rashad Evans using his unorthodox Machida karate style to time Evans and explode with strikes, rocking him towards the end of round 1 before finishing him in brutal fashion in round 2.

Although the “Machida era” was shortly lived, this performance remains as one of the most dominant championship performances of any fighter in MMA.

Another good one BC. Enjoyed it thouroughly.

 

[AZ103]

Did she sub you?

Haha no. I wrestled with her fiancee in high school though. He wasnt good. She threw hay better than some bitch ass men who came through where we worked and she worked inside unless they called out over the heat.

Another side note. I wrestled a female olympian once at a wrestling camp when i was 15. I was a relative nobody and i smoked her. So did my teammate. Women shouldnt compete with men. Except the girl from the above story in naked cowboy karate.

 

[Sleestaxk]

Suga Rashad was my first favorite fighter that was the first fight I watched in mma that left me bummed out lmao

He was one of my favorites at the time as well. I really wanted him to expose Machida as a hype machine but deep down I knew Machida was better.

 

[BC]

Another good one BC. Enjoyed it thouroughly.

Thank you bud

 

[Sleestaxk]

classic koscheck syndrome


rashad and kos are kind of similar too, both guys had some of the best double legs/wrestling in their division, get a couple knockouts then fall in love with overhands n shit.

Kos was another of my favorites at the time, I actually thought he had a shot at beating GSP when the fought. But in reality I knew who was better in that one too

 

[orca]

Bro hes my profile pic on my fb gaming page. P4p numba #1 machida fan

 

[kalabula]

He gave “Moose” the what f’r as well.

 

[SKITZADACTYL]

Bro hes my profile pic on my fb gaming page. P4p numba #1 machida fan View attachment 551353

weird flex my dude

 

[8100]

This was one of those cases where a guy lost before he even got into the cage.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

I’d go back to this era of mma over what we have now in a second

 

[JkMMA]

‘Suga’ Rashad Evans came into the fight as an undefeated newly crowned champion with a record of 13-0-1 (18-0-1 according to the UFC)

With victories over two of the UFC’s biggest stars at the time in Chuck Liddell and Forrest Griffin, Rashad Evans was crowned fighter of the year in 2008 by several MMA media websites.

Enter ‘The Dragon’ Lyoto Machida

Lyoto Machida was also undefeated in his MMA career with a 14-0 perfect record with victories over the likes of Tito Ortiz, Rich Franklin, B.J. Penn, Stephen Bonnar, Thiago Silva, etc. Machida never lost a round in his UFC career at this point.

The matchup was the first time two undefeated fighters have competed in a UFC title fight.

Machida outclassed Rashad Evans using his unorthodox Machida karate style to time Evans and explode with strikes, rocking him towards the end of round 1 before finishing him in brutal fashion in round 2.

Although the “Machida era” was shortly lived, this performance remains as one of the most dominant championship performances of any fighter in MMA.

One of the first fight that rly got me into a hardcore mma fan.