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When did I say he was one dimensional? He can rush forward and mix it up, but he prefers to stay elusive and counter strike. His most devastating strike is that back pedaling uppercut. Watch Machida versus Silva, and then Gus versus Silva. Virtually identical game plans. Gus is a tad more aggressive when his opponent settles down, which would...play directly into Machida's strength. Gus is at his worst on the feet (relatively speaking) when he has to bring the fight to his opponent. He gets caught far too often, but his chin bails him out. A lot of times his idea of stand up defense is to fully extend his arms out and establish distance between himself and his opponent. That sloppy technique would be a huge no-no against Machida.
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Gus versus Machida would in all likelihood end up being a stalemate (think Edgar - Bendo 2). Both guys are counter strikers who like to attack while backing up, or from range. So both guys would dance around feeling each other out, waiting for the other to make the first move. It might be one of those boring yet supremely intense, oh-god-the-tension-is-killing-me, sort of fights.
what you're saying now completely contradicts what you said earlier, i.e. that gustafsson would just "dance around" waiting for machida to make a move.
also, the "flailing arms defense" (which gustafsson does not do as often as you claim) worked greats for jones vs machida and othe prominent lhw's :icon_lol:
i've no clue what you're talking about when you claim that his "back-pedaling upper-cut" is his most devastating strike. he flattened matyushenko and hammil with jabs, and he landed a couple of vicious kicks on shogun. the uppercuts he hit him with were also part of combinations he set up while he moved forward with a jab.