Fedor Is More Elusive Than Machida

Fedor spends more time on the ground but I suppose that is still a way of nullifying being hit. Silva and Machida don't get involved as much as Fedor and GSP. Those guys put themself in the thick of it and engage.

 

Yea I think that Fedor and GSP definately are more willing to get invovled in a fight.

Machida seems to know that he can handle anyone on there feet so why bother taking it to the ground and Silva in his last 2 fights just seemed to be afraid he might get caught and never really bothered to take a chance in taking his guy out.

While Machida in my opinion is rising to the occassion and showing that killer instinct Silva is starting to lose his edge and I think he doesn't want to lose that auora of p4p greatness so he is now being WAY too cautious. If you watch Fedor he has and always will fight the same with that same killer instinct.

 

Oh sorry back to the subject, looks as though Machida and Fedor are very close now. I'd have to agree that ending his fights earlier has definately helped Lyoto to catch Fedor. How ever you look at it they are both very impressive.

 

who would beat Fedor in the UFC and how would they do it???

 

When the UFC (Tim Sylvia) went to Fedor, he got ****ed up

 

And Arlovski.:yep

 

I'd love to see Fedor wreck Mir and he would......

 

**** man i can't wait for Fedor to get knocked out

 

I bet you wank over his fight with Kevin randleman, always managing to cum just before the suplex

 

It goes without saying that Fedor is one of the greatest P4P fighter of all time. Aside from those statistics, I do believe however that for pure ability to avoid shots, Machida is better. And I also think that Machida has an uncanny ability to not take flush shots. Anyone who has watched Fedor fight over the years knows he's been hit flush. Arlovski might have hit Fedor more often in their very brief encounter than Machida has been hit in his last 2 or 3 fights combined. I'm not saying Fedor has been hurt very often but he has been caught. I'm also not saying that Machida is the better fighter...

Machida could achieve historical greatness on par with Fedor in a few years time. We are witnessing the ascension of an athlete on the same level as Michael Jordan, Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods AND Fedor Emelianenko.

 

i do wack off to the randleman fight

fedor sucks

 

Not a good measurement of the infamous "elusivness" factor.

Machida generally stands and strikes, while Fedor is on the ground dominating someone. If Fedor sought to stand and strike as much as possible, he'd no doubt be getting hit much more.

Think about it - does anyone actually think that if Machida and Fedor were in pure striking match, that Fedor would be outboxing/striking Machida? Of course not - it's all about the style differences, not their ability to avoid a punch.

The real measure should be their opponents hit percentage.

 

If you watch the Fedor Arlovski fight in slo mo you'll see Arlovski really didn't hit him very well at all. Not to take away from Machida's defensive skills at all he's amazing .....but watch Fedor and Andre in slo mo and you'll see.....:yep plus the fact that Fedor was unmarked..... when he's hit well he cuts...