Free Fight: Chris Weidman vs Lyoto Machida | UFC 175, 2014

we're on our way, lefty Machida and the dark trunks, the blue and white trunks for champion Chris Weidman right away. Weidman opens with three very interesting kicks in a row. I have had a lot of confidence in his abilities all around in a

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er who works diligently to be a better striker, improved submissions, was already on his excellent recipe, yes he is deceptively good at range Mike, one of the things about him is the way he goes in and out before committing to hitting very well at range, we said it once before attacking. Lyoto Machida is like running into a wood chipper, you must be careful when approaching Lyoto Machida, a man you cannot emulate in camp.

Well, that's why I was surprised that he immediately attacked with kicks and the ear still didn't spread like Leo's toes. Game plan most of the time Joey feels it, he tries to see the openings and then attacks well, it could be that with the opening the strategy could be with these kicks that he wants the odo to try to counter and then that is where he is going to start . the takedown got him, there's the cup exactly what we thought immediately, he's in for a single, but Liotta for Jones very well, but as we suspect it was probably the strategy, the leg caught him, took him down by just a fraction second, so look Leo needs to be much more judicious with his kicks, now a nice inside kick from champion Weidman again that time Ochita came in on him, cut him off.

Leo's toe missed that long straight, loud left from Weidman cuts Lyoto Machida's chin, so what does Chris want? Cut to the Octagon Joe, another good kick and Leo's toe is trying to catch it as he throws that timed kick with that left hand, but he hasn't been able to time it correctly so far, but Weidman puts tremendous pressure. I changed his stance to At one point, Ryota was spinning away from his left leg. This is Wiseman's style. The constant pressure stays on you and makes it very difficult for a guy like Leo to set up the counterattack again with a kick for two in a row.

Weidman has never been. out strikeout in his professional career he has had a good start here against Machida both

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s against Anderson zero talent with that left man to clean up and kick first although both ended early Weidman has been scheduled many times for five, he has never reached the distance of Five rounds in fact, he hasn't gotten past the work of the second round, although he should be looking for that high kick, but he was a little off balance. too lean on the clock in the first round, nachita leads the Uppercut, nothing there either. Leo Doe is having a little problem with the pressure mic hissing, that's what Chris said through Anderson Silva and also through a body kick.

Chris caught him from the ear, recovered his leg 30 and Chris is an undefeated fighter and has the confidence and bravery of one who is not arrogant but confident in the last seconds just getting out of danger was macho from that blow with the right hand, there is a good kick to Weidman's leg and there is a counter that caught Weidman clean and there is another that tried to touch him with a right hand, but came up a little short in the second round. Nice inside kick from Machida Ray. Longo very satisfied with Weidman's performance so far, the elusiveness, the unorthodox attack, his lifelong teammates, Anderson Silva, Lyoto Machida.

It will be similar moments when Chris Weidman's block pie begins. Weidman's corner was saying the way he backs up and moves, he can't win a fight like that, keep the pressure on him, we'll get him, he said, we'll have a lot of confidence in the corner. by Chris Weidman as you and I talk about that high praise many, many years ago, it's short, the left landed, so Weidman opened up again when he was trying to be the aggressor. Liotta backs away, but again Weidman claims the center of the octagon after each of these exchanges. Leo Doe can.

Don't turn his back away from the cage if you noticed that this has been the trend and that the first and second rounds have been controlling the center, giving Leo very little room to move backwards, forcing him to run to get well to the sides. counterattack over Whiteman wasn't a good body kick, it's different to what he did with Anderson to throw him off his game, but his pressure is certainly relentless, there's no doubt that Leo's toes have to do something to try to claim. the center give yourself more space one thing Leo mass does very well covers the ground comes and goes as well as anyone but we haven't seen it yet the Whiteman limits your movement so severely when a fighter realized that here is good for Liotta how long Can you hold it well?

Rich girl has a nice inside kick to the leg, but slowly but surely, Chris starts to put pressure on him and get him back in that cage again. Macchina tries to get in a little. The more they can stand like this, the more Machida can achieve. comfortable Chris keeping one hand on his face at all times be in the lead from the southpaw or to the left from the orthodox there it is there here it is again yes Leo tried to jump with that right hand but didn't land cleanly with the jumping front kick by Whiteman and again claims the center of the cage 21 career wins for former light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida was a perfect 11 and OH seven and OH in the UFC and Joe that is noteworthy for the flights to your professional career and your fights in the UFC, yeah, I mean, he's been pretty exceptional early on in one of those pro wins before the UFC was a knockout win over Uriah Hall, yeah, I mean, he's been pretty impressive, pretty quick to see who's landing at a best percentage so far, it's Lyoto.

Machida is good, he left Leo the toe on top, but Chris Weidman took more hits. The precision is good. Alioto's up a little bit, there's the shot again, this time it's got him down about the frequency of the hits from him and the fan cleaning up here in the last minute. of brown to the right in front of Chris Weidman's corner, a great place for Weidman to be on top and together you can hear Matt Serra practically anywhere the last 30 of round number two here and here comes the ground and the hit by Chris Weidman. the others are in trouble, this is where Chris is bigger and stronger, there isn't much time left, I mean even when Liotta was at 205, Weidman could still be fine, either because of the white men, he doesn't have the trap anymore for the head.

Leo takes some punishment here late in the second around 3:00, but gets a very confident corner from Chris Weidman, Father Charlie in the corner. On Shawn Balad's day, his teammate, coming off a fight of the night victory last week in New Zealand, jabs Dragon Yoda in the face. tries to go high but Whiteman blocks him, fakes the middle Jo and then goes to the outside, a shot comes out again Chris Weidman did exactly what he wanted to do, he defeated Anderson Silva twice, but even he knows there's some validation coming . with tonight's potential victory over former champion Machida only because the way those fights ended Chris hasn't let anything bother him Joey just keeps going and says I'll take down whoever they put in front of me, the car is going opening with something There are problems in this round, that left kick to the body is particularly effective due to the differences in their stances.

Chris is orthodox in his approach to Leo, there is no fight for the southpaw position, he opens up that powerful back kick to the body again. Kenny, not at that moment. great takedown for the champion second of the fight for Chris Weidman straight into the guard of the cheetah Machida with his feet on the hips TV a push while pushing has to be careful with attacks on Weidman's leg a veteran jiu-jitsu black belt Brazilian

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to upset at 185 seven times Machida has been scheduled for five rounds, he has gone the distance twice why the man, if he

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s his left leg, will try to take the back of the cheetah he is grabbing with the over-under now which is They got the back, the Cheetahs are going to try to get that right shoulder out and get that big knee out widening and then the cars released Lyoto Machida Chris Weidman right after the midway point of this title fight.

Excellent combination by the champion. Now comes a lot of pressure. from Weidman, that's one of his displays is that relentless pressure with the right hand and Leo spraying the toe again, there's a cut that was the punch Weidman landed in that exchange, he landed another big right and a left behind, a lot Time to work. Car with some good body speed and Weidman takes him down again, he is the bigger middleweight and like we said before Joe, even if they met at 2:05, I think Wipin would still be the bigger of the two men Yes, absolutely, it's huge. for a middle road, yeah, it's not an easy cut for him at all and he was interviewed yesterday, you could see the tension on his face, it's a tough cut for sure, and he's got Leo's toes back once more and he opened the cut with that right hand that you talked about for a minute on the clock here in the third round and they went up and down again.

Lyoto was trying to look up to check the clock and protect himself at 45 seconds he was from his corner and he glances at hot be the lamb leo doesn't say these guys are using Weidman says Leo has his fingers and widen the gloves and now Wyden is covering the nose of the ochita Odom under 30 Lyoto trying to get up again he's out of the Odo he's a damn disaster, yes, and he's getting fat ten seconds, see if there's a possible kick to the head, yeah you can see I'm trying to set something up on the left side look at his kicker and I need the kick especially in the round he didn't do.

I don't have to worry about dollars being taken from me, but there's the right elbow on the cheetah, but a hard right hand from the champion and here's a big takedown by Weisman Leo Doe so far no response to Chris Weidman's attack and this by far . As deep as Weidman has gone in his professional career, he had previously failed to get past the second round four times scheduled for five rounds of championship Machida and Weidman for the belt at 185 a small ribbon hanging from Chris Weidman's right glove, he don't want give Leo time to get things started Joe Machida has to know that the judges have favored Weidman so far and there are only two rounds left yes he has to win my stoppage one way or another kick the submission a good punch to the body that generally hurts the cheetah absorbs fewer hits than almost anyone and the history of the UFC.

Weidman tagged him a lot tonight. Good need in the body by Weidman for that exchange. There you see the numbers to validate what we were talking about. There you have it. Machida caught. He, with a left, increased the intensity in that last combination he tried, which Weidman's Neeb caught him and went down again for now, Machida's wide base trying to get back up, beautiful work, I'm a cheetah jumping out of there, the Odo they have done something. Things are great Joe, but he hasn't been able to gain the momentum from Chris' good wife, who left Leo, the baby, that's going to start, since we know one thing, he will never be out of the fight, definitely not he will be out if he could absolutely do it and remember Weidman. although he tries to legitimately join Misty to fight what they miss the shots there for the first time, Chris Weidman takes big deep breaths, but she died, he can attack them again;

Tara Potter Weidman brings it, which means he wants it apart from the others. I have a lot of time to work here goes that impulse we are talking about looking for the good high kick to the body the Karate kids start to light up and then I move on to the body which has been their best blow that kicked to the body tag them again with the left hand a lot of confidence for part of the former light heavyweight champion, he's doing a great job of keeping Weidman guessing whether or not it's going to be that kick or that left hand there's the left hand again, go to Chris Weidman's mouth wait, put some in now breathe a lot more strong that before in this fight unexplored waters for the All American at the top no weapons came out of Lyoto Machida, he shot just over a minute now, in the fourth round, the Brazilians have hope.

I've seen that before and it works pretty well. Ryota knocked out Randy Couture in Toronto with that front kick trying to join the tour and BJ Penn as the only man to win a UFC belt in two weight classes took a deep hit from Weidman so far. by Machida very funny Machida leo doe has made 8 of 12 takedowns in the city a lot of pressure from the dragon Yoda Matina attacking Chris Weidman Loganlea odo we have a plan big left hand on the bell they are standing here inside the Mandalay Bay Events Center, let's take a look look at some of this ash gold, there's a left hook that hooks Weidman, there's a right hand that bounces off the shoulder and there's a clean right hand and that's the end of the round, a left hand on the fifth job. and the final assault is usually an inside leg kick, but Machida againwith the body, Weidman changes his stand-up act and is already very bruised in that under the right arm, right in the ribcage, with those tits, he continues to provide a lot of support for the Brazilian mechina now. controlling the center of the octagon like that punch in the last round, Joey, we talked about now the momentum is with Machida, but he might need to stop this fight to win, well I think he needs it or he needs a big round, yeah that would be . scored a round 10-8 and that would only give him a tie four minutes remain Lyoto right there in his face pulls his left hand up by Machida look at that left knee of Machida we have to fill in another excellent takedown defense so far we have to occupy the work, I'm making a sound, yeah, and you'll be there, bye, brother, Ryota was the pressure of the two fighters, well, I think he did some real damage in that fourth round, Mike, how big was that round and this one.

It's also where the weekly chopping factor comes in with Whiteman Lyonnel's big vibin right hand shaking it off. off the cheetah on top Weidman pressing, which is what Ray Longo said, you've got to continue doing under three, what a great fight for the title, why not face them? The cheetah moves forward, although watch out for the knee at the midpoint of the fifth and final round. leg kick from Weidman Wow, Chris's hands were down though Joe, we will all miss his cute knee widening the turn and biting the hand, well done Chris Weidman, now the cars really broke in the left eye;

It was a really good elbow stuck in that elbow. Well, he left the autoplay down two, but Cheetah in 40 G H and L took fifth place in the fight for the champion. Many have been stopped, but this could be the biggest fight unless the owner pulled an Anderson Silva, you know. I'd rather be standing still. I've been looking to press in and get that right leg out of the guard she's sliding on, she's going to mount, she's going to take the cheetah's back, beautiful job securing the baseball bats, but she's struggling. to try to get out of that position we have lied to him and kept him in place he will now crush him 50 seconds Lyoto trying to

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himself trying to get back in his face he can't stand this place although neodo up can he? to go out, there was not much time left for Chena, although that was a great minute in which Weidman had the first position, Joe, a great minute and a lot of domination on the part of Weidling, his excellent punches, the takedown, this is what needed and began to team up with the second mechina trying to achieve a miracle piratinha eight seconds Machida shooting go to the end what fight what fight what Oh fun Wow ladies and gentlemen after five rounds let's go to the judges' scorecards to take the decision the judges for the contest forty-nine forty-five forty-eight forty-seven and forty-nine forty-six for the winner by unanimous decision the UFC middleweight world champion Chris big title fight Weidman defends against Machida you