Satan's Anus wroteWhat a dumb website. Machida CLEARLY won round 1. Cannot be argued. Yet, according to what I'm seeing there (if my quick glance had me understanding properly), Rua essentially dominated round 1, and the whole fight for that matter. Didn't happen.
It calculates all the strikes made in the fight, how is it dumb? lol. Those stats and Compustrike stats are referenced on numerous MMA related sites.
Here's the compustrike results for the fight, which is just like fight metric, which break down the strikes and takedowns/attempts round by round, which has Rua ahead in round one. Technically he was only behind in the second round.
<a class="postlink" href="http://compustrike.com/stats_files/ufc_104/MacHida-Rua.HTM">http://compustrike.com/stats_files/ufc_ ... da-Rua.HTM</a>
By the way, the UFC has been quoting Compustrike or Fightmetric stats in hype shows and what have you. I just can't remember which and google isn't pulling anything up.
These are facts and while it was a close decision, Shogun did more work and accomplished more. On top of this he was aggressive and controlled the pace.
I'm a bit bitter about the whole Lesner/Carwin thing. I was hoping Shane would KO that douche. It's my birthday, it would be somewhat sentimental to me. What a shame it's being postponed. I think Shane should just ride it out until the actual fight, unless he absolutely has to fight. I don't know what the conditions are of his contract or whatever.