Lyoto Machida

I land cleaner, more technical strikes than you, and maybe I'll get you out of there.

Timurov... is bouncy bouncy explode bouncy bouncy explode right like he he wants to hurt you in a way that is sometimes a little bit reckless uh sometimes a little bit wild but he will keep punching he will do it he'll do the lyoto machida if you were around long enough to have watched lyoto machida Machito would do the karate bounce, bounce, bounce, long-range bounce.

And then he would do these blitzing runs.

And the blitzing runs are a lot of Timurov's game.

Let's see what happens empirically when we put these different types of fighters against each other.

And then you see a really interesting evolution where someone like Lyoto Machida comes from a karate background.

And while a lot of early karate experts would just get, you know, double-legged from a wrestler or thrown by a judo player and then get sat on, suddenly you have someone like Machida who has a sumo background and a jiu-jitsu background.

He can stay on his feet.

But besides that, I mean, he's literally so good.

He defended his belt against Lyoto Machida, Daniel Cormier twice.

He's just so dominant.

He literally just destroyed pretty much everybody.

Oof.

Uh, Alderonan says, "YO, B, does Chael have the toughest schedule of all time? I know RDA is in the convo, but dang, Maia, Nate Marquardt, Anderson twice, Bisping, Jon Jones, Shogun, Tito, Wanderlei, Rampage, Fedor, Machida." Yeah, pretty good.

That's why Chael's Chael, right? Um, yeah, but the, the other thing too is that's what it was back in the day.

The best fought the best.

No, come on, you're smarter than this.

Who is that? Who said that? Who said that? Timothy Cops, you know ball too.

You're telling me that Islam has a better resume than Jens Pulver, Carlo Uno, Din Thomas, uh, Matt Serra, Gomi in his prime, Matt Hughes, Duane Ludwig, uh, Lyoto Machida.

Ever heard of him? Uh, Renzo Gracie, George St-Pierre, Matt Hughes, Jens Pulver again, Joe Stevenson in his prime, Sean Sherk in his prime, GSP in his prime, Kenny Florian in his prime, Diego Sanchez in his prime, Frankie Edgar twice, Matt Hughes again, John Fitch, Nick Diaz, Rory MacDonald, Frankie Edgar, Yair Rodriguez.

So I fought for 12 and 12, and then 14 and 14.

Then I main evented against Machida, uh, and made 25 and 25 plus a 25 grand main event bonus.

How great was it to get those bonuses?

Ah, dude, it was fucking awesome.

Did you know that, Diego?

BJ Penn one time fought Lyoto Machida.

Did you know that?

Yeah, I know, I know, I know.

He doesn't wanna see you right now.

Oh, when I up the Lyoto Machida where just-

Yeah.

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... uh, Shogun refused, and Shogun was one, one of the baddest people ever.

Machida said no.

You said yes.

You turned up, and Jones backed down to you.