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Only if he brings a baseball bat to the fight

like canseco?

That baseball bat better be at least 6 feet long if you want to hit Machida!

There is a way, it’s just very unlikely.

No, the Rampage huggers will just say that the normal Rampage didn’t showup, is getting old, and anyother excuse they can come up with. I like Rampage a lot, but I see it going down similar to the Machida/Evans fight.

I see it even more similar to the Machida/Thiago Silva fight. Good night, Lucy…

there’s no one in the LHW division that’s just gonna walk through rampage!! he’s been at the top of the food chain a lot longer than machida has. he’s fought a who’s who in ufc and pride, and is still improving. keep in mind he didn’t get beat out of his belt, he got outpointed and arguably robbed of it. no LHW in the ufc can be comfortable as the champ until they beat Rampage. people talk about machida not getting his face messed up, when was the last time u saw rampage’s face messed up in the ufc??

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt, Deuce.

It’s the Nile Confucius!

that’s original. i know lyoto’s got talent, but why all the hype all of a sudden?? who’s he beat?? no one in the ufc other than a talented, but young rashad who’s never dealt with adversity and defeat until now. and please don’t say rich franklin, lol, the ufc fed that guy cans for years to pump up his image. bj penn, who he outweighed by probably 20-30 lbs. put machida to the grindstone, give him say, rampage, shogun, griffin, jardine, in no particular order, he gets through all them, i’m on his nuts right along with u

Duece, dont argue with these trolls. a week ago, all they did was Bash Machida and talk about how Rashad was going to take his head off….Now all of the sudden, he is just going to walk through everyone!

duece. the 1st sentence of your post tells it all: “NO one in the LHW division is going to walk through Rampage”….Totally FOCKING agree Man! Machida might win the fight, but he is actually going to be tested in the process. I wont be the least bit surprised if Rampage beats him, but on the other hand, Lyoto is more then capable of getting the win also. Guarentee that Lyoto cant FINISH Page, and this is coming from an actual die Hard Machida fan thats been supporting Lyoto way before Sunday Morning, unlike 80% OF YOU!!!! If Rampage wins, it will be by Ko. If Machida wins it will be by Decision.

All I know, is that its going to be a very entertaining, and competitive fight!

i appreciate machida more as a fighter with his last 2 finishes but theres not way hes taking out my boy rampage. if hes smart hell take lyoto down(HE WILL) and pound him out, if he strikes with him he can still catch machida but machida will have the advantage in the standup. if knees on the ground were involved rampage would win hands down.

WAR RAMPAGE

I am not sure that wrestling him down is the best way to fight machida. Rashad and Tito are 2 damn good wrestlers. I think Rampage can win, but if I had to bet my money would go on Machida. I just think that Machida is a better all around fighter. He has the edge in BJJ, striking (not boxing), defense, and speed.

Rampage has been my favorite fighter since the Arona slam. However, for the past year now I have been saying that once Machida gets the belt around his waist, he wont be letting it go any time soon. He’s the 205’s version of Fedor, Anderson, GSP, or BJ. It would be the happiest day of my life if Rampage can beat Machida, but the only way I see that happening is if he can manage to get close enough to clip Machida and take him out with one punch. For the most part, that will be pretty much impossible with Rampages current fighting style, he likes to press forward and look for the big KO, which meshes perfectly with MAchida’s counter style. Can Rampage catch him? Hells yes, as long as he learns to be patient he can do it, hell Rashad got a punch in there durring one of the flurries, thats all it will take for Rampage to end it. It’s just a matter of patience, and when the opening comes, don’t fuckin’ miss! lol

Rampage has one way to win this fight, and one way only. A 1 punch KO. Machida has yet to lost a around in about 5 years. Rampage got beat via decision to Forrest Griffin. Why? Because Rampage got frustrated (yeah he tweaked his knee too, but he was FRUSTRATED). If he got frustrated fighting Forrest, he head is going to implode and he is going to go all “Rampage” and run in swinging or just sit back confused as heck.

Fighting is also a mental game. As far as their “mentals” go, Machida is at infinity and Rampage is subzero.

I am a known Machida nut-hugger / urnie-sipper for quite some time now. If someone think not, please refer to the archives.

I LOVE the name Dragon Wagon. Mad props Eddie!!!! That is a name that will stick! Unfortunately, that is about the only thing that sticks to Machida (well, that and the championship belt)

I hereby consider myself the conductor of the Dragon Wagon (TM’d by Eddie) and will NEVER leave, even if he loses 4 fights in a row and needs to beg Gary Shaw to get him a fight somewhere. I am on it till the end.

ALL ABOOOOAAARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(PS, heck, I am still a huge Leben fan, so trust me, I ain’t going no where; not saying Leben is champ or unbeatble, just saying, I don’t jump ship cuz my man lost)

I dont think that the Dragon bandwagon or Dragon wagon was new VM.Iknow that i use that term a few times before and John also!You can go check it on other treads!
But it’s a good name though!
Sorry Eddie for that!

Not saying that I am just aboard now, I am actually possibly the first on here that appreciated his style, at least one of. There were a few karate aces that came out of the woodwork after the Hoger fight.

But that was the fist time I saw the term “Dragon Wagon” and thought it was clever. Props to whomever coined it.

Two names that are commonly used that I coined are

Huggie Bear for Clay Guida, and I see it in full effect in his new thread today.

Charles “Tupperware” McCarthy – because he was a couple steps below a can.

However, and thank goodness, we haven’t heard much from him for a while.

Dragon Wagon does sound good. It has a nice ring to it. But I unfortunately will not be on that Wagon during the next LHW title match. I am going to be howling like the wolf. And jamming to “Can’t Be Touched” by Roy Jones Jr.

Don’t worries guys!Page’s will end that Dragon fever real soon!