Still at , the karate and black belt Jiu-Jitsu fighter Lyoto Machida talked with exclusivity with TATAME’s site about his beautiful victory by submission over the african fighter Thierry Sokodjou on UFC 79, in Las Vegas, . With four victories in a roll on the american cage, Lyoto waits soon for the opportunity to fight for the UFC belt and showed the interest in fighting with Chuck Liddell. “I would like to fight with Chuck. It would be a exchanging fight, standing up all time, but who will decide this is the event”, said Lyoto in a interview that you will check on the next week.

IS HE ****ING CRAZY!?!?!? HE DONT WANT IT WITH THE ICEMAN! CHUCK WOULD KNOCK THAT SLUT ALL OVER THE OCTAGON.


Seriously Machida has a boring style. Me not like him cos me thinks Karate is BULL****!!!!!

I think it would make a boring fight, both waiting for the counter strike for 3 rounds.

Here is a interview with Hackleman.


John Hackleman talks Liddell win, possible Machida fight and more

"Everything was perfect; absolutely perfect. I actually had a lot of help this fight. We had a wrestling coach come in, Sammy Henson, and he’s a silver medalist from the 2000 Olympics. He helped Chuck a lot. Glover Teixeira and Chuck actually came up with the takedown idea in the 3rd round. They constantly worked on that and Henson helped with it because he is really good at takedowns. All I had to do is tell Chuck when I thought he should do it and as soon as I told him to do it, he did it immediately and it worked. I had another guy, Eric, who was Chuck’s old college roommate and wrestling partner who was really pushing Chuck hard this fight. He was sparring with him every day, yelling at him and pushing him. Lighty was there as always and really the whole team. Everyone was there. They just helped me a lot more and pushed Chuck. Chuck really got pushed hard for this fight. This one was a big team effort."

"The gameplan I had for that fight was exactly what Wanderlei was going to do. Chuck’s right hand was working perfect in that fight and that’s the main thing we worked on, the jab and the right hand. We worked on a lot of counter left hooks, but they didn’t come into play because Wanderlei wasn’t rushing like he usually is. I told Chuck I didn’t think he was gonna. I saw that he hadn’t been doing it as much lately. He does it sporadically. He used to do it more often, but not it’s just sporadic, but he does have that powerful right hand so we had Chuck keep his left hand up in training a lot and that was probably the second most thing we did. It saved him from a lot of right hands. I think the main thing was the takedown, which was Glover and Chuck who came up with that and they even named it and I yelled it and Chuck hit it right away."

"If you watch the fight close, right before Chuck goes out for the third round, I tell him, “It’s time for the Ice Cliff.” He does it right away. I didn’t even come up with that one; that was all Glover and Chuck. I can’t take credit for it. If you notice though, I do give him water in between rounds."

PC: Machida recently called Chuck out saying he would like to fight him.

JH: Did he? He’s one of the least guys I would like to fight. Not for his toughness or anything. It’s just his style is so hard to prepare for. I knew he would beat “The African Assassin”. He was a 2-1 underdog and so was Chuck. Glover beat Sokoudjou before and I knew he was hype. He’s number 4 in the world. They had him 4 places before Chuck. My guy that knocked him out is not even in the top 20. You know who Machida is like? He’s so boring, but he’s like the Larry Holmes of MMA. He’ll ****ing beat everyone. Jimmy Young was like that too. Jimmy Young is the reason that Foreman retired and went to Jesus. He went into the locker room after that loss and said he saw a vision that he had to serve Jesus. He had to go to the hospital because he was dehydrated and he became a preacher and left boxing for like 12 years. He’s like a Jimmy Young type. Machida is a scary guy. He’s going to be a hard guy to beat.

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I think it would make a boring fight, both waiting for the counter strike for 3 rounds.

Yup. This is why Liddell-Silva was a great match.

This would be an interesting fight to see. Hope it happens down the line in 2008.