Lyoto Machida tells Thiago Silva “my technique is superior”

Published on: 10th November, 2008

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: Machida & Thiago talk fight

Thiago Silva’s back injury sometime before UFC 89 prevented a battle of 13-0 vs 13-0 fighters from taking place, against fellow Brazilian Lyoto Machida. The fight was delayed until UFC 94 at the end of January, on Super Bowl weekend as a co-main event along with the BJ Penn and Georges St.Pierre “Super fight”.

Now Tatame caught up with Thiago and Lyoto and had them interview each other about their upcoming bout at UFC 94.

Thiago Silva

Machida began the interview by asking Thiago if he thought he was a difficult fighter.

“You have your merits,”Thiago was quoted by Tatame responding to Lyoto. ”if you were a bad athlete you wouldn’t be where you are. You’re a top level opponent… I wouldn’t say difficult, but a top level one. It’ll be a fight of unbeatable”.

Silva also had a chance to asked Lyoto to predict their upcoming fight at UFC 94, and the confident Machida says he has the advantage.

“I think the fight will be the synthesis of the modern MMA, will have everything: takedowns, striking and I think we’ll do everything that exists in MMA, and the fight might be a stand up one. I consider you a tough guy, but I think my technique is superior”

Even though Silva vs Machida is still two months away it appears that the two fighters never lost focus off of each other since their mid-October bout was delayed by Silva’s injury. We look forward to seeing this bout as much as BJ Penn vs Georges St.Pierre’s bout at UFC 94. Now lets hope the other 5 UFC events in between can hold us over from now to then.

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Readers Comments

D_day347 says:

November 10, 2008 at 11:50 am D_day347(Quote)

That takes some balls to tell someone that to their face

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- Chopjudo says:
  
  November 10, 2008 at 11:53 am Chopjudo(Quote)
  
  @D_day347, Yeah Machida has a big pair to stand there and say that especially because he is very overrated Tito almost had the hypemachine over too.
  
  I hate whne people think he is the next Karate kid or some shit, I would love to see Anderson at LHW instead
  
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Fozziebear1 says:

November 10, 2008 at 11:51 am Fozziebear1(Quote)

Machida is better all around. I like Thiago but he is going to lose for the 1st time at UFC 94

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- Tbag420 says:
  
  November 10, 2008 at 11:51 am Tbag420(Quote)
  
  @Fozziebear1, You wont be saying that after he KOs Lyoto and gives him his first loss
  
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Fedor is legend says:

November 10, 2008 at 12:28 pm Fedor is legend(Quote)

This is probably the hardest fight to pick the ufc has left because of how good both of these two are

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- Chopjudo says:
  
  November 10, 2008 at 7:27 pm Chopjudo(Quote)
  
  @Fedor is legend, agreed it is very close but Machida is over rated he beat an old Tito, a young Rich, a young Bonner and a fat BJ Penn. So who has he really beaten that matters… NO ONE
  
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  - D_day347 says:
    
    November 10, 2008 at 7:28 pm D_day347(Quote)
    
    @Chopjudo, He beat Sokos ass pretty badly he even KTFO’d him and dominated him the whole fight it wasnt even close at all he exposed him badly
    
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cheezed says:

November 10, 2008 at 8:38 pm cheezed(Quote)

If Lyoto gets by Thiago and he gets a shot at the title I feel really bad for the champ if it’s still not Forrest

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- Shogun1a says:
  
  November 10, 2008 at 8:39 pm Shogun1a(Quote)
  
  @cheezed, Expect that title to change hands quite a few times if Machida doesn’t get a title shot
  
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- Marcus says:
  
  November 10, 2008 at 11:50 pm Marcus(Quote)
  
  @cheezed, Who ever it is wont hold it for more then 3 fights LHW is stacked and people are going to have a hard time holding on to that belt
  
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