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Ryoto Machida: The unknown who has beaten Rich Franklin, B.J. Penn, and more...

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Posted by: BigDyl

and Stephan Bonar.

He's 8-0. When the hell will he join the UFC and own the middleweight class?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...21941886452328

Posted by: IainDaniel

Except Ryoto is a Heavyweight fighter compared to Franklin a middleweight.

Posted by: BigDyl

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Originally Posted by IainDaniel

Except Ryoto is a Heavyweight fighter compared to Franklin a middleweight.

Way to research son. Yeah, but he could easily drop to middleweight.

Posted by: viet_jon

Shit, that's a good fight. Nice KO

When the hell was that?

Posted by: bigss75

Forget him, bring back Mayhem!

Posted by: fufu

What a knee!

Posted by: TJ Cline

Great fight

Like I said before Rich Franklin is not very impressive

Posted by: ReproMan

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Originally Posted by ForemanRules

Great fight

Like I said before Rich Franklin is not very impressive

This fight was during Rich's run in the UFC (Dec. 2003), before he beat Shamrock and weak ass Evan Tanner (for the 2nd time) for the title.

I think he's a great all-around fighter, and perhaps the best conditioned in all of the UFC, but I have a feeling he's gonna get KO'd this weekend. He has a weak chin at best.

And I don't know how you can say Machida is unknown. Maybe to this forum.....

Posted by: Goodfella9783

Yeah Franklin's chin is suspect but I don't see him losing for a while. At least I hope. Silva/Leben was the first I saw of Silva but he looked pretty impressive. Anyone know what he can do on the ground? I won't be buying this fight because the undercard is terrible, so hopefully it's on youtube Sunday cause I'll just watch that without knowing the results.

Posted by: IainDaniel

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Originally Posted by BigDyl

Way to research son. Yeah, but he could easily drop to middleweight.

Thanks Pops!

Posted by: the nut

What were his weights when he fought Penn and Franklin???

Posted by: IainDaniel

Ryoto was nearly 220lbs against both Penn who is 175 if he is lucky and Rich Franklin 185.

At least Penn lasted the whole fight.

Posted by: Goodfella9783

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Originally Posted by IainDaniel

Ryoto was nearly 220lbs against both Penn who is 175 if he is lucky and Rich Franklin 185.

At least Penn lasted the whole fight.

So basically a heavyweight beat a middleweight. Not that impressive to me then.

Posted by: the nut

That's what I figured

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