Just ask anyone he has faced to date. Machida is excellent in the clinch. But he will get thrown by Jones from that position. Once he throws him, Jones should use his amazing ground control to keep the Brazilian on his back. Forget submissions because Machida is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt.
Jones wants no part of that game. It should be all ground and pound all day. Jones can win by decision or stoppage that way. Not by a mile. As written above, I think he has one of the most awkward, difficult to solve styles in the sport.
Machida stands with his shoulders perpendicular to his opponent, which is a traditional Karate stance, with his weight well behind his center point and his upper body noticeably leaning toward his back foot.
That is all designed to make him difficult to hit, not to maximize his ability to strike. Not in the traditional sense, at least. He instead uses his stance to feint in exaggerated form from a safe distance. He uses quick jab steps and sudden exaggerated shoulder movements in very herky-jerky movements to set the distance and pace of the fight.
He wants an opponent to react to those movements by covering up or starting a counter. If he gets no reaction, Machida will throw the occasional lead high kick on the end of one of those jab steps or he may sprint in briefly with piston-like punches, never more than two or three at a time.
Neither attack is overly dangerous, nor are they meant to be. The progression of feints and the occasional strikes are designed to accomplish two goals.
First and foremost, he wants to set up his money move, which is leading with a kick to the body followed immediately by a short straight left. Machida caught Rashad Evans with that kick-punch combination late in the first round and dropped him. The other goal is to tempt his foe to throw tentative one-strike counters that he can counter back. Hesitation is disastrous against a laser-sharp counterstriker like Machida.
Machida has seriously underrated power. His knockout wins over Thiago Silva , Randy Couture and Evans vividly demonstrate that he is a killer on the feet, when he wants to be.
But again, he is not a slugger. I was just waiting for the right time," said Machida. Jones may not be invincible, but as of now, he seems virtually unstoppable in the light heavyweight division. Despite being stopped the earliest, Machida came the closest out of all three in figuring out a way to deal with Jones' otherworldly abilities.
Looking back, there are things "The Dragon" admits he would do differently. The tide turned completely in the fight when Jones secured a takedown in the second round and opened up a nasty gash on Machida's forehead with a well-placed elbow.
I was entitled to it, but [I didn't give myself enough time to come back]. When you think of Jones vs. Machida, the last thing that comes to your mind is power. But it should not be overlooked in this fight, as it will play a big factor.
Jon Jones has yet to show that he has that big power to knock someone out with one punch but we must remember that he is still young and he did rock Rampage in their fight. Machida, on the other hand, has the power to finish Jones.
If he can sneak a punch through and land it on Jones's chin, Machida could win this fight. Jon Jones is athletically fast, but Machida is both athletically fast and technically fast.
There is a big difference, and it could be the difference in this fight. Jon Jones is able to move and throw punches at a very high speed, which is why he's been able to beat his opponents. But, when looking at his opponents, they've all been pretty slow. Rampage, Shogun, Bader, Hammill, Matsyushenko, and even Vera, are all either slow or have definitely lost a step in their careers. Machida will not have this big disadvantage. Lyoto has blended his athleticism and his technique together to make himself faster in the octagon, something Jon Jones is still working on i.
This could be the deciding factor in their fight. While Lyoto Machida is known primarily for his striking, he doesn't get enough credit for his grappling.
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