LOS ANGELES – As the old saying goes in mixed martial arts, nobody stays unbeaten forever.
For UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida (16-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC), that saying just doesn’t yet apply.
Machida went 25 minutes with former PRIDE superstar Mauricio “Shogun” Rua
(18-4 MMA, 2-2 UFC) in the main event of Saturday’s “UFC 104: Machida
vs. Rua” event at Staples Center in Los Angeles, and while the crowd in
attendance felt the resurgent challenger had patiently outstruck his
way to the belt, the three cageside judges felt differently.