Machida: Once you lose, no one wants to know you
Guilherme Cruz: Do you believe that becoming more aggressive is the way for winning again? Lyoto Machida: It’s hard to say……
Guilherme Cruz: Do you believe that becoming more aggressive is the way for winning again?
Lyoto Machida: It’s hard to say… People sometimes want something and it’s not always possible. St. Pierre plays by the rules all the time because he knows that, once you’re losing, nobody wants to know about you anymore. It’s great to do a great show, but you can’t do both sometimes. Sometimes you only have two chances of beating that opponent, so it’s best to keep a strategic fight and try to win because the level of the sport is so high. The other guy ain’t silly, he’s also trained. I can’t say ok, let’s begin to exchange and see where it goes. We want to give fight and give people a good show, but you have to play on a safety zone. Anderson Silva himself, in some of the fights he’s been doing, he does it to win, because he knows the consequences of the losses. We’re not playing an amateur sport.
GC: You game style, of counter attacking, is hard to be evaluated on MMA because of UFC’s type of scoring. Do you agree with it?
LM: On their criteria it can be a bad thing for me, but in any other fighting sport, whether it’s Boxing or Muay Thai, there’s no such thing. The guy that attacks and the one that counter attacks have their credits, their shots. Where is there any good on walking forwards for five minutes and being hit 20 times? Only because you moved forwards it doesn’t mean you were effective. Sometimes it’s the wrong criteria to be used.