Mike Brown’s WEC 41 Blog Part 8
May 26, 2009 by Scott Wharton
Filed under MMA-UFC
I guess I’ve missed a couple of these in the past week. Mike Brown has been both busy training and blogging. Just a few weeks away from his 2nd title defense and rematch against Urijah Faber and Brown still seems to be in good spirits. That’s kind of what we expect from a professional fighter and champion. In this blog, which was written last Thursday, Mike said that if he had to take an educated guess who would win the Light-Heavyweight title that it would be Machida, and he was right.
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For what it’s worth, I’m taking Machida. He’s just so tough to hit and hard to deal with. He bounces around, gets in and out quickly, and is really effective by simply throwing one strike at a time. It’s literally one punch and he’s out. I’m not taking anything away from Rashad, but my gut says Lyoto win will the title.
It’s kind of the same thing everyone else says when they describe how Machida fights but is there really any other way to? That’s what he does and that’s what he did. In and out and when the time comes to unload and follow through with combo’s, that’s what he does.
After UFC 98, I’m sure the MMA world will be looking forward to my fight with Urijah. I can’t begin to tell you how bad I wish we could fight today. Training is so tiring and I’m at the point where I just want to fight now. That’s how I always feel at this point in camp. I’ve paid my dues in the gym, sparred a ton of rounds, and grappled for days on end. Now, I just want to get down to business.
It sounds like Brown is ready to get in the octogon and get this over with. I don’t think this time around it’s going to be as quickly as the last time, but we’ll see. It’s not as if either fighter are taking things lightly. Both of them has the drive and heart to go in there and give everything they’ve got an much more.
He also says that he’s been watching a lot of tapes of Faber fighting. It kind of makes you wonder if that really does any good as Faber can be so unpredictable in his unorthodox style. As explosive as he is, it’s tough to predict and telegraph his every move. It’s going to be a barn-burner!
Read the rest of Mike Browns Blog at WEC.TV.
