FOX Fight Game: Talkin Machida, Serra, and Edgar

May 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Check out the kicking studio set for this week’s Fox Fight Game. Sweet job Straka. This week we break down Machida’s crushing victory over Rashad Evans and why the judges may have given Matt Serra raw a deal in his loss to Matt Hughes. In round 2, Frankie Edgar joins us on set to discuss his dominating win over Sean Sherk.

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1 Hacksaw // Jun 3, 2009 at 4:43 am

It’s great to see a major news outlet like Fox giving MMA some time and space, even if it is only online.

What do you guys think about this trend of high caliber wrestlers abandoning their offensive wrestling games?

Sean Sherk was at a huge disadvantage standing with Edgar because of his reach. Sherk has good technical striking but we’ve seen him come up short while throwing power strikes against both Penn and Edgar. In both fights Sherk abandoned his wrestling and lost boxing matches.

Rashad Evans seemingly did the same thing against Machida. I know Machida is not easy to take down, and Edgar is a world class wrestler in his own right, but Evans needed to incorporate his offensive wrestling with his striking to have a chance against Lyoto.

Frankie Edgar had the perfect strategy. He was ready to use his wrestling, and he let Sherk know it. As the fight went on, he knew that he could win the fight by sprawling and brawling, but Sherk didn’t even make him work that hard.

Off The Cuff... Edgar VS. Alvarez!

In early May, I was down at Almeida BJJ to shoot and produce a feature on Frankie Edgar tied to his photo shoot for FIGHT! magazine. That video will be on Fightmagazine.com soon. While working, I was lucky to witness one of the great sparring sessions in my day. Edgar was going toe-to-toe with Eddie Alvarez who was one week out from his fight V. Josh Neer. Now, I have known Frankie for some time, so I might be biased but he did seem to control the action. Standing, his fast hands and feet allowed him to get off first much like we saw against BJ and Sherk. Each man got a couple takedowns but the overall pace and forward movement seemed slightly in favor of Edgar. Now, in Eddie's defense, he may have been only seeking to work on one element of his game V. Edgar and only trying to react or setup something only he knew of, specific to the Josh Neer fight ... so in that respect, it was not a true test of each fighting the other under the same context. That said, there was not really anything off limits - it was vicious jab/right combos from Frankie followed, at one point, by a head over heel body-throw take-down from Eddie on Frankie ... neither giving an inch. It felt like the real thing minus the the bright lights and octagon. It seemed to get harsh a couple of times but that may have just been my read. In the end, hard core sparring at play. Two of the top-5 lightweights on the planet going after each other at 110% on a lazy Thursday morning in Hamilton, NJ. After the session, what did Edgar do... relax-no, he went to use a chainsaw and chop down small trees in a friend's backyard for three hours.