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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
"In fact I was out of the fight at the very end of the first round. I think I took a blow to the neck, something like that, I felt an impact. From there, I was really dizzy, I started to see things differently. I did not have enough time to recover for the second round and came back that way. I really couldn't remember, I only remembered it a few moments afterwards. I was no longer able to hear anything there. The second round I fought on automatic."
-Lyoto Machida talks to Combate.com about going into the second round in his loss to Luke Rockhold last weekend at UFC on Fox 15.
Penick's Analysis: Corners never stop these types of fights for their fighter before more damage gets done, but that's something that should change. Machida was clearly in bad shape after the first round, and it wouldn't have been wrong for his corner or cageside doctors to have called a stop to things before they hit the second. He looked out on his feet as that round began, he was very likely concussed, and he wound up taking a lot more damage in that frame because of it. There simply wasn't any coming back after that first round, not the way Rockhold was fighting, and the state Machida was in allowed Rockhold to hurt him further before scoring that submission win.
[Lyoto Machida art by Grant Gould (c) MMATorch.com]
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