On Saturday October 24th UFC 104 was held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. It was a title fight for light heavyweight between the title holder Machida and contender Rua. The fight lasted all five five minute rounds and went to the judges for decision. The judges all had the cards in favor for Machida despite the fact that everyone else including Dana White (UFC president) thought that Rua had won the fight. When they announced Machida as the winner the whole staples center was filled with boos from the crowd and Rua recieved nothing but cheers from the crowd. This decision begs to ask the question of how much hype of how good Machida was and how he had the least hits ever taken by any UFC fighter and how he was the best and so forth got into the heads of the judges. Sometime when you are told something over and over you start to believe it. Could that have been the case here?
UFC 104 predetermined victor?
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