"Sweep The Leg..."

KEEEEYYYAAAAIIIIIII!!!!!!!!

About time a Karate practitioner and tactioner finally won a major UFC event as Lyoto Machida defeated Rashad Evans last night to capture the undisputed light heavyweight honors of the Octagon.

Communication lines to HQ were lit up today as various Maniwaki MMA compadres tipped me off to the upset.

Of which, after viewing, I like everyone was pretty impressed.

Having trained for many years myself, I had always wondered why not more students of the empty hand were not involved in the upper echelons of the UFC. Was it the inherent ring mentality of Muay Thai that served as the major gateway to the Octagon bringing over the seeming legions of hand wrapped Books?

Possibly. But unlike many martial arts practitioners that I often encounter on the film and telly sets, I refused to believe that it was because the style was inefficient or substandard like they often puff up about. On the complete contrary. Karate is an incredibly quick, brutal and ultimately efficient style. To see Machida utilize it effectively to hoist the belt definitely put some extra snap in dogis everywhere I'm certain.