There is no "karate" in Machida

Now that Machida unofficially lost, it turns out that Karate is not back (or it was only back for a while and then gone again, I don't know!). Vitor Belfort will have to toss his blue belt in Karate and start training in whatever style that this Shogun guy trains in.

Why not? didn't Machida's success at the UFC highlighted by wins over Thiago Silva and Rashad Evans mark the "return" of Karate?

No if you ask me, the way that Machida fights is not the way regular Karatekas fight. It certainly is not Karate.

He deserves a shot at the title, not a shot at the Spider

While the UFC didn't do right by Henderson promising him with a shot after shot at Silva only to break their promise each time. What they did wrong was the promising itself not the fact that they didn't give him the title shot.

The MMA chess match of the year

You know that cliché "It's gonna be a chess match" that a lot of fighters used in pre-fight interviews, only to make it more of a cliché (Anderson Silva for instance used it a lot where he should have gone with "it's gonna be a massacre").

The closest we came to chess matches was with fighters like Randy Couture and GSP where their opponents seemed to have come to play checkers (sorry, but I couldn't resist!!). Ben Henderson vs Donald Cerrone was the real thing.