accurate machida returned to his native brazil to face phil davis on august at ufc in a unanimous decision davis defeated machida this caused controversy among many mma fans in one sample of media outlets scored the bout in favor of machida espn scored it for davis davis had takedowns near the end of rounds one and two and some moderate gnp which formed the only significant offense of the fight many ufc affiliate bloggers and also scored the fight in favor of machida ufc promoter dana white stated shortly after the fight that he had machida winning all three rounds and later told yahoo sports that machida definitely won and mma judging sucks fightmetric analysis shows davis struck machida more times espn released a similar analysis tracking each fighter's activity in each category and reporting the victory scored by the three judges at ringside