machida returned to his native brazil to face phil davis on august at ufc in a unanimous result davis defeated machida via decision of ufc media outlets scored the bout in favor of machida davis had takedowns near the end of rounds one and two after neither fighter was able to mount any significant offense davis mounted significant offense as it won him the fight espn scored for davis many ufc shills with hall passes that could be taken away and votes on the ufc rankings but zero in the way of journalistic credentials of any discernible pedigree in journalism scored the fight in favor of machida ufc promoter sport hater and just bleed advocate 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 supports this showing that machida outstruck phil davis and neutralized of davis' takedown attempts with a significantly higher efficiency rating through all three rounds espn released a similar analysis tracking each fighter's activity in each category and reporting the victory for davis theres the truth i challenge any man woman or trans to dispute one word of it wikilies has taken the place of a once great outlet for truth