FanHouse Mike Goldberg

The light heavyweight division is the most talented weight class in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, but after watching Lyoto Machida dominate Rashad Evans for the title Saturday night at UFC 98, I'm having a very hard time seeing how anyone is going to beat him any time soon.

That might sound like a crazy thing to say, because upsets happen all the time in mixed martial arts, and the light heavyweight title has changed hands four times in the last two years. But the fundamental way to win a fight is to hurt your opponent without getting hurt yourself, and there's no one better at that than Machida.

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Video games have come a long way since the days of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, when playing a boxing game was as simple as pressing one button to control the right hand and another button to control the left. But for all the advances video games have made, how could they even begin to represent the virtually limitless possibilities in mixed martial arts?