According to Lyoto Machida (here) he was superior to Shogun at UFC 104. According to Machida, he was superior but I just watched that fight over with the sound off as he suggested, and he had to change stance at 2:32 of round 2 because his front leg was hurt so badly and at the end of the fight he was wincing in pain from the repeated damage he took. Machida had one flurry where Shogun was backing up and taking damage, but that was in the 3rd round and lasted 20 seconds and then went on to take 7 unanswered leg kicks at the end of the round.
In fact, Herb Dean should have warned and then deducted a point from Lyoto for each round where he violated Rule 29 of the UFC's own rules:
"29. Timidity, including, without limitation, avoiding contact with an opponent, intentionally "
He ran away the whole fight. Had he not been the champion, he would have had a much lower score based on that alone. You can't run away the whole fight and call it "counter punching". I predict Shogun will eat him alive next time.
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