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As far back as UFC on FOX 17 last December, Nate Diaz has already been preparing himself to face Conor McGregor.
As far back as UFC on FOX 17 last December, Nate Diaz has already been preparing himself to face Conor McGregor.
Nate Diaz is going back to welterweight to fight Conor McGregor.
That’s because Rafael dos Anjos broke his foot and was forced to withdraw from his “Notorious” title fight at the upcoming UFC 196 pay-per-view (PPV) event, which takes pl…
Nate Diaz is going back to welterweight to fight Conor McGregor.
That’s because Rafael dos Anjos broke his foot and was forced to withdraw from his “Notorious” title fight at the upcoming UFC 196 pay-per-view (PPV) event, which takes place on March 5, 2016 inside MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Cardio is always a concern when a fighter takes a bout on short notice (just ask this guy), but that should be a problem for Diaz, since he’s going to have an early night next month in “Sin City.”
That’s according to McGregor’s head coach, John Kavanagh (via The42.ie):
“You must be ready for every type of opponent. As for Nate, if you look at his last fight when he beat Michael Johnson by decision, Michael comes from a great team but he is quite new to striking, yet he still managed to land a lot of shots. Josh Thomson badly lit Nate up when they fought in 2013. The Diaz brothers are known for walking through shots but Nate doesn’t quite have Nick’s ability to absorb punishment. It’s a different ballgame when you face somebody who has been striking for their entire life, as opposed to a wrestler who’s still trying to develop their striking. I think it will be an early night for Nate.”
Diaz (18-10) was knocked out by “The Punk” at UFC on FOX 7.
The promotion has been accused of “fishy” matchmaking when it comes to the Diaz fight (by this former champion), as both Donald Cerrone and Anthony Pettis were available to compete at UFC 196, but were passed over in favor of Stockton’s finest.
Any chance Diaz will make Kavanagh — and a lot of other doubters — eat these words?
Joe Rogan recently gave his opinion on the Kimbo Slice vs. Dada 5000 fight from Bellator 149, and it’s caused a serious stir…. Kimbo Slice and Dada 5000 competed in the very ill fated Bellator 149 co-main event last week. The comical slug fest featured the two exhausted heavyweights swinging mostly at air, and finished
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Joe Rogan recently gave his opinion on the Kimbo Slice vs. Dada 5000 fight from Bellator 149, and it’s caused a serious stir….
Kimbo Slice and Dada 5000 competed in the very ill fated Bellator 149 co-main event last week. The comical slug fest featured the two exhausted heavyweights swinging mostly at air, and finished in highly pathetic fashion after Kimbo missed his ‘knockout’ punch by a country mile. The mixed martial arts community sighed at the circus act that was Kimbo/Dada, but it’s Bellator so we’ve come to expect this.
One person who was particularly tickled by the whole affair was Joe Rogan, who made some comments during an interview that have sparked some controversy. Check out what Rogan said about Dada 5000, and the fighter responding by blasting the UFC color commentator:
“Yea, his heart stopped. It was filled with cheeseburgers and fried chicken and orange soda. He didn’t train. There was no way he trained. I mean, he might have trained for a couple of days. You should have lost 40 pounds before. It’s not like you didn’t know you were going to do this. How about Kimbo? What the f**k was going on with him? That wasn’t even amateur hour. Really? If it was an amateur fight you’d be champing at the bit to fight those guys. ‘I hope they’re in my bracket.’
“All you have to do is dance around for a few minutes and they’re toast. How about that one exchange where Dada just lay down and Kimbo just rolled over on top of him. There was no takedown. I wonder if they were talking to each other. ‘You want to take this to the ground, homie?’”
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Former Bellator champion Alexander Volkov claimed the M-1 Global heavyweight title with a come-from-behind victory against Denis Smoldarev. Ahead of the highly anticipated main event between Alexander Shlemenko and Vyacheslav Vasilevsky, a …
Former Bellator champion Alexander Volkov claimed the M-1 Global heavyweight title with a come-from-behind victory against Denis Smoldarev.
Ahead of the highly anticipated main event between Alexander Shlemenko and Vyacheslav Vasilevsky, a heavyweight title fight between former Bellator champ Alexander Volkov and Denis Smoldarev took place in the co-main event slot.
The contest lasted the better part of three rounds and was a lopsided affair until Volkov managed to find an opening for a slick submission. With one fight left on his M-1 Global contract, it will be interesting to see if Volkov opts to stick around with the promotion or try his luck in the UFC like his predecessor, Marcin Tybura, did.
M-1 Global released the full fight video for the entire main event, which includes English commentary from UFC veteran Ian Freeman and BloodyElbow.com’s own Karim Zidan.
Frankie Edgar could’ve fought Conor McGregor at UFC 196, but injury kept him from doing so. However, the former lightweight champion is angry at Dana White for implying that he “refused” to fight McGregor on short notice.
The UFC had to make a major adjustment to its March 5th pay-per-view main event in Las Vegas. Plans for Rafael dos Anjos to defend his lightweight title against featherweight champ Conor McGregor had to be shelved due to dos Anjos’ broken foot, which resulted in a who’s who of fighters offering to take on “The Notorious” one on short notice. Ultimately, the UFC went with Nate Diaz to face McGregor in a welterweight bout.
On ESPN’s SportsCenter, Dana White said that Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar were both offered to fight McGregor (presumably at 155), but they both turned it down. These remarks didn’t sit well with Edgar, who wouldn’t have been able to fight due to an injury he’d been nursing. Edgar told MMA Fighting that he doubts he would’ve even gotten the call had he was healthy and said “yes”:
“I’m even more pissed that Dana’s insinuating that I ‘refused’ to take this fight, which is bullsh*t,” he said. “Just because they asked me doesn’t mean they were going to give it to me because guess what, in July they asked me to take the [UFC 189] fight on 15 day’s notice, which of course I accepted, and I still didn’t get it.
“I have a feeling that if I had said ‘yes,’ if Ali had texted back ‘yes,’ that fight still would have went to Nate Diaz. I think Nate Diaz was the fight they were trying to make since the beginning. From what I hear they contacted Nate even before they contacted me. But now Dana wants to go around saying that I ‘refused ‘to take this fight, and I don’t know if he’s going to try to use it against me in the future when another opportunity comes up where I can fight for the belt, and he’s going to say, ‘well, you had your opportunity and you said no.'”
Of course, Edgar, who is the presumptive #1 contender to fight for the featherweight belt after he knocked out Chad Mendes in December, isn’t keen on McGregor “holding up” his division by fighting for the lightweight title and now accepting a welterweight bout. He sees it as yet another example of the UFC’s Conor-centric business model.
“And this is what my team was pissed at,” Edgar said. “This dude, they were going to let this guy hold the 145-pound title, go up to 55, now two weight classes are being held up. And now they’re saying he’s going to go up to 70. This is a circus. The ‘C’ in UFC stands for Conor. This guy runs the show.”
Edgar also is somewhat suspicious of the UFC’s decision to pick Diaz over Donald Cerrone, who just fought on last Sunday night’s main event in Pittsburgh, and didn’t receive a medical suspension by the athletic commission.
“Why didn’t they go with Cowboy? Cowboy was fresh off a camp. He’s in shape, no injuries. They decide to go with a guy like Nate who can’t even make 155, so how much training has he been doing? I don’t understand why they picked the guy who’s probably not ready for the fight. Why not pick a guy like Cowboy who seems to be ready for it? It sounds fishy to me.”
As for Edgar’s health, he expects to recover from his torn groin injury in time to compete as early as May. Whether or not he’ll ever end up facing McGregor for the featherweight title remains to be seen, and he doesn’t think it’ll ever actually happen.
“I don’t think at 145,” he said. “I think maybe if I go to up to 155 or something. And that’s another thing. They’ve been telling me for years, we don’t want you to fight at 55, we don’t want you to fight at 155…but oh, you want to fight Conor McGregor on 10 days notice at 155? Sure, well go ahead, jump in. It’s ridiculous. If they believe in Conor so much, let me fight him at 145 and give me a full f*cking camp. And I know I’d take that belt home with me.
Frankie Edgar could’ve fought Conor McGregor at UFC 196, but injury kept him from doing so. However, the former lightweight champion is angry at Dana White for implying that he “refused” to fight McGregor on short notice.
The UFC had to make a major adjustment to its March 5th pay-per-view main event in Las Vegas. Plans for Rafael dos Anjos to defend his lightweight title against featherweight champ Conor McGregor had to be shelved due to dos Anjos’ broken foot, which resulted in a who’s who of fighters offering to take on “The Notorious” one on short notice. Ultimately, the UFC went with Nate Diaz to face McGregor in a welterweight bout.
On ESPN’s SportsCenter, Dana White said that Jose Aldo and Frankie Edgar were both offered to fight McGregor (presumably at 155), but they both turned it down. These remarks didn’t sit well with Edgar, who wouldn’t have been able to fight due to an injury he’d been nursing. Edgar told MMA Fighting that he doubts he would’ve even gotten the call had he was healthy and said “yes”:
“I’m even more pissed that Dana’s insinuating that I ‘refused’ to take this fight, which is bullsh*t,” he said. “Just because they asked me doesn’t mean they were going to give it to me because guess what, in July they asked me to take the [UFC 189] fight on 15 day’s notice, which of course I accepted, and I still didn’t get it.
“I have a feeling that if I had said ‘yes,’ if Ali had texted back ‘yes,’ that fight still would have went to Nate Diaz. I think Nate Diaz was the fight they were trying to make since the beginning. From what I hear they contacted Nate even before they contacted me. But now Dana wants to go around saying that I ‘refused ‘to take this fight, and I don’t know if he’s going to try to use it against me in the future when another opportunity comes up where I can fight for the belt, and he’s going to say, ‘well, you had your opportunity and you said no.'”
Of course, Edgar, who is the presumptive #1 contender to fight for the featherweight belt after he knocked out Chad Mendes in December, isn’t keen on McGregor “holding up” his division by fighting for the lightweight title and now accepting a welterweight bout. He sees it as yet another example of the UFC’s Conor-centric business model.
“And this is what my team was pissed at,” Edgar said. “This dude, they were going to let this guy hold the 145-pound title, go up to 55, now two weight classes are being held up. And now they’re saying he’s going to go up to 70. This is a circus. The ‘C’ in UFC stands for Conor. This guy runs the show.”
Edgar also is somewhat suspicious of the UFC’s decision to pick Diaz over Donald Cerrone, who just fought on last Sunday night’s main event in Pittsburgh, and didn’t receive a medical suspension by the athletic commission.
“Why didn’t they go with Cowboy? Cowboy was fresh off a camp. He’s in shape, no injuries. They decide to go with a guy like Nate who can’t even make 155, so how much training has he been doing? I don’t understand why they picked the guy who’s probably not ready for the fight. Why not pick a guy like Cowboy who seems to be ready for it? It sounds fishy to me.”
As for Edgar’s health, he expects to recover from his torn groin injury in time to compete as early as May. Whether or not he’ll ever end up facing McGregor for the featherweight title remains to be seen, and he doesn’t think it’ll ever actually happen.
“I don’t think at 145,” he said. “I think maybe if I go to up to 155 or something. And that’s another thing. They’ve been telling me for years, we don’t want you to fight at 55, we don’t want you to fight at 155…but oh, you want to fight Conor McGregor on 10 days notice at 155? Sure, well go ahead, jump in. It’s ridiculous. If they believe in Conor so much, let me fight him at 145 and give me a full f*cking camp. And I know I’d take that belt home with me.
This is gonna be fun.
Less than 24 hours after inking a welterweight main event between Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz (details), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will bring the trash-talking rivals together under one roof to help promote …
This is gonna be fun.
Less than 24 hours after inking a welterweight main event between Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz (details), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will bring the trash-talking rivals together under one roof to help promote the UFC 196 pay-per-view (PPV), taking place March 5, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The live press conference video stream kicks off today (Weds., Feb. 24, 2016) at 4 p.m. ET in the embedded video player above.
McGregor was originally expected to face Rafael dos Anjos for the Brazilian’s 155-pound strap; however, a late injury forced him from the card and paved the way for Diaz — complete with F-bombs — to step in on short notice. Also in attendance at today’s presser will be UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm, who makes her first title defense against perennial division contender Miesha Tate.
To see who else is fighting at UFC 196: “McGregor vs. Diaz” click here.