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I randomly started watching old Nate Diaz fights the other day, and I literally just finished watching the Rory one.
My memory of this fight was a one-sided beatdown from Rory, with a whole load of German-Suplexes. I rewatched it and my god, that was not how the fight went at all...
Don't get me wrong, Rory won the fight, but it wasn't a 30-26 like 2 judges had it. You could even give Nate a round in this fight, and he actually statistically outstruck Rory 72-60.
Nate showed really good takedown defense for the majority of the fight. Fightmetric has Rory scored with a total of 7 takedowns, 3 of which were in the first 2 rounds - which I think is ludicrous. I don't even know what counts as a takedown anymore.
Rory is a huge Welterweight, and it just shows the difference weight classes make, and it's funny how everyone tries to call Nate a Welterweight in disguise. It really took until the 3rd round for there to be a noticable difference in class, Nate actually tried his own takedowns and cage work for the entire fight.
My point within the post is more so around how fights are so different when watching back. We've all watched thousands of fights, and trying to remember every detail is tough, so instead we come up with just a basic description of how it went. Everyone says "Rory threw Nate around", yes in the 3rd round - before that, it had been close. The idea there was a 10-8 in this fight is just astonishing to me.
Moral of the story - don't forget the fights, don't create your own narrative...
My memory of this fight was a one-sided beatdown from Rory, with a whole load of German-Suplexes. I rewatched it and my god, that was not how the fight went at all...
Don't get me wrong, Rory won the fight, but it wasn't a 30-26 like 2 judges had it. You could even give Nate a round in this fight, and he actually statistically outstruck Rory 72-60.
Nate showed really good takedown defense for the majority of the fight. Fightmetric has Rory scored with a total of 7 takedowns, 3 of which were in the first 2 rounds - which I think is ludicrous. I don't even know what counts as a takedown anymore.
Rory is a huge Welterweight, and it just shows the difference weight classes make, and it's funny how everyone tries to call Nate a Welterweight in disguise. It really took until the 3rd round for there to be a noticable difference in class, Nate actually tried his own takedowns and cage work for the entire fight.
My point within the post is more so around how fights are so different when watching back. We've all watched thousands of fights, and trying to remember every detail is tough, so instead we come up with just a basic description of how it went. Everyone says "Rory threw Nate around", yes in the 3rd round - before that, it had been close. The idea there was a 10-8 in this fight is just astonishing to me.
Moral of the story - don't forget the fights, don't create your own narrative...