But isn't their style similar? They both have the same high volume boxing + taunting attack and elite BJJ skills. But both are weak to wrestlers and don't check leg kicks!
Nick is better with his hands, he uses his jab better and mixes it up better with body shots and uppercuts, Nate usually does a 1,2,3 most of the time. Nate also doesn't move forward
as much as Nick, although Nate does push the pace for most of the fight, Nick has relentlessly walked his opponents down for his last 12 fights I believe.
IMO, he hasn't done that bad against wrestlers. He stuffed 17 of 19 TD's from Sherk, and Nick also got his own TD. The two TD's Sherk got on him Nick swept him and forced it back to the feet. More impressive that Sherk won a title in his next fight against Florian after a close fight against Nick, where Nick got the better of the grappling and landed 50 more punches.
Riggs only got 3 TD's on Nick, and shot a total 8 or 9 TD's at Nick, Nick also landed about 60 more punches in that fight as well and was pushing the pace for the entire fight. I think Nick has done alright against wrestlers, he had a hell of a fight with Sanchez and when Sanchez is in top position he's a monster, and this is all back before Nick was a black belt and was still in his early 20's, he also dropped Sanchez in the 3rd round with a punch. He's never really been straight up dominated by a wrestler IMO.
I'm not saying Nick would beat Bendo though, Bendo is tough as hell and good at everything. Nick definitely has the tools to beat Benson, but who knows if he would. Diaz's don't normally check the leg kicks, and Bendo kicks very, very hard. If Nick has the right gameplan to go in to watch out for kicks he could make it harder for Bendo, but until then we'd never know.
All I'm saying is Nick > Nate.
EDIT: I know Nick doesn't use kicks much, but he has decent kicks. Nate looks to strain when he throws kicks and Nick looks a lot more relaxed when he does them, based off of training videos it looks like Nate's high kicks aren't very good and he's forcing them, Nick holds his leg up in the air and does all this shit. But Nick doesn't use them that often, IMO if he did he would be more dangerous but he taunts with kicks instead of actually using them.
Sorry for the long post.
