Only join date, I've been lurking. If you don't think UFC, Conor, and Nate don't want to save this fight as their last resort if things don't work out, then you are slow. It's the biggest money fight for all of them and they would all be stupid to jeopardize that. Conor and Nate have no problem waiting for the bigger money fights, because the prize in the end is bigger than just taking any random fight to fill up the time in between.
Think a little harder then. The Diaz bros duck every wrestler and better grappler. Always get paired against with strikers and only fight rarely because they duck so much. And they still have losing ufc records
Like Nick Diaz beating an undersized BJ Penn and earning a title, then losing but receiving another one immediately?
This seems obviously to be his last fight in the UFC so he can cash out later, agreed. He and Conor can probably do a boxing match and co-promote it and crush it. Conor needs to get out of his contract also, but he might be close also.
Nate is slow now.
What??? He would never go to Bellator for real money.
That was the fight to make tho, there is history between the two, years of trash talk (Masvidal / Edward), they hate each other and that's the fight hardcore (and I'd venture to say even some casuals) want to see. Yet it took months and months to get this fight traction, now they're fighting because well there is no better fight that'd get them to the belt. Mas made it clear he want the quickest path to the belt, and Edward's TS is overdue, but still uncertain.
