Nick needs to stay at 170 and Nate needs to be at 155
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yeah it was strange, he did look gassed though, he looked gassed after round 2, and at first i thought he was grabbing his knee, then i heard someone say his nose is broken, and some say he just quit, so either way its not a good look, but he seemed more mad about the match up then anything.
its not strange dude...
he was there to get a paycheck
realized at some point he wasn't gonna win and decided he took enough damage.
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Yeah i mean their fights are always exciting so its not like im going to get a boring 5 round UD, and im sure if he doesnt take too much time off, and gets in shape to make 170 he would look better out there vs another fun match up that isnt vs the top guy in the world. Im not trying to say hes going to compete for the belt, but i think there can be some fun match ups for him still, its not like hes 40+, hes got a few years imo if he takes it a bit more serious.
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probably, i mean he looked fatISH out there and really bulky at that weight and just odd, but again, hes 6 years away from the sport, im not really sure what some people expected, he won round 1, so its not like he got destroyed out there, he probably just gassed out, looked like he slowed down a lot and got cracked on the nose which some said its broken, so if he has a broken nose and didnt want to fight with it cuz he knew he was gona get hit 300 more times i can understand that point, but even if its not broken and he just quit cuz he was gassed and was going to lose anyways, i think giving a guy a pass after 6 years isnt the most egregious thing in the world.
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His performance just really worried me. There’s a lot of things I can look past, looking like you’ve never been an athlete a day in your life when your a legend of the sport? That scares me.
Really don’t want to see him get killed in there.
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lets be honest, neither one of the Diaz bros are the best athletes, like they had cardio in their prime/younger day's but aside from that its not like they were going to win a long jump competition or have a 6 pack of abs and are super shredded dancing in and out with strikes, they were more zombie like throwing punches in bunches that were weaker strikes mixed in with some power shots with almost no leg kicks and thats pretty much what we saw tonight, just in a much worse version. With that said, Nick did win the 1st round and threw like 100+ strikes, its not like he got killed out there like some people make it out to be.
Honestly, he looked like an aging fighter not being in the sport for 6 years and having trouble making weight, he looked just like that. He was pretty accurate, he landed some shots, won a round, but gassed out and lost, ive seen a lot worse tbh.
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If he had covid, or an injury, who knows, only he could go public with it.
Either way, he didn't look like he had a fight camp and he was probably 195lbs in there or more.
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Nick needs to stay away and Nate needs to go to bellator where he'd be a solid 5-10 guy
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im willing to see Nick 1 more time as long as its not followed by a long layoff, i think if he can put in the work to make 170 and have proper cardio he can make 3 rounds work.
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I hope you're right! The guy is fun to watch
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To me, he didn’t get killed because he’s fighting another guy that needs to call it a career. Nick shouldn’t be in there with anyone else. He looked iceman in the third fight with Ortiz level of slow and unathletic
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Nick needs to retire and Nate needs the 3rd Conor fight to get that big payday then retire.
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it depends, at first he looked like he was grabbing his knee before the stoppage so i thought his knee was messed up, then it was stated his nose is broken which gets u finished basically when you get hit on it as Nick has and would have many more times, but ultimately yeah if he was just gassed and quit then yeah, like i said, its not a big issue, i think him losing was to be expected, and IMO i would like to see him fight again and use this fight as a welcome back to MMA type of thing, obv if a guy cant make his weight he isnt in good shape, and he looked bulky out there which didnt help.
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yeah agreed, but lets not act like Nick got blown out of the water, that only happened when he was gassed, which isnt a normal thing when it comes to Diaz brothers. I would like to see him in better shape and see how he looks then, im shocked how ppl arent giving him a pass at all for not being active in 6 years... kinda wild to me, what did u all expect? Hes 38 and hasnt fought in 6 years, this outcome couldnt have been too far from realistic expectations.
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It doesn’t depend.
He went down from a punch, Lawler told him to stand up and fight him like a man, Diaz stayed down, the ref tried to stand him up and he refused to do so.
There isn’t a more clear case of quitting in any combat sports fight ever.
Perhaps Roberto Duran saying “No Mas”.
