Sentences with phrase «fight nate»

Also Alvarez because he won his last fight and for some stupid reason did not fight Poirer, is kind of without an opponent and wants to fight Nate because it is good for him... Eddie Alvarez knows his next fight will be on a undercard of someone so why not try Nate?

... so the UFC to get Conor back to two belt titles won't strip him of the LW title but they'll let him fight Nate for the Interim Title.

And although there's no official word from the UFC (yet), McGregor now says he will fight Nate Diaz at UFC 200.

Conor can challenge Tony if he doesn't get to duck another title fight by fighting Nate.

Not exact matches

Before a March loss to Nate Diaz, Irish featherweight McGregor had won 15 fights in a row, with the last six ending in TKO.

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So when I had the opportunity to review Fight Church (created by the same team that made the thoughtful, well - produced documentary Holy Rollers about a group of card - counting Christians), I asked my friend Nate Pyle for his take on the topic.

from where i'm sitting, conor's strengths: - long and athletic - great power in his hands and feet - throws with speed & accuracy - uses all 8 points of contact (and uses them all in multiple ways)- uses good footwork to circle away from power shots and to control pace / location of fight - has shown good to great TD defense (until tired)- has good chin (tested several times and the proof appears to be in the pudding, as they say)- displays good head movement which allows him to absorb fewer strikes while within range - excellent counter puncher (able to get in and out fast using his karate style stance)- has shown better conditioning at lw than fw or ww - has incredible fight iq (lone exception in the ufc was against nate in first fight when he was clearly fatigued)

i want to see him keep doing what he's doing in mma just so i can see for myself if he can be beaten more convincingly if anyone is able to weather his early storm the way Nate did in their first fight.

Thats like looking backwards to him, if not a money fight vs Nate / GSP I think he'd rather go after WW belt for more history.

unfortunately there is a bigger chance Nate Diaz fight some contenders for free than Conor ever fighting Khabib in Russia.

If nothing else its not a good look for UFC brass, people want to see Nate fight and nobody gives a shit if the UFC has to pay him more than they want to.

And don't speak for everyone, I haven't watched him fight since the first Nate fight, I don't care if he ever comes back.

Combine the slobber knocker punches he received from PBF, with Nate's two fights worth along with whatever he collects if he elects to continue his career and you have a decent chance he will be Shaky McShakerson at 60.

There was nothing to salvage from that fight for Nate, he got kicked in the dome and lost, bad.

I skip his fights, he hasn't gotten a dime from me since the first Nate fight, and I'm not the only one.

UFC could use a guy like Nate around, I would love to watch Tony vs. Nate... Even though Tony likely wins that fight easily cause he can do more than box and use an overhook to get takedowns.

Would loooooooooooooooooooove to see Nate fight Khabib.

Nate reportedly made 11 million dollars in his second fight against Conor.

Nate had two great fights against Conor, and before that a great fight against Johnson.

«I knew that from his previous UFC fights that he may tire out, like he did against Nate Diaz, and that's what happened.

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but Nate not fighting does not hurt anyone and if he is cool with not fighting then so be it.

Dana White clearly knows Nate is a draw, Nate was never put on main event spots on PPV until his fights with Conor, first one had 10 days promotion, both fights were outside both fighters weight class, all in the usual location of Vegas, no milestone numbers (196 and 202), no belt, in fact UFC202 had no belt on the entire card yet they broke all PPV records, Conor vs Mendes did did not even reach 1m despite having the likes of Lawler title fight, as UFC 194, it was against Aldo for the belt after months and months of promotion and also against Alvarez following the stock - raising Diaz fights at MSG, NY for the first time ever, Champ Vs Champ on a stacked card with 3 title fights and the likes of Khabib on the prelims... still did not do PPV numbers with Nate.

Nate has most post-fight bonuses, who gets post fight bonus?

If Conor, Nate, Jon Jones, Ronda Rousey, GSP, Brock Lesnar, did end up fighting again, then so be it.

Nate and Nick are both well off, Nick aside, Nate got paid well for his Conor fights alone and he does not have a luxurious life style to burn cash fast, they have many businesses (e.g. clothing brand, cannabis products, martial art academies)... Bisping was saying he knows from local sources that Diaz bros get paid like $ 15k to just show up at a party / event... they may not be swimming in cash but they are miles away from «having to fight to pay the bill» situation...

When I was listening to Nate after he beat Conor on the FOX desk, he said something along the lines of»... look, i have been in this game for a very long time, almost 10 years in the UFC now, and fought best of the best all the time, Conor has done good so far, but has not fought that many top guys yet, let's see how many wars he can go through, let's see where he would be 10 years from, or 10 fights from now.»

Nate's fight against Henderson after 7 years of UFC on FOX is still the 3rd highest rated show of UFC on FOX (only bested by a couple of heavyweight fights) and Henderson's title fights on FOX against others did not do as nearly as good.

because woodley is not a fighter that can sell a fight in terms of his character or persona or promotional skills... not all of his fights were boring but the last 2 were too tatical for the average casual fan to pay for a PPV, hence all the promotional work would be on Nate, basically nate making Tyron rich, tyron against RDA on current UFC cards would no way reach 300KNate, basically nate making Tyron rich, tyron against RDA on current UFC cards would no way reach 300Knate making Tyron rich, tyron against RDA on current UFC cards would no way reach 300K....

When you have a guy like Nate who puts on performance winning shows all the time, doing great tv rating numbers, why promote him and make him a star so you have to pay him more for his next fight?

But UFC for some reason never used Nate properly, after Nate gives them a 2nd highest rated show, they get him to main even this fight:

not fan of woodley vs diaz, diaz is a lightweight and im sure if he given top money he will be motivated as f*ck and could really put on most of the division, including Tony Fergusen himself... but Woodley would just come for a W and nate is a entertainment big show fighter not point scoring round winning fights, so I do nt like this fight myself but do nt pretend this strategi has to precedence

Conor did 5 PPVS in total for UFC, the 2 with Nate did the most numbers, despite the fact that some of them like UFC 202 did not have ANYTHING on the line, outside their weight classes, UFC 196 was promoted for 10 days lol UFC 189, UFC 194 and UFC 205 had N titles fights on them, promoted endlessly and were stacked as hell, this might tell you something.....

You can only critisize him for the first fight against Nate.

Diaz has teased that he's returning and Woodley claims he is in talks for a fight against Nate Diaz, do you find this likely?

The only fights I wanted to see him in was either with Nate Diaz or GSP.

This message, which the documentary portrays as a manipulation of minds similar to the kind of societal shaping cigarette ads attempted, is demonstrated early on in the film by the August 2016 fight between Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz.

They unfortunately slipped up in Week 4 and lost their Hoops games by a final score of 52 - 43 to Team DKE SR (Nate Wellek) in a hard - fought game by both sides.

Let's not forget that Nate is not the light heavyweight they made him out to be after their first fight.

Nate, this is perfect time to enter lw and in two fights could be fighting for title and make 10 - 20 million....

I would've 1000X watched Nate fight against Gaethje at LW (pretty much any LW except a Khabib fight would be epic).

Aside from the fact that this is a bad matchup for Nate who should get wrestlefucked at WW if Woodley goes the safe route, it again feeds the perception (or reality) that one can Diaz their way to a title fight just by holding out for a while and pout in a corner until money comes down from the sky.

He chopped him down early and that took all of Nate's pop away for the rest of the fight.

If Conor wants the biggest 155 fights that are still decent matchups for him then he goes Nate # 3, then Aldo.

Did you watch the second fight against Nate Diaz where he was on his bicycle for the second half of the fight?

His «easiest» fight was against «just coming off the beaches of Mexico» Nate Diaz, if I recall there were other options in there as well, but not as favorable a match up as Nate Diaz.

That was probably his «easiest» fight recently, McGregor was # 1 FW and Nate Diaz was not even in the top 10 at LW if I recall.

give me a break... Say all you want about the fight or if it did not excite you e.g. Nate tweeted about the fight claiming it did not excite him, I'd understand, although I enjoyed the fight personally I see where Nate would be coming from and at least Nate himself always puts on existing fights.

If the Nate - Woodley fight happens and Nate wins, we will probably see GSP go down to get his old belt back, and then a potential GSP - Mcgregor fight (Imagine if both belts were put on the line and the winner became the first ever person to hold 3 belts).