Nate Diaz stopped the loudmouth Conor McGregor via submission in the second round of their welterweight fight at UFC 196 on Saturday. “She went out like a champion”. With that being said, McGregor has looked massive leading up to the bout, and I believe that his pure power and superior technical striking should give him the nod here.
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“You’re like a gazelle”, the McGregor said to the American before the face off. “I’m a lion in there, and I’m going to eat you alive”. “The guys that are really good, you have to appreciate greatness and that’s why I like Conor so much”.
With Miesha Tate holding the Women’s Batamweight belt, the promotion has to choose whether to pair Ronda Rousey with Tate for the championship or Holm in a rematch. I just want to fight….
“Anything over forty grand he owes me because that was his last paycheck”, McGregor retorted.
But what’s even more interesting is the paltry sum that Miesha Tate will leave with, even if she upsets the odds and dethrones “The Preacher’s Daughter” – Tate is on a $45,000 to show/$45,000 to win rate on Saturday night.
Conor McGregor has stated that regardless of the outcome at UFC 196 that he will eventually return to the featherweight division to defend his title when a worthy contender finally emerges.
The most intriguing man in the UFC, is brash Irishman known as the Notorious Conor McGregor, he talks a big game and backs it up.
Although Tate controlled the second round on the ground, Holm picked apart Tate with punches for the other three rounds before the fifth.
“It wasn’t the right move to shake her off my back”, Holm said. It is me who holds the key to the fight game. “When you’re up against a wrestler like that, of course that threat is there for a takedown, and you have to recognize it”.
Holm spent the past few months in a whirlwind of publicity and attention after her stunning head-kick knockout of Rousey, the most popular fighter in mixed martial arts.
Tate has turned her career around after an 0-2 start in the UFC. As Tate herself put it after a news conference earlier this week: “We have those two [McGregor and Diaz] flipping each other off and Holly and I are, like, making each other friendship bracelets”.
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“I don’t know”, Diaz replied.
