Conor McGregor may have suffered a defeat to Nate Diaz at UFC 196, but he’ll have at least a cool million in his bank account to help recover.
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Holm, who won the belt in November with a shocking victory over Ronda Rousey, was making her first title defense. He stunned McGregor with multiple punches including one that landed right on the Irish fighter’s jaw. When McGregor tried a takedown, Diaz quickly forced him to tap out on the ground.
After 16 years in this business”, Dana White was saying, a wry smile on his face, “the one thing you don’t ever do is think you know what’s going to happen. “Nothing surprised me, except that I got at hit at all”.
But Tate showed Saturday night that she’s more than capable of beating a bantamweight champion – as long as it’s not Ronda Rousey.
What she watched transpire from UFC 196 was a clearer path to her resurrection as a champion. She’s tougher than nails.
“Now another man gets a victory over me, and he celebrates it?” asked McGregor, who knocked out Aldo in 13 seconds in December.
Speaking at the post-fight press conference, McGregor said: “He had an opportunity to show up here, and he didn’t”.
A vanquished Conor McGregor has come out fighting after suffering a third defeat in his professional career at UFC 196 in Las Vegas on Sunday morning. “This is part of the game”. “I’ve been literally knocked down and nearly out of it and I get back up and I win fights”.
“Ronda wasn’t watching the fight. I’ll eat it all and come back stronger”.
After absorbing some of McGregor’s best strikes in the first round, Diaz, who accepted the fight on just 11 days notice after original headliner Rafael dos Anjos pulled out with injury, entered the second frame covered in blood but still ready to scrap. McGregor (19-3, 7-1 UFC) tapped 4:12 into round two, his 15-fight winning streak halted in decisive and dramatic fashion.
He said McGregor hadn’t backed up his claims he was willing to die in the ring. I will take it on the chin.
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Sensing that she needed to take the fifth round, 29-year-old Tate made her move at the halfway mark of the final round. She’s very unsafe. She’s capable of catching anyone at any moment. “She can be behind in a fight, and she can still finish”. Holms was looking like she’d go far with the championship belt after effortlessly knocking out Rousey with a devastating head kick.
