Diaz defeated McGregor after taking the fight on less than two weeks notice at UFC 196, Diaz has a ground game that McGregor is light years behind, Diaz taps McGregor in the third round.
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For a fighter who talks a lot about boxing, even challenging Floyd Mayweather, Conor McGregor certainly lacks respect for time.
The pay-per-view broadcast begins at 7 p.m., with four fights from the preliminary card airing on Fox Sports 1 at 5. Well, outside of all the paper that it’s going to bring in for the UFC, Las Vegas, and sportsbooks around the globe. Diaz offered: “I want to behave and act right“. The event will take place Saturday, August 20th in Las Vegas, NV, airing live on PPV.
“F*ck Team Diaz, and if you’re down with Team Diaz, f*ck you too”. I guarantee both of these guys are going to get massive fines and there’s probably going to be a hearing after the fight.
He arrived 30 minutes late to Wednesday’s session after UFC leadership pulled him off July’s UFC 200 main event for missing an earlier news conference that he rejected in favor of training overseas. Johnson is a risky fighter as long as the fight is on the feet, Teixeira eats some shots before grounding and submitting Johnson in the second.
Lorenz Larkin was actually the last fighter to close down the weigh-ins as he hit the mark at 170.75 pounds for his bout with Neil Magny.
And in the end, in a business where money speaks much louder than reason, this Diaz vs. McGregor main event at UFC 202 makes all the sense it needs to – whether MMA snobs like it or not.
The MGM Grand’s Convention Centre was shaking by the time the featherweight champion took to the stage.
But despite the setbacks, he says that we should never underestimate Conor McGregor’s ability.
McGregor did eventually show with less than an hour to spare in the approved window, tipping the scales at 168lbs.
“When he goes to sleep at night, he remembers what happened the last time”.
Let’s see if Nick Diaz will have something to tweet about after this match!
“I got too big not to be heard”, he said.
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“We expect this to be our highest turnover UFC event ever, McGregor’s last two fights now sit first and second in terms of turnover and number of bets and from the large number of bets we have taken already and the huge hype around the matchup this trend looks set to continue”.
