Bear Wyatt Posted August 15, 2013 Posted August 15, 2013 It's being reported that Dana White has offered Nick Diaz a fight with Lyoto Machida at 185 pounds. I'm very interested in that fight in a train-wreck kind of way.
glfpunk Posted August 15, 2013 Posted August 15, 2013 Why would you say that? Because of his history of turning down fights?
keith_h Posted August 15, 2013 Posted August 15, 2013 Why would you say that? Because of his history of turning down fights? Machida is bigger, stronger, faster, has better wrestling, good BJJ, and is a better striker with knockout power. I think Diaz is smart enough to know he needs to come back to a winnable fight considering he is 1-2 in this UFC run. This fight is not winnable for him.
epwar Posted August 15, 2013 Posted August 15, 2013 Diaz only wants undeserved title fights nowadays. 1
TheVileOne Posted August 15, 2013 Posted August 15, 2013 Bellator MMA just announced Emanuel Newton vs. King Mo II for the November 2 PPV. The fight will be for the INTERIM light heavyweight title. Winner gets the real title shot. Yup.
epwar Posted August 15, 2013 Posted August 15, 2013 Bellator has officially jumped the shark. Shit is embarrassing. 1
glfpunk Posted August 15, 2013 Posted August 15, 2013 Why would you say that? Because of his history of turning down fights? Machida is bigger, stronger, faster, has better wrestling, good BJJ, and is a better striker with knockout power. I think Diaz is smart enough to know he needs to come back to a winnable fight considering he is 1-2 in this UFC run. This fight is not winnable for him. I don't think any of those reasons would factor into Diaz not taking the fight. I've never known Machida to have any kind of "wrestling" per se either. He's a bigger guy, that's about it. I don't think for one minute that Diaz wouldn't expect to win that fight, not that he would though. I think his only reasons for not taking the fight would come from him being an eccentric nutjob, not having to do with the opponent.
keith_h Posted August 15, 2013 Posted August 15, 2013 Why would you say that? Because of his history of turning down fights? Machida is bigger, stronger, faster, has better wrestling, good BJJ, and is a better striker with knockout power. I think Diaz is smart enough to know he needs to come back to a winnable fight considering he is 1-2 in this UFC run. This fight is not winnable for him. I don't think any of those reasons would factor into Diaz not taking the fight. I've never known Machida to have any kind of "wrestling" per se either. He's a bigger guy, that's about it. I don't think for one minute that Diaz wouldn't expect to win that fight, not that he would though. I think his only reasons for not taking the fight would come from him being an eccentric nutjob, not having to do with the opponent. I suppose I should have said Machida has excellent defensive wrestling. Diaz isn't Phil Davis or Jon Jones so he's not taking Machida down to work his BJJ game was my point.
Elsalvajeloco Posted August 15, 2013 Posted August 15, 2013 It has been almost exactly 5 months since he last fought. If he was even remotely interested in any fight, we would have heard by now. Funny how the whole aura about Diaz is that he doesn't need to show up to do media because he will show up to the fight. Well, he isn't showing up to fight either.
Control Posted August 15, 2013 Posted August 15, 2013 Maldonado vs Beltrain in a by gawd slobberknocker!
epwar Posted August 19, 2013 Posted August 19, 2013 Bellator keeps digging its own grave. Doug Marshall is out of his title shot against Shlemenko. So what do they do? Give the title shot to Brett Cooper, who just got KTFO in his last fight. And, yes, this is a week removed from Bjorn mocking Dana for giving Chael a title shot off a loss. 1
TheVileOne Posted August 19, 2013 Posted August 19, 2013 But they have a system to decide new title challengers. It's a system that makes about as much sense as TNA's rankings, but they have executives and fighters vote based on win/loss records and voting and all that jazz! What happened to matchmaking not deciding who gets title shots? I thought you had to earn your title shot? I thought fighters determined their own destiny in Bellator?
Ace Posted August 19, 2013 Posted August 19, 2013 Bellator has officially jumped the shark. Shit is embarrassing. Wait until their PPV plays to 3000 buyers in front of a crowd of 200. 1
LethalStriker Posted August 20, 2013 Posted August 20, 2013 Kendall Grove has been signed to Bellator. This is so when Tito appears in TNA he'll have his own stable of fighters and they'll all do the gravedigger skit when winning. I can't wait till Bellator/TNA signs Tiki next. 2
epwar Posted August 21, 2013 Posted August 21, 2013 Vitor Belfort vs. Dan Henderson II on November 9th in - you guessed it - Brazil!
LethalStriker Posted August 21, 2013 Posted August 21, 2013 Vitor and Hendo are in different stages of their careers then when they fought the first time on the first Pride card in the US. Hendo was one of the top LHWs back then at the top of his game while Vitor was on the verge of going down to MW and working through a tough spot in his career. But the roles have reversed since then and Vitor is red hot right now while Dan is going through the twilight of his career with tons of injury problems. I think Vitor takes the rematch.
Ace Posted August 21, 2013 Posted August 21, 2013 Of course Vitor takes it. Assuming Hendo makes it to the fight, he'll gas out after one round.
epwar Posted August 21, 2013 Posted August 21, 2013 Yeah, this is just lazy matchmaking. Henderson in his last two fights hasn't looked so great, just stalking forward with his right hand cocked and headhunting. Of course, 90% of folks are going, "THIS IS AWSOME! PRIDE RULZZZ!"
keith_h Posted August 21, 2013 Posted August 21, 2013 It is lazy matchmaking. But at the same time they have to feed someone to Vitor "we're not hiding him in Brazil" Belfort without killing off any more potential title challengers at MW or LHW. I guess Sonnen could have worked too. Going with Hendo/Vitor probably means they've convinced Wanderlei to fight Sonnen.
LethalStriker Posted August 21, 2013 Posted August 21, 2013 Wilson Reis will be stepping in to replace Johnny Bedford vs. Hugo Viana.
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