Anything less than a dominant outing will kill any sort of “heel heat” that Chimaev has built up for himself this past week and just make him someone that fans want to see go away. Chimaev is going to run through him.Īfter nearly derailing an entire pay-per-view with a truly egregious weight miss, Chimaev better put on an overwhelming performance against Holland. Kevin Holland has poor wrestling defense. Let’s not overthink this pick here: Khamzat Chimaev is a great wrestler. After his deflating loss to Beneil Dariush, I vowed that I wouldn’t pick Ferguson to win a fight again and I won’t veer from that decision now.ĭiaz overcomes a slow start before turning up the heat in the last three rounds, winning a decision, and riding off into the sunset with middle fingers raised high. I’ve always considered Ferguson to be the superior fighter based on their in-cage results, though the high volume attack of Diaz is the perfect foil for “El Cucuy.” Not to mention the fact that Ferguson appears to be just a tad more shopworn at this stage of their respective careers. Diaz wants to head into the next stage of his athletic existence on a high note, while Ferguson hopes to find any sort of success to extend the end of the road for at least one more fight. These two will do everything in their power to add one more headlining win to their resumes, which guarantees fireworks for all of us watching.
Still, it’s not as if it’s going to be all hugs and handshakes once Diaz and Ferguson square off.
Praise be to the MMA Gods for giving us the main event that we should have had all along.įorget rankings and win streaks and title shots and all that jazz, this is a dream fight for a lot of hardcore fans out there and for good reason: Win or lose, Nate Diaz and Tony Ferguson come to play and it’s about time that they got to share the octagon with one another. (Numbers in parentheses indicate standing in MMA Fighting’s Global Rankings ) Nate Diaz vs. ET and is available exclusively on ESPN+ pay -per-view. The five-fight main card begins at 10 p.m. ET, followed by the four-fight prelims on ESPNN and ESPN+ at 8 p.m.
The four-fight early prelims begin on ESPN+ at 6:00 p.m. Make no mistake, that’s what happened here, and the UFC is lucky that its fighters are willing to jump through hoops for it (and hopefully were compensated handsomely).Īs this is likely Diaz’s final fight week with the UFC, don’t be surprised if there’s still one more twist before the weekend is through.
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You don’t become the most powerful combat sports organization in the world without learning how to fall upward. Somehow, despite the UFC choosing the path of most resistance when putting together this pay-per-view lineup, the promotion ended up with three logical pairings that are arguably more palatable than the seemingly pointless Chimaev-Diaz matchup and the regrettable Li-Ferguson matchup. Ferguson was supposed to fight Li Jingliang in the co-main event, but Li has been bumped down into a catchweight bout against Daniel Rodriguez (even though Li weighed in for a 170-pound bout for his fight with Ferguson while Rodriguez stepped to the scale for a 180-pound catchweight affair) while Chimaev steps into the co-main event slot against Kevin Holland. Instead of Chimaev, Nate Diaz now fights Tony Ferguson in the main event. After one of the most chaotic 48-hour periods we’ve ever seen ahead of a pay-per-view - that featured a press conference cancellation due to a backstage brawl and originally scheduled headliner Khamzat Chimaev missing weight by a whopping 7.5 pounds - the six fighters at the top of Saturday’s card remain, but everyone has a new dance partner.
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