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Nate Diaz surprises me sometimes. I want to share with you guys some thoughtful things he recently had to say about the boxing community's reaction to his former rival, Conor McGregor:
“Now all the boxers are criticizing Conor like ‘Conor will get embarrassed’, but that’s a real arrogant thing to say. Wanna’ know something that’s even more embarrassing? If Floyd fought Conor in an MMA match, it would be more embarrassing than if Conor fought Floyd in a boxing match. [Floyd] would get mounted and laughed at, and slapped around [and Conor] would smile at the crowd and wave.”
“Boxers are clowns sometimes now. I’m never taking the MMA fighters over the boxer’s side when it comes to punching and sh-t, but I’m like, don’t be talking sh-t. [They say MMA fighters] ‘would get embarrassed, it’s ridiculous’ yeah, but we’re talking real fighting now you one-dimensional boxing f-cks. This is real life sh-t, you’ll get embarrassed.”
“That [Malignaggi] guy was on the internet talking sh-t on him the other day. I’m like, What kind of sparring partners you got? I’d shove that guy in the gym and beat his ass if I was Conor, like: ‘what you’re going to put me on blast about what? You don’t know shit. What gave you the right to talk sh-t, criticize if we’re working together when I could beat your ass for real?’. Don’t even speak. That’s my thoughts.”
I like hearing Diaz say how he really feels, and always appreciate a martial-artist speaking well of a former rival. Him and McGregor had two epic fights, they really did. And he makes some damn good points here. This is what it boils down to: boxing is insecure right now. McGregor has made David Haye, Terrance Crawford, all those guys insecure. Amazing the effect the guy has, huh?
Well, happy Saturday all, cheers.
http://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/nate-diaz/nate-diaz-boxing-floyd-mayweather-paul-malignaggi/
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