Posts Tagged ‘Nick Diaz’
Untethered MMA
What UFC Fighters Can Learn From Nick Diaz’s Return
Nick Diaz returned to the UFC last week, signing a three-fight extension with the promotion. UFC President Dana White then tweeted that he had no update on matching up Diaz with Anderson Silva, though Diaz had said he would onl...
UFC
Nick Diaz Could Learn a Lesson From Robbie Lawler
UFC contender Robbie Lawler should be the envy of all welterweight MMA fighters. Despite a somewhat average-at-a-glance 8-4 UFC record (and a worse-looking 3-5 Strikeforce record to boot), this 13-year veteran is sitting at the...
UFC
Nick Diaz May Never Fight Again, and That’s Terrible
Nick Diaz may never capture a UFC title, but he’s pound-for-pound the most frustrating fighter on the roster. In a welterweight division suddenly devoid of Georges St-Pierre and his unflinching divisional dominance, Diaz ...
UFC
UFC 47: Nick Diaz vs. Robbie Lawler & The Missed Rematch
Ten years ago, mega-prospect Robbie Lawler was knocked out cold by Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu scrapper Nick Diaz in one of the biggest upsets on the UFC 47 fight card. Ten years later, their rematch is one of the biggest fights the UF...
Untethered MMA
UFC 171 Review
Five minutes separated Robbie Lawler from becoming the UFC welterweight champion in 2014. Lawler headed into the fifth round with Johny Hendricks tied two rounds a piece in the mind’s of most non-Douglas Crosby people. Wh...
Featured Fighter
The Diaz Brothers – Early 2014 Edition
Nate Doesn’t Do Nice Following his absolute destruction of Gray Maynard at The Ultimate Fighter 18 Finale on November 30 last year, Nate Diaz appeared discontented. Maybe part of it had to do with the fact that the guy who he...
Subo Says
The Perils of a Unified Talent Pool, Part 2
(An ongoing series to be continued as events dictate.) Well, that didn’t take long. A mere eight days after creating this trope in a somewhat half-assed effort to ensure future material during the inevitable doldrums of t...
Featured Fighter
WSOF 6 Primer: Jon Fitch – “I’d like to think I’ve got another five or ten years left in me.”
Pleasantries and Musings e spoke early Sunday evening, our appointment arranged by a go-between and confirmed by a brief text exchange, and there wasn’t much preliminary chatter before I dove into the questions. This was Jon ...
Untethered MMA
UFC 166 Review
By Mike Fagan, October 22nd, 2013 Cain Velasquez may have vanquished hopes of the UFC’s first tetralogy (or pentalogy) at UFC 166. Velasquez beat down Junior dos Santos for the second time in a row, all but erasing thei...
Featured Fighter
Rico “The Triggerman” Farrington a promising welterweight prospect
or 24-year-old Rico “The Triggerman” Farrington (who will be competing this Saturday at CFA 12: Sampo vs. Thao), his introduction to mixed martial arts was the result of a noncombat related injury. When the lifelong athlete...
