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Rumours floating around that NATE Diaz will fight Woodley for the WW title at 219.

Surely not true..

If it is, we might as well throw the rankings out the window and make title fights by Twitter followers.
I'm conflicted.

It's massive **** you to rankings. The only thing you could say to justify this match up was Nate beating Conor (top 5 p4p) at 170 and a close loss in a FOTY contender. Other than that.....he lost his last fight and is unranked at 170.

On the other hand.....it's a great match up fight. The UFC needs the Diaz brothers fighting again.
 

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I'm conflicted.

It's massive **** you to rankings. The only thing you could say to justify this match up was Nate beating Conor (top 5 p4p) at 170 and a close loss in a FOTY contender. Other than that.....he lost his last fight and is unranked at 170.

On the other hand.....it's a great match up fight. The UFC needs the Diaz brothers fighting again.
Nah, it’s a shit fight either way.

17-11, lightweight, hasn’t beat a WW since 2010.

It’s a ploy by the ufc to hope for a possible third undeserved Conor belt.
 

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Nah, it’s a shit fight either way.

17-11, lightweight, hasn’t beat a WW since 2010.

It’s a ploy by the ufc to hope for a possible third undeserved Conor belt.
The Welterweight belt is something McGregor might go after at some point but his next fight will be a title defence.
 

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What strikes me the most is that he talks all this shit about Brazil, Brazilians etc

But he trains at American Top Team which is populated with Brazilian fighters and trainers
 

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If (and its probably the worlds biggest if) Holly can avoid the big shots early I could see superior conditioning coming into play. Cyborg hasn't faced too many women with Holms overall skillset and defence.

Having said that, Cyborg should f**king destroy Holm.
 

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Cyborg is a brawler, Holm is a boxer...If this was males fighting, Isnt Hom the favourite?

And on Covington hahaha, Its always the way with Americans. Didnt a female fighter talk shit about Cyborg, Then Cyborg saw her one day and hit her. Yanks seem to think that they will never come face to face with whom they talk about. Werdum should of taken him down and broke both his arms.
 

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McGregor attacking officials, boomerang assaults, holm vs cyborg announced, rumours of Woodley vs Diaz, Bisping taking another fight already! What a crazy week it’s been in mma
 
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