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Nate Diaz Shows That Lightweight Is The Best Place For Him Against Donald Cerrone

Posted in Boxing classes | December 31st, 2011

Nate Diaz has had a sincerely singular career in a UFC given winning “The Ultimate Fighter.” With a superb run by a lightweight multiplication that enclosed a handful of wins over tip fighters, and dual contested separate preference waste to pretension contender Gray Maynard and tip warrior Clay Guida, he changed adult to welterweight and had churned results. Moving behind down after a degrading bid opposite Rory MacDonald, Diaz has found a home behind in a lightweight division.

And in review he never should’ve left it in a initial place.

With an comprehensive dismantling of Takanori Gomi, a win that would’ve meant a lot some-more behind when Gomi was a best lightweight in a world, Diaz’s dismantling of Donald Cerrone now vaults him into pretension contention. It’s a usually approach it can be noticed in light of a widespread preference feat over Cerrone.

When we demeanour behind during Diaz’s record, he’s been remarkably rival among what is now a tip tier of a multiplication in new history. He even has a acquiescence feat over Gray Maynard, notwithstanding in an muster on “The Ultimate Fighter,” as good as a separate preference waste to dual guys deliberate among a tip 5 fighters in a division. Cerrone seemed staid to join them, a win over Diaz being a final hold in what could’ve been a pretension shot for him, until he ran into a younger hermit of welterweight pretension contender Nick Diaz.

The subsequent quarrel Nate Diaz needs is a pretension eliminator, maybe opposite a leader of Joe Lauzon and Anthony Pettis while Frankie Edgar defends a belt opposite Ben Henderson, since a lightweight pretension design is privileged adequate that another feat opposite a contender should safe him forward of a line. And in a intrigue of things lightweight is a correct multiplication for him since his abilities lend itself to that multiplication and not welterweight.

Diaz is somewhat built, like his brother, though he doesn’t have a physique form to lift a correct flesh structure for a division. It was painfully apparent opposite MacDonald, who looked a full weight multiplication bigger than Diaz, and behind during lightweight his physique form fits in. He doesn’t demeanour like a large lightweight like Maynard though he fits in notwithstanding his skinnier frame. And with dual true wilful victories, one opposite a tip tier fighter, Diaz has unequivocally found his home during a tip of a lightweight division.

One can see because a welterweight pierce would seem appealing for him. Cutting weight to get to 155 had to be tough and an easier weight dump to 170 substantially looked some-more appealing on paper. With GSP a customary dispatcher in a division, bigger fights and potentially bigger paydays could wait him that weren’t accessible during lightweight. But during welterweight he’s a center of a container journeyman during best. If a MacDonald quarrel taught us anything it’s that he’s only not large adequate to contest during that weight. Against other fighters with identical builds he’d humour a same fate; someone like Josh Koscheck, who cuts from tighten to 200 lbs or so to make 170, would be grievous in comparison.

You could contend a same about many of a tip fighters in that multiplication as well. Diaz isn’t designed to be a welterweight like his hermit notwithstanding carrying a same genetics and same style. Lightweight might not be utterly a excellence multiplication for Nate Diaz in terms of paydays though it’s where he belongs. Being a journeyman welterweight is one thing though he has a intensity to be a UFC champion during lightweight.