Midnight Mania! Unlike ‘average’ MMA fighters, Nate Diaz knows how to box and can handle Jake Paul

Welcome to Midnight Mania!

Up to now, there’s been a sample to Jake Paul’s profession. 4 of his six victories come towards MMA fighters, particularly older and smaller fighters. He branched from his consolation zone final outing when he confronted Tommy Fury, a younger man like himself who truly had a good quantity {of professional} boxing expertise.

Paul got here up quick, looking limp in a decision loss. Consequently, he’s again to the beforehand established sample, as he’s going to challenge career Lightweight and 38-year-old veteran Nate Diaz this weekend (Sat. Aug. 5, 2023) in Dallas, Texas, which is able to stream dwell on DAZN pay-per-view (PPV). On paper, it appears to line Paul up for an additional massive win, as Diaz suits the factors for his different victims. There’s a motive why Diaz is such an enormous underdog!

Diaz, nonetheless, sees issues in another way. He understands that Paul is making the most of MMA fighter’s inexperience within the ring, however he doesn’t have the everyday background of different fighters. As an alternative, Diaz believes his years and years of sparring within the boxing ring will carry over successfully.

“The factor about him is he is aware of that MMA fighters can’t field and that they’re in over their head attempting to field as a result of he went over and labored a bunch over in coaching and now in fights additionally,” Diaz defined to DAZN (by way of BJPenn.com). “MMA fighters don’t know this, however the one factor about that’s that I’m in on the identical secret. I’ve been in on that since I used to be 15. I’m not your common wrestler, MMA fighter.

“I didn’t wrestle. When these guys he fought had been within the wrestling room at five- and six- and seven-, 10- and 15-years-old, I used to be boxing the entire neighborhood, boxing each professional I might discover. Boxing the very best degree I might discover, my complete profession,” Diaz concluded.

There’s some actual reality to Diaz’s assertion. For instance, what number of MMA fighters can say they had been sparring with Olympian Andre Ward back in 2016? Diaz and his camp have routinely crossed paths with prime boxers. That have is mirrored in his preventing fashion, which clearly has extra boxing affect than most fighters.

We’ll discover out in just some extra days if that’s sufficient to deal with Paul at this stage of his profession.

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