UFC 279: Diaz vs Ferguson -- Fixed?

Wouldn’t be the first. MacGregor-Cowboy fight was 100% fixed. Unfortunately I witnessed that one live.

No way. You people with fixing fight crap.

I can't speak to the fight as I didn't watch it or follow the build up but I was with friends earlier tonight who noticed that the betting odds for that fight flipped right before it or something and they were shocked as to why

You’ve never seen Nick fight before. He always does that walk around stuff to bait opponents in and to taunt. He didn’t like the little leg kicks. It’s a smart strategy and I’d do it, but it is wimpy to just kick the legs. He was walking around as if to say if you don’t want to fight then let’s go home. And Ferguson was starting to eat punches. He can’t stand their eating them for two more rounds. He had to go for a takedown. He could do that takedown 10 times and he’d only get submitted 1 time at most so it’s worth the try when you’re eating punches. That’s how takedowns work. Your head goes next to their body. A guillotine is way harder to lock in than it looks when a 3rd degree blackbelt does it. And even then, why do you think Nick has lost so many fights in his career. If it was that easy he’d be undefeated because everyone does the same takedowns and he’d just guillotine victory every fight.

Pssst, that was Nate fighting, not Nick.

Don't tell anyone else, they may not know that.

They were wasting a DIaz fight. PPV buys to see Chimaev murder Diaz were horrible. Diaz is one of those fighters that people will pay to see no matter his ranking. People didn't wanna see him lose badly. After the shake-up PPV buys went up.

What happens outside the cage is all just marketing and promotion. They knew they were gonna shake this up days ago well before the weigh-in. Luckily they had fighters like Diaz and Chimaev who just wanna fight.

Alan

I don't think they could ever convince a fighter in the UFC to take a dive.

I do think maybe Dana had second thoughts about letting Khamzat beat the hell out of the fan favorite Nate and maybe mentioned not to make weight, but I highly doubt that also.

It was a great card.

Especially a Diaz brother.

Wow this a dumb thread. Stick to running.

the original fight was a squash match. Dana doesn’t want Nate to have any negotiating power going to a rival mma org (or boxing) so he wanted him to get destroyed by khamzat.

Thanks to khamzat being too fat Nate got lucky and got to fight Tony who’s on a 4(now 5) fight skid. Vegas had Nate as a slight dog and Tony fought like an idiot.

this wasn’t even remotely fixed

Diaz was fortunate the fights had you be reset. ferguson is a shell of his former self and has crt symptoms well before this fight.

still I think a lot of older ufc fans wanted to see a Ferguson vs Diaz fight.

The MMA is big a lot of $$$$$$, there is no reasoning in fixing anything that would be stupid.