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  • Ben Henderson

    Votes: 28 48.3%
  • Nate Diaz

    Votes: 30 51.7%
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***OFFICIAL*** Ben Henderson vs. Nate Diaz Thread

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#1 ·
Lightweight bout: 155 pounds
Five round fight for the UFC Lightweight Championship

 
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#8 ·
I love the Diaz brothers, especially Nate. I've voted for him. And I'll be rooting for him. But I'd not at all be surprised if Henderson pulled out a decision victory using his wrestling. Too many people sleeping on Ben Henderson. Like I said, I'm banking on Nate Diaz, but I respect what Ben brings to the table.
 
#13 ·
I think Nate will take this impressively. Could be a real war, Bendo is powerful and can fight all night... I just think that Diaz will hurt him on the feet and outclass him on the ground, creating an opportunity to finish before the Championship rounds.
 
#16 ·
Very tough fight to call, I'm split 50/50 on this one. Hard to picture how these two will match up. I'm picking Nate because I want him to win and I would love to see a Diaz brother with a title belt. I'm expecting Nate's all around game and cardio to be the difference, I think hes got the edge in the stand up and on the ground, Hendersons got the strength and more diversity to his game but I think it'll be Nate's night.
 
#20 ·
If we get some good judging it may go in the way of Bendo getting lit up on the feet and having to get a TD. But doing nothing too much with it while Nate s attempting subs. And Nate winning.

But they will still score that type of fight for Bendo. Because he is on top. Nate's striking seminar Bendo attends won't mean more than Bendo on top for a couple minutes, in the judges eyes anyway
 
#22 · (Edited)
Rauno is right. And imo the judging situation is starting to really hurt the sport both from a credibility stand point and a marketing stand point. Once fighters can't just lie on top of guys the sport will naturally evolve to become much more exciting.

The people who would be interested in MMA in it's current form already are. They need to find a way to bring in the guys who currently think it's boring and that they don't want to pay to watch a guy lie on top of another guy for 15 minutes.

Knees to the head on the ground would help a lot too both by giving wrestlers another strong weapon when able to get to a dominant position, but also by making shooting in a desperation take down a less viable strategy especially if you get stuffed.

The people who would cry about knees on the ground being too barbaric already call MMA too barbaric and dismiss it, so why are we pandering to them?

Jon Fitch + knees to the head on the ground? Yes please.
 
#24 ·
WTF, 10-2 in the votes.

I'm shocked at the amount of people actually really rooting for Diaz to win here. Maybe Kreed was right after all, and MMA fans are all a bunch of racists :confused05:

I kid, I kid, but I,am very surprised to see so many people easily picking Nate to win. I expect this to be a back and forth war with Nate eventually sinking in a sub in the championship rounds.

Could really go either way though.
 
#27 ·
Well you know you can be racist against one race and not another, so hating a black/korean and still liking hispanics would be very possible.

Not that I think race has anything to to with it, and I think grapple was kidding too but I'm just pointing it out.

I voted Bendo because I think he's going to win, but I'm totally rooting for Nate, seems many others gave Nate the vote for the same reason, because I doubt they all think he will win.

Bendo just happens to be the UFC-fighter with the least amount of fans ever, understandably.
 
#59 ·
I don't even consider Benson a champ. To become a champ you need to actually beat the champ. The two fights were close but going to a decision twice does not mean you beat the champ. The first fight he did more damage to Edgar but point wise it looked like he was losing to me for both the fights.

I'm rooting for Nate to win this one. Can't wait to see this fight and the rest of the card.
 
#33 ·
But some times being the better fighter doesn't get you the win in this sport.

That said, Bendo definitely isn't the lay and pray type, he's always involved in crazy scrambles and working hard on the ground with GNP, so I doubt he'll look to pull a Stun Gun on Diaz, but then again, there was Condit vs Diaz, so any thing is possible.
 
#35 ·
I didn't mean any thing can happen in a shock upset sense. I mean it in the sense that a killer like Carlos Condit would completely abandon the natural fighting instincts he has used for so many years in favour of a cheap way to out point his opponent.

Even a slugger like Condit abandoned the stuff which made him the great fighter he is in the first place to win as safely as possible.

So what I mean is, I'm expecting Bendo to be active with ground and pound, guard passes etc on the ground and to really go out there and fight, but I wouldn't be shocked if he played the points game and looked to hold Diaz down in guard as best as he could.
 
#36 ·
I will pick Bendo via leg kicks from distance, movement, and TD's.

He will be huge compared to Diaz, and I suspect will be able to combine a little technique and a lot of muscle to get himself out of sub trouble.

I also predict a lot of people will bitch about how boring the fight was.

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