Juan Diaz: A Potentially Costly Loss

[Hitman932]

no way was juan diaz exposed, even if campbell laid out a so called "blueprint" there are only a handful of guys who have the skills to follow it, much less the nuts to pull it off.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

Nate Campbell broke down Juan Diaz physically and mentally. Campbell exposed Diaz?

He never beat Juan mentally, a beaten fighter never would have finished the fight. Juan showed alot of heart, he's still young and has a bright future.

[PoetryInMotion]

Possible.

Now how would you feel if your current promoter dumps you (tho this is already a given), lose a fight, and might lose a potential megabuck contract with another new promoter?

Diaz dumped king, king did everything he could to keep diaz and diaz did everthing he could to make sure this was his last fight with king, including taking a pay cut and paying some of the promoter fee's for king, even with the loss i see a bright future for diaz now that he's rid of king. it's because of king that diaz had to put up all of his belts at one time. King is still all about gaining at the expense of others, he dont believe in win-win's.

[SceneBoxer]

I can see what you mean but i dont think so. Casamayor said the hardest he ever got hit was in his fight with cambell. Other boxers can see what cambell did and try to do it, but i think 33 out of 34 times juan is going to win that battle.

I disagree. Campbell before the fight said that Juan is very beatable. Many people think that Juan is almost unbeatable at lightweight (Nate a +450 underdog!!!). Campbell already proved them wrong.

Well just wait for Juan's next fight probably against the loser of Casa-Katsidis fight then wait who will come out victorious from this loser vs. loser match up.

[sterling]

lol campbell baet juan with his head rofl that cut changed the entire fight and juan wil come back and beat that bum.

[SceneBoxer]

He never beat Juan mentally, a beaten fighter never would have finished the fight. Juan showed alot of heart, he's still young and has a bright future.

Props to Juan for finishing the fight. His corner almost call it quits after the tenth. Juan used to throw 100 punches per round with 40 to 50% accuracy in his other fights but on this fight he broke down. Juan only threw 30 plus punches per round in the last 3 rounds and landing only single digit numbers while Nate still throwing in high volume.

Juan was clearly broken down physically and mentally.

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[Sinisterevo]

this loss might actually help Juan get a fight with Pacquiao, because now he looks beatable.

[SceneBoxer]

lol campbell baet juan with his head rofl that cut changed the entire fight and juan wil come back and beat that bum.

That's part of the boxing game. Nate could be doing a bit of intentional dirty tactics but Juan should be able to handle that or maybe retaliate. Juan also did a very good job in the 6th acting as if another headbutt further worsen his cut but replay clearly showed that a punch did that. Nate was deducted a point because of Juan's very good acting job.

Nate was only doing some "intelligent" tactics like brushing his short hair on Juan's cut whenever their heads were close together.

[SceneBoxer]

this loss might actually help Juan get a fight with Pacquiao, because now he looks beatable.

Team PAC might not be interested on this since Juan has nothing to offer anymore like "no more belts?". But who knows if they will offer PAC big money he can't refuse.

[baya]

I think Nate also beat Juan mentally. Before the fight Nate stated these:

- Juan not a demi-god
- Juan not the best lightweight in the world
- that Juan will go through hell
- that he will beat Juan's body

During the fight:

- Nate trash talk to Juan at the end of almost every round
- Nate charged to the center of the ring when Juan still in his stool
- Nate outpunching Juan in all rounds
- Nate gave Juan a dose of his own medicine

After the fight, it seems that everything Nate claimed were true and what he predicted did come true. I think all of these affects Juan mentally bigtime.

that has everything to do with nate, and nothing to do with juan.

again, dude wasn't broke mentally, hes not feeble minded.