Comments Thread For: Nate Diaz Expected To Receive Boxing License, Heading To TMT?

[Dr Rumack]

Diaz has a really good striking game, however he's gunna find out the hard way that striking in MMA and boxing are worlds apart.

Yeah a good striking game in the UFC is still a club level boxer. Any pro fighter at the upper level of their domestic scene, national titlists and the likes, would have way too much for an MMA fighter.

[fvanesbeck]

Funny how he says Diaz wasn't happy at the UFC "putting him on the shelf" but Diaz has also publicly stated that he'll only return for a McGregor trilogy.

[Dr Rumack]

Funny how he says Diaz wasn't happy at the UFC "putting him on the shelf" but Diaz has also publicly stated that he'll only return for a McGregor trilogy.

The Diaz brothers contradict themselves all the time. I imagine Nate is capable of thinking both those things at the same time.

[rrayvez]

Nate Diaz vs mayorga. Make it happen.

[WesternChamp]

for what??? even though he outboxed mcgregor in the first fight, in an actual boxing match with real boxers, i dont think nate will be that successful. he's slow as shit, and is sloppy as hell with his punches.

[WesternChamp]

Diaz has a really good striking game, however he's gunna find out the hard way that striking in MMA and boxing are worlds apart.

really good? kinda stretching it a bit there. he has decent stand up for an mma fighter. but put him in with a real boxer and he will get exposed.

[bigdunny1]

UFC while growing in popularity every year has a major problem on their hands. Dana White is robbing his fighters blind. Generating a million ppv buys but paying these guys peanuts and they see boxers who are prospects or C level fighters making more then top UFC fighters. That will take down UFC. Whether it's the fighters forming a union, a class act lawsuit or jumping ship to fight promoters for more money a revolt is coming. You can't keep making all this money while these fighters risk their life like boxers but are paid 1/10th the amount. You seeing a lot of disgruntled fighters.

[M Bison]

UFC fighters still make good money, not great, but decent. $50k-100K is decent...frankly it's more than a lot of boxers would dream of making with 15 fights to their name. But those virtual no name fighters don't move the needle in terms of people tuning in. It's like in Hollywood. If Tom Cruise is in a movie, he makes $20m, and the guy who is the store clerk in some random scene makes $250. Because people want to see Tom Cruise, not store clerk. Tom Cruise is a brand, and the value he brings to the movie deserves to be compensated accordingly.

Nate Diaz is a brand. His name on the marquee makes people pay money to watch. He deserves to make money reflective of that fact. As far as I'm aware, McGregor has the biggest guarantee of any fighter - at $3,000,000. His name alone on any card is a sure bet it will do at least 500k to potentially a million buy at $60 a pop. Now the distributor and promotion deserve their cut, I'm not trying to say McGregor should walk with every dime, but to suggest that the McGregor, or the Diaz brand name only brings a value of $3m or less to the product is insulting - and if I was seeing guaranteed amounts of 5x or more that across the street from a boxing promoter - I would poke my head in and see if they were interested.

Perhaps we should compare what the top ladies of UFC are earning to the top ladies of Boxing?
UFC has promoted its female athletes nothing short of AMAZINGLY!
I'm not always interested to watch two woman fight but at times the UFC actually makes me want to watch that.

The fight fans of any sport want an overall good event but what comes first more importantly is a business growth, making profit its like Ward getting paid what he has been paid for several fights it doesn't help the promoter he gets paid more than he is generating so how is that good for boxing in the long run?

[bigdunny1]

sure there are boxers being paid more then an event generates which is just plain dumb and not good for the sport. But neither is ripping off fighters like UFC is doing and keeping all the money for yourself to the point you got champions begging for money from family members. It doesn't have to be one extreme or the other UFC could create some system where the fighters are compensated better. If they are smart they are proactive about this their top names feuding with them in the public eye and going out to get boxing licenses is not a good look.

[Boxfan83]

Diaz has a really good striking game, however he's gunna find out the hard way that striking in MMA and boxing are worlds apart.

Im sure a training camp with Andre Ward told him that long ago.