Diaz stops Daley in thriller
Nick Diaz won his 10th bout in a row with an exciting first-round TKO of Briton Paul Daley in the main Strikeforce event on Saturday night in San Diego.
The outspoken American defended his Strikeforce welterweight belt after referee John McCarthy stopped the fight at four minutes and 57 seconds, with Daley pinned down as the blows rained down.
Daley, from Nottingham, had stunned Diaz with a series of strikes and body-kicks that left his opponent reeling in the early seconds.
But Diaz fought back, pinning Daley to the cage and fighting off a failed takedown.
Daley thought he had seized the initiative after dropping Diaz with a left hook but the American managed to floor Daley before pinning him down and finishing him off.
The future of Daley is now uncertain: he was kicked out of UFC for punching Josh Koscheck after the bell and, since Strikeforce was taken over by UFC president Dana White’s company, he may struggle to get fight deals.
Diaz, meanwhile, was non-committal about his next opponent, saying "I don't know. We've got to see what's up".
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Wish the olympics or some event would hold an mma event for ufc and bellator also strikeforce etc and put the best fighters in all 1 event to see whose the best fighter not the companies best fighter. Because mma is just money generated which is a shame because you don't see the full fighter potential a bit sad really.
----i think that the indulgance of comaradary in its entiriety is spoiling the limelight for those up and coming juvenilels who speak out about nothing besiides the fomerr glorified pen pushers who have no idea what its like to enter the cage so how can they even comment
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What a fighter Diaz is.. I love the way he never backs off guys who seem to be stronger then he is he just goes after them and the amount of pressure he creates just overwhelms them.. Got to love this fight 30secs before the fight was over he he was face first on the canvas looking in a bit of trouble he manages to composes himself gets up and goes after Daley and knocks him out lol brilliant couldn't of happened to a nicer guy either : )...
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