A Stupid Fucking Doctor Just Decided Who The Baddest Motherfucker In The Game Is
After three straight rounds of hard fought action, delivering on everything we thought the battle for the Baddest Motherfucker In The Game Championship would be, Nate Diaz vs Jorge Masvidal has been called off by a ringside doctor, due to a cut Nate Diaz sustained over his right eye in the first. Fucking bullshit, if you ask me – but I ain’t a doctor, and I didn’t see the cut up close like he did, so I dunno if it was bad enough to call an end to the fight. It probably was. I’m just bummed that we got the finish we did, and that the moment sorta got taken away from Nate and Jorge.
Before the stoppage, the fight was all Masvidal. He dropped Diaz pretty brutally in the first, and then a little less brutally in the second, and Nate caught him with some big shots in the third, but momentum wasn’t drastically shifting or anything crazy enough for me to say he was robbed. Honestly, there were moments during the fight where it looked like all he was doing was surviving. Take nothing away from Jorge Masvidal over the decision a doctor made.
Hopefully they’ll run this back, because I would watch these two fight an infinite amount of times, but if they don’t, I just hope Nate Diaz sticks around the sport and we see him in the octagon again soon.
What a night. We didn’t get the ending to the main event that ANYBODY desired, but man, it was fun while it lasted.