By: Sean Crose
The 6-1 cruiserweight Jake Paul squared off in a scheduled 10 rounder with former UFC nice Nate Diaz on the American Airlines Center Saturday evening in Dallas. The novelty bout was the primary occasion of a pay per view card broadcast reside on DAZN. It appeared just like the evening would finish extraordinarily early within the first as Paul landed and landed laborious. To his credit score, Diaz was capable of survive the spherical. Diaz had a greater second, getting in shut and making it tough. Paul, nevertheless, appeared to land the stronger, cleaner blows.
Diaz had some good moments within the third, however he didn’t present consistency. Diaz was capable of land nicely and bull ahead aggressively within the fourth. Paul dropped his man with a left hook within the fifth. Diaz beat the depend, however was clearly in bother. Still, he pushed ahead. Indeed, the Stockton, California native had a very good sixth. He additionally had a very good seventh – simply not pretty much as good a one as Paul did. The backside line was that Diaz’ photographs weren’t as efficient as Paul’s had been.
With that in thoughts, Diaz had a superb eighth, even hurting Paul by spherical’s finish. Diaz acquired the gang wild within the ninth with showmanship and a few good photographs – however Paul landed the higher punches. Diaz clearly knew the struggle was misplaced within the tenth, however being a man who likes to struggle, had some enjoyable with it, clowning for the gang and maybe even for Paul. Needless to say, Paul received by unanimous resolution. Not a critical struggle, however a enjoyable one nonetheless.
“Tough in this sport doesn’t work,” Paul mentioned of Diaz’ ruggedness. “I wanna run it back in MMA,” he added. Paul concurred, indicating he’d like a “real fight,” whereas admitting he favored boxing sufficient to struggle within the ring as a substitute of the octagon once more.
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