{"id":391190,"date":"2022-06-06T17:56:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=391190"},"modified":"2022-06-06T17:56:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:56:51","slug":"where-would-jorge-go-from-there-mma-pundit-on-the-huge-risk-of-pitting-jorge-masvidal-and-nate-diaz-against-each-other-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/where-would-jorge-go-from-there-mma-pundit-on-the-huge-risk-of-pitting-jorge-masvidal-and-nate-diaz-against-each-other-again\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Where Would Jorge Go From There?&#8217;- MMA Pundit On the &#8216;Huge Risk&#8217; of Pitting Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz Against Each Other Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MMA pundit Chael Sonnen talked about a marquee match-up between Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal that is doing the rounds on the rumor mill. On his YouTube platform, Sonnen explained why he felt the booking between Diaz and Masvidal was perhaps not the route the UFC would go down, considering Nate Diaz has one foot out of the door.<\/p>\n<p>Stockton\u2019s second son is looking to fight the final fight on his UFC deal and possibly foray into the world of celebrity crossover boxing. There\u2019s no doubt that Nate Diaz would be a box office grand slam in such a realm, and there are a lot of different avenues for him to explore.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s on\u2757\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Masvidal vs Nate Diaz at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC244?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFC244<\/a> next Saturday\u203c\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cuDdfXtmoX\">pic.twitter.com\/cuDdfXtmoX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UFC Europe (@UFCEurope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFCEurope\/status\/1188486764358291456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 27, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/prior-to-ufc-275-when-was-the-last-time-the-ufc-had-an-event-in-singapore\/\">Prior to UFC 275, When Was the Last Time the UFC Had an Event in Singapore?<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Chael Sonnen has something to say<\/h2>\n<p>\u2018The American Gangster\u2019 talked about how a star who is likely on his way out of the company could jeopardize the future of an existing star like Jorge Masvidal, who is already on a career downturn as is. Masvidal hasn\u2019t won a fight since he fought Nate Diaz back in November 2019 and it all boils down to who the UFC is looking to put over with this potential booking.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MLZOHWMggNk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIs he going in the wrong direction? We don\u2019t know, he isn\u2019t doing anything wrong. He\u2019s doing exactly what he should be doing but let\u2019s just take a good look real fast at Nate vs Masvidal. Yes, we wanna see it, yes, that\u2019s going to be a big fight, okay. But, you do need to look at it from the organisation\u2019s standpoint.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I always enjoy seeing the opening of Jorge Masvidal vs Nate Diaz, where Masvidal fakes the knee. I\u2019d like to see them run it back sometime <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ROB3zKtb9h\">pic.twitter.com\/ROB3zKtb9h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sobervated Max \ud83e\udd43 (Fan of Max Holloway) (@SobervatedConor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SobervatedConor\/status\/1422148719353470980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn an attempt to guess, is that something they want to sign off on? It looks like Nate is going to go afterwards, it\u2019s a tremendous risk, to put a huge star that you\u2019ve got under contract, it\u2019s just a huge risk, be careful how you do that. Then what would even happen with a win? Where would Jorge go from there? I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s the capacity he\u2019s going to be used in, I\u2019m not sold on that.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/chael-sonnen-explains-why-the-ufc-will-likely-avoid-a-second-fight-between-jorge-masvidal-and-nate-diaz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bjpenn.com.<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the route the UFC decides to go, there\u2019s plenty of money to be made on all fronts. Injecting names like Conor McGregor and Colby Covington into the mix leaves several possible match-ups that make sense for all parties involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMA pundit Chael Sonnen talked about a marquee match-up between Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal that is doing the rounds on the rumor mill. On his YouTube platform, Sonnen explained why he felt the booking between Diaz and Masvidal was perhaps not the route the UFC would go down, considering Nate Diaz has one foot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":391191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}