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If Nate really signs that fighting contract with Jake, I think it is very predictable what Nate is going to do. He will fight in his usual relaxed manner. And instead of dealing maximum damage with few punches, he will throw dozens middle powered ones, just to show how dominant he is. I even think that instead of real punches, he will throw slaps, or prefer not to finish Jake. If in Jakes last fight I doubted that it will go full distance (I thought that Silva would KO him), then a fight (MMA) with Nate would go full distance. Just because Nate is going to be chilled, relaxed, stoned during the fight

Ah...  Then that makes his transition to MMA a lot easier.  On top of my head UFC fighters Cody Durden and Jonathan Pearce both have high school wrestling backgrounds and they've been holding their own.  Durden is so so but Jonathan Pearce could be a top 5 guy sooner or later.

All in all, I'm excited for Jake Paul's first MMA match.  I'll take a shot on whoever is the underdog.    If it's Jake Paul, books prolly doesn't rate his wrestling background high which could be a mistake and if it's the other guy then books could be overestimating Jake Paul's chances if that makes any sense.  Lol.  There's just a lot of unknowns.

His comments in 2014 were really true and back then that was really sincere in my opinion but surely enough Dana White is just human that could always do wrongful things and there might be something that happen between the two that we may never know we never see the whole picture, maybe this slap had cause something to make him feel like that uncle Dana White really tends to say such things then forgets about them but let's just wait and see what may happen to the UFC,


Yup! the whole picture will note whole if we are just taking one side of the coin there might be something that triggered Dana White to do it, and this could be just a misunderstanding but I do agree with the fact that he hurt a woman and that would not change a thing, but let's just be fair on both side by knowing what really happens with the altercation,


I think he is thinking ways in the sense where he is good at, while his brother Jake Paul is really decent in boxing and this is proven in his previous fights but I think this is a hand-picked fight that he can smash, Logan Paul in the other hand is not really decent in boxing he can surely box, but maybe he is not picking his fight, he is just going through things that can really make him money, but if he is a wrestler in the 1st place then he can surely get that technique and added his striking capabilities, maybe he can fight in MMA,

To be fair, his wife started the physical altercation and he returned that back and on top of that both were drunk. Everyone can talk a big talk if they are not in the situation and Dana White never expected to be in that situation when he was making these big statements and now he is under fire but he will sort the situation and his wife already made a statement favoring him.


Jake Paul has an amateur wrestling background and then he made his transition to boxing, so he has the basics regarding take down defense unlike pure strikers who added wrestling at a later part of their career.

Before Anderson Silva, Nate Diaz might have considered taking that fight.  But after Anderson Silva, no...  Nate Diaz ain't signing on the dotted line.  Jake Paul is physically bigger and stronger too.  I don't think he could go down to 170, Nate Diaz's current ideal fighting weight, without draining himself.


I'd like to see Jake Paul fight a couple of guys with a good wrestling background first before these big money events.  Wrestling is usually a problem when fighters with a primary striking base enter MMA.

They can always make one more cross promotion event, like it happened on December 31 with Rizin and Bellator.
I am sure that PFL is going to agree on something similar if Nate signs for Rizin and Jake Paul is in PFL.
We just need UFC and ONE Championship to start doing this, and we can have MMA World League soon

I don't know what will gonna happen to Jake Paul if Nate really gonna fight him for real under MMA Rules. That won't gonna happen because obviously he has all the disadvantages and will not gonna survive a single round unless they will gonna use some magic tricks again which is really fun to look forward to, I wonder what kind of strategy they will use if they gonna fix the fight again because his last fight was a perfect execution against Anderson Silva and the old guy look seems he is not able to catch Jake Paul with his power punches.

Dana is still into combat sports, just not into the ones we used to associate him with. You know Dana, the mixed world in MMA doesn't mean men get put in fights with women
What do you think? Should he resign?

Dana White was filmed slapping his wife in the face during a New Year's Eve row
He has apologized, but comments from 2014 have now come back to haunt him
He said you could 'never bounce back from putting your hands on a woman'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/mma/article-11593775/White-said-dont-bounce-hitting-woman-stay-UFC-chief-wife-slap.html

Btw Jake Paul is teasing Nate Diaz. He offers Nate a boxing fight, then, after 6 months, a fighter under MMA rules. If Nate agrees, he might get a good purse, as well as this would be a nice slap (slap lol) on Dana White if Jake wins. Another UFC fighter get beaten by YouTuber. However, Nate has recently posted a RIZIN picture in his twitter. I wonder what would that mean? Just teasing or planning to sign a contract?

Yup! I highly doubted it aswell, it seems that Dana White is not interested in dealing with any combat sports and UFC is the number 1 in the business right now, he doesn't want his competition to gain fame the people by backing it up with that kind of event but I am just hoping that it can have some probability, in doing it,


He surely wants a competition with Dana White and since he is Logan Paul a well-known content creator, influencer, and Crypto Scammer, I think he can be the face of PFL right and maybe this will not be a bad merging for PFL aswell, but I surely doubt it that they can out throne UFC, but PFL will become pretty much popular when that happens, and yes he would surely do everything to make that happen to get the retired UFC fighters to be on PFL and have a 1 last fight to make cash,

Oh this is great news for MMA to see Jake Paul finally signing a deal with PFL!
It would be amazing if we can continue in winning style, but MMA is completely different game from boxing.
Competition for UFC is getting stronger and I think we are going to see more great fighters going to PFL just to fight Jake Paul and earn more money.

He has some balls alright. Logan is among the cofounder of the organization that newly create PPV Super fights of PFL where he'd fight Nate. Don't know what to think about it but he is to fight Diaz in boxing and then MMA after it. Diaz definitely got a good deal.

Since Logan will be marketing this PFL, he might invite more of the retired UFC fighters.

^  Yeah he could get beat in MMA but Jake Paul has been smart in which opponents to pick.  I never really thought much of him until he pulled off a W vs Anderson Silva.  His stock went way up after that match.

As for the UFC not allowing their fighters to compete in other promotions, why would they?  The UFC is trying to build a brand to be the best promotion for MMA.  If you guys noticed, it's not really about the fighters when it comes to the UFC...  It's about the UFC, the brand.  They're trying to run it like a real company, a real league, a real sport all rolled into one.

I think UFC will never agree to let their fighters fight in other promotion or against a non UFC fighter. I think they will always look on other promotions "from the top" and act like their promotion is to unique to fight against someone else. From business point of view, that might even work out well, as it will increase the exclusiveness of UFC.

Some news:

Jake Paul has signed with the Professional Fighters League to compete in MMA. Paul is targeting a clash with Nate Diaz in boxing, and then facing off under MMA rules six months later.

Finally that kid is going to get his ass kicked by a MMA fighter that fights under MMA rules But lets give him respect for having balls. That is another hit on Dana White, who told that Jake is afraid to do MMA.

Dillon Danis drops out of KSI fight next week, KSI manager claims Danis "underprepared’ and ‘struggling with weight". Lol, what a crap career Danis has, scared of a YouTuber. I will remind who he is - a guy who coached McGregor bjj, a guy who was involved in Khabib jumping out of the octagon, a guy who claimed to be a cool bjj black belt, and a guy who was chocked by club guard lol

Interesting the Flyweight will surely be in the spotlight right now and it is Brazil VS Japan that is going to fight my take about the main event is I guess Felipe Bunes has the edge when it comes to reach advantage he got the height aswell but not that much, both can finish the fight via KO/TKO or a submission but for me Felipe Bunes is more technical when it comes to his striking and when comes the opportunity he can surely grabs it, my take I would go with Felipe Bunes,


For me, the level of competitiveness against UFC versus Bellator is very different from the level of how fighter work with UFC the fighter in Bellator
we can say that the Old fighters in the UFC are now coming to Bellator to snatch themselves some belts not because they can but because they still can, and some will surely become dominant in that kind of division, we can see many old fighters changing to Bellator because the level of competition was not for them anymore and it is already has shifted,

So I think if there would be a UFC VS Bellator fight card collaboration for me I think UFC will have many fighters winning than Bellator, I don't want to say there will be dominance on the UFC side but there will be a lot that may win on the UFC,

Bellator fighters are no joke and we saw that in this event with Rizin with full dominance and 5:0 result.
Picture would be much different with UFC fighters but I am sure Bellator would win fights again in some categories.
I like what happened and I want to see more tournaments like this in fiture.

I don't see any familiar names and there are a lot of newbies and rookies fighting in this card.
Main event could be interesting to watch because it is for Vacant Flyweight Championship, but I don't expect anything spectacular from rest of the fights.

LFA will start their first event in this year at January 6, it's LFA 149 where the main event is flyweight bout between Felipe Bunes vs Yuma Horiuchi, the co main event is heavyweight bout between Ben Tynan vs Henrique Silva. I think this event is more focus for Brazilian MMA fans, let's see if both Bunes and Silva can able make Brazilian fans are happy with their performance.



LFA 149 Quick Card
Felipe Bunes  vs.  Yuma Horiuchi 125 lbs
Ben Tynan  vs.  Henrique Silva 265 lbs
Marcus McGhee  vs.  Luciano Ramos 135 lbs
An Ho  vs.  E. De Los Santos 125 lbs
Eric McConico  vs.  Billy Elekana 185 lbs
Eric Fimbres  vs.  Tony Charles 185 lbs
Cedric Katambwa  vs.  Adam Garcia 155 lbs
Paul Marghitas  vs.  Bradley Emmett 145 lbs
Grace DiFrancesco  vs.  Kayla Reagan 115 lbs
Ezra Elliott  vs.  Nicholas Gjelaj 135 lbs

Source: https://www.tapology.com/fightcenter/events/95845-lfa-149-bunes-vs-horiuchi

I totally missed Cage Warriors 148 because of so much to do with the year-end party, I totally forget about it, and looking at the result of the fight it was surely pure entertainment to people that wants pure Brutality because most of the fights were finished with KO/TKO but surely because the event was the end-year many have sure missed it and I am 1 of those, but luckily there are replays online but trying to wait for good quality or non-click bait video because most on youtube was just click-baiting,


Too bad for Yoel Romero because his fight with Vadim Nemkov was scraped and canceled due to an undisclosed reason Nemkov Romero badly needed this fight to become champion and his not getting any younger as well so definitely he must take on the champion in that division now, but he just got to wait for his right opportunity,


It was total domination for Bellator and Kyoji Horiguchi is the only one that is the former bantamweight champion in both organizations I really don't know where he stands if he is in Bellator or Rizin, his last fight with Bellator was Bellator 279 that was April 23, 2022, and his recent fight was on Rizin 38 that was on September 25, 2022, but maybe he is in the Bellator side because his opponent Hiromasa Ougikubo was purely Rizin, or he can surely be both, but still, it was total domination for Bellator, and I wish there will be a UFC X Bellator collaboration in the future, or even LFA,

It was a total domanance from Bellator that evening. Every single fight was won by Bellator fighters. In general I like that kind of competition, where best fighters from one promotion compete against another. This closes lots of disputes “who is the best” and fighters did not have go leave promotion. Wish UFC would allow such things. To bad their contract are too exclusive. I think only once UFC allowed to fight outside the UFC. It was Chuck Liddell vs Rampage in pride ( P.S Chuck lost).

I was talking about Cage Warriors 148 event, not about future events in other competitions.
Paddy Pimblett that is now signed UFC fighters is one of the ex Cage Warriors fighters since 2013.
Free prelims for this event are available on their youtube channel for free, and main card can be watched on UFC fight pass:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JBE7eTrdIg

Khabib Nurmagomedov was in Japan watching Bellator vs Rizin event with his friend ScottCoker!


https://twitter.com/TeamKhabib/status/1609171303227101185