It's going to happen again,' Masvidal said. 'We're going to run it back, so don't worry about it. Per UFC Stats, Masvidal outlanded Diaz in total strikes 139-87 through three rounds. Diaz repeatedly wiped blood away from his right eye but answered with flurries and slaps of his own. Masvidal, who improved to 3-0 in 2019, staggered Diaz with the lead right hand in the second round and continued to land combinations in the third. He hurt Diaz moments later with a kick to the head. He opened the cut in the first round, with a hard left elbow in the clinch. Regardless of what might have happened in the last two rounds, there was no question that Masvidal, of Miami, was ahead at the time of the stoppage.

'I didn't think they were going to stop it,' he said. There's only one way to do it, and that's to baptize them, and I didn't get to baptize Nate, so we're going to run it back.'ĭiaz said he was shocked that the doctor stopped the fight. I don't like to leave the ring like this with my opponent conscious. 'For a fact, I told Nate right now, let's run it back,' Masvidal said in his postfight interview in the Octagon. The cut was definitely leaking blood into Diaz's right eye, but it did not appear to be significantly worse than cuts in fights other commissions have allowed to continue.īoth Masvidal (35-13) and Diaz (20-12) expressed interest in an immediate rematch. The bout ended unexpectedly, as a ringside physician for the New York State Athletic Commission decided to wave it off between the third and fourth rounds because of a cut over Diaz's right eye. The nontitle welterweight bout, which was promoted as a BMF belt fight, headlined UFC 244 on Saturday at Madison Square Garden. That distinction belongs to veteran welterweight Jorge Masvidal as of Saturday, as he soundly defeated Diaz via third-round TKO. NEW YORK - Nate Diaz might be a bad man, but he isn't the baddest - at least not for now.

Jorge Masvidal dominates fight stopped due to Nate Diaz cut

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