UFC welterweight standout Randy Brown believes Nate Diaz will get “destroyed” contained in the squared circle with social media sensation Jake Paul.
After 15 years of competing contained in the Octagon, Nate Diaz will make his extremely anticipated professional boxing debut because the Stockton Samurai is ready to sq. off with Jake Paul contained in the American Airways Heart in Dallas on August 5. Regardless of having one of many extra celebrated stand-up video games in blended martial arts, Diaz is listed as a +245 underdog a month earlier than the bout is scheduled to go down. In accordance with Randy Brown, these odds sound about proper based mostly on Diaz’s talent set versus that of his opponent.
“I believe Nate Diaz doesn’t have nice boxing, I believe he has nice components of boxing, I believe there’s issues that he incorporates properly from boxing in his recreation and he has nice drop punches as a result of he carries his arms very excessive so there’s no inform after which he simply drops them on you,” Brown informed InsideFighting.
Jake Paul is presently 6-1 in his profession as an expert boxer. Most of these victories have come in opposition to non-boxers, together with former NBA star Nate Robinson and ex-MMA world champions Ben Askren, Tyron Woodley, and Anderson Silva. His lone loss got here in opposition to the one reliable boxer he has confronted in his profession, Tommy Fury.
Randy Brown Doesn’t Like Nate Diaz’s Possibilities Towards Jake Paul
With an undeniably strong report in opposition to former UFC stars, many combat followers, together with Randy Brown, aren’t giving Nate Diaz a lot of an opportunity when he straps on the 10-ounce gloves for a scrap with ‘The Downside Youngster.’
“I believe he [Diaz] will get destroyed in a boxing match. Jake Paul is a boxer by this level, now we have to offer credit score the place credit score is due and he’s a boxer,” Brown mentioned. “He may not be a particularly high-level boxer however at this level, he’s boxing primarily you realize that’s the place he spends most of his time whereas lots of MMA fighters now we have to separate our time between so many various issues. It’s been a couple of years now, realistically I take a look at him now as a very good beginner” (h/t MMA Information).
Making his promotional debut on season 5 of The Final Fighter, Nate Diaz went 16-11 throughout his 15-year run with the UFC. Diaz has gone toe-to-toe with a few of the greatest lightweights within the historical past of the game, together with Anthony Pettis, ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone, Grey Maynard, Jim Miller, Takanori Gomi, Benson Henderson, Rafael dos Anjo, and Rory MacDonald. His greatest profession win got here at UFC 196 when he submitted Conor McGregor through a rear-naked choke.
