RE: Did Nate Diaz really screw up in the last minute at 263?
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You seems to be a BIG fan of Nate Diaz and what a fighter he is!!!!
He doesn't seems to be much fazed by that blood all over his body every time he fights.
Good match in the final, but as you said, he might have screwed the match by not attacking much in the end.
Just a question, with so much money involved in such individual fights, is there scope for fixing like we see in many other sports?
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I just found out that Nate Diaz had a guaranteed purse of over a million dollars and it was going to be that way win or lose. Perhaps this is why Diaz seemed to be more interested in entertaining the crowd than on winning.
Just like with any sport you can gamble on, the answer to this is "how much did the person bet?" The pre-fight Vegas odds for Edwards was +500 so if Nate had someone he knows that bet say, $10 million on Edwards, they would make $5 million in payout. Of course something this huge would probably be noticed by the athletic commission so instead it could have been hundreds of people making smaller bets.
It's just speculation but in my mind Diaz could have KO'd Leon, but appeared to choose not to, especially with 10 seconds left and Leon reeling and barely standing, Diaz chooses to hug him instead of deal the finishing moves.