Jake Paul Defeats Nate Diaz In A Aggressive And Entertaining Scrap

Jake Paul did what was anticipated on Saturday night time.

He scored a unanimous-decision victory (97-92, 98-91, 98-91) over Nate Diaz in an entertaining scrap that main-evented a DAZN boxing card on the American Airways Heart in Dallas, Texas.

Paul dropped Diaz within the fifth spherical with a brief left hook on the temple that despatched the MMA cult hero careening into the ropes.

Diaz received to his toes, regained his wherewithal and whereas he was principally outfought over the course of the 10-round bout, he by no means appeared to be in deep trouble for the remainder of the struggle.

In truth, Diaz made an excellent account of himself, contemplating this was his first skilled boxing match. For a lot of the final 4 rounds, Diaz was the aggressor, strolling a seemingly winded Paul down. Diaz walked by means of some critical photographs from Paul to land a number of combos of his personal, however he was unable to place the YouTube sensation-turned-boxer in any peril.

Sadly for Diaz, he lacked the approach and energy to capitalize on the ring actual property his toughness and seemingly bottomless fuel tank offered.

After the struggle, the 2 males agreed to a rematch underneath blended martial arts guidelines, which is able to in all probability be held on an upcoming Skilled Fighters League card, the promotion with whom Paul has an MMA deal. Based on Diaz and Paul, the MMA bout can pay the lads $10 million.

Diaz gave us all a preview of how that bout would possibly go when he teased a guillotine to Paul within the remaining spherical.

Listed below are the three main takeaways from Paul’s unanimous-decision win over Diaz.

• The Pauls’ reputation is exhibiting no signal of slowing down. After Logan Paul continued his WWE journey (he scored a victory over Ricochet at SummerSlam earlier on Saturday) he took a personal jet from Detroit to Dallas to see his brother defeat Diaz. Paul was nonetheless carrying the yellow and black ring gear he did this in as he sat ringside. Love or hate them, the Pauls are final needle movers.

• Diaz is as robust as they arrive. Regardless of his awkwardness and bizarre stability, he can take a shot with one of the best of them. Even with rudimentary boxing abilities, his stamina and endurance have been otherworldly on Saturday night time.
• The MMA bout might be going to be much more one-sided than this boxing match. Diaz is a greater blended martial artist than Paul is a boxer, and it is vitally doubtless the previous may finish their matchup inside the first two minutes–if he desires to ship followers dwelling early.

Be looking out for an announcement from PFL and/or Paul relating to the MMA-rules rematch. PFL is within the midst of their Playoff season because the featherweight and lightweight heavy heavyweights punched their tickets to championship bouts on Friday night time in San Antonio.

An announcement regarding Paul-Diaz II may come through the PFL Championships in November.