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Nate Diaz doesn’t think he lost to Conor McGregor: ‘He did a lot of running away’
- Updated: August 21, 2016
LAS VEGAS — Conor McGregor beat Nate Diaz at UFC 202. That’s what the record books will show. Diaz, though, begs to differ.
The Stockton tough believes he was the rightful victor at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday night. He isn’t sure how McGregor took a majority decision (48-47, 47-47, 48-47) on the judges’ cards.
“I didn’t think for a second that I lost at the end of the fight,” Diaz said after the fight. “I thought I won the fight, at least from round two since we’re judging by rounds.”
Diaz referenced McGregor’s strategy of disengaging and going back to the center of the cage multiple times. He thought McGregor should have been docked a point or two for stalling.
“I think he did a lot of running away that in the old days or in a real fight I think you’d get pointed for it,” Diaz said. “Or in boxing you’d get pointed for it. So I think they should have taken a point from him for running and I think I would have brought the action it would have …
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