Strikeforce Results: Nick Diaz TKO's Paul Daley
Posted on April 9, 2011, 10:56 PM by Anton GurevichIn one of the most entertaining rounds in MMA history, Nick Diaz retained his Strikeforce Welterweght title with a TKO victory over Paul "Semtex" Daley.
The fight started with Diaz taunting Daley, but the Cesar Gracie product quickly tasted some of Brit's power, finding himself with face down on the canvas. However, Daley was unable to finish the fight, giving Diaz an opportunity to recover. Nick Diaz got back on his feet, unleashing fury on Paul Daley. Now it was "Semtex" who was hurt, and forced to counter punch in order to defend himself.
But counter-puncher or not, Paul Daley managed to hurt Nick Diaz again. The Champion once again found himself with face down on the canvas, as Daley went very close to finishing the fight and becoming the new Strikeforce Welterweight Champion.
Then, in an awkward Deja-vu moment, Diaz managed to stand up on his feet. And once again, the Champ unleashed the fury at Daley at the fence, looking to finish the fight. Daley managed to push Nick Diaz away, but he was already KO'd on his feet. The British challenger wobbled and fell down on his back, and it was nothing but a short way from there for Nick Diaz to finish the fight just a few seconds before the end of Round 1.
Diaz improves his record to 25-7, and is without a doubt one of the top Mixed Martial Artists in the world today. Strikeforce Welterweight Champion makes a great case for challenging the winner of Jake Shields and George St. Pierre (if GSP is victorious), in case the UFC decide to make the Anderson Silva vs. Yushin Okami fight official for UFC: Rio.
Photo: Esther Lin for Strikeforce
Comments
Yea ill give it to him Diaz is the top fighter in his weight class in (Strikefore) but sorry the guys gonna be in a whole nother world when he steps back in the (UFC) the top WW in the ufc will pick diaz apart
i had daley to win by ko rd 2. I really like diaz but he does leave himself open to taking too many shots(gomi-zaromskis-cyborg) and even though he has a good chin i thought against daley with daley's power it would cost him the belt, but fair play he is still the champ.
im a huge Diaz fan, but i was so nervous during the that fight i stood the whole time. Im STILL shocked he won that by TKO. I was just a fanboy but i think it fair to say now he is a legit force to be reckoned with in the WW division.
@Angeles, kid, you are a clueless tool. stop moving the goal post and accept the FACT that Nick is one of the top fighters in MMA!
He would DESTROY Mr. Playing it Safe GSP in the same dominating style he just destroyed this load-mouth, one dimensional Brit!
Considering Jake will beat the limp-wristed, Candian champ, Nick will move on to other note worthy fights!
SUCK IT HATING BITCHES!!!!!! LMFAO
wow you are calling people hating bitches yet your doing a lot of shit talking yourself..or do you think its ok to hate when its you doing the hating..you are a hypocritical jackass
yes diaz is a great fighter i would like to see him fight a guy like thiago alves or kampmann. as far as gsp goes nick achilles heel has always been strong wrestlers. if you look at his losses almost all of them have been against wrestlers who have taken him down and controlled him and in some cases dominated him (it is one of the reasons nick always complains about wrestling in mma). given those losses all happened several years ago and nick definatley seems to be a reinvented fighter since then . we have yet to see if he has improved in the wrestling department as strikeforce just does not have the caliber of grapplers in their ww div as the ufc does.
Wow Swamp, you've just managed to write things that I half agree with (half) and still make me think less of you.
@postmortem, and GSP's achilles heelssss is anyone striking power, anyone who will actually go after him non stop and anyone he can't runaway from.
GSP has retained his title by PLAYING IT SAFE after Serra showed the world his glass chin!
Serra has power in his punches. I wouldn't go so far as to say GSP has a glass jaw.
Glass chin? Lmao. GSP's chin has been tested numerous times. Penn battered his face in their first fight and couldn't knock him out. Serra landed a good temple shot and GSP slipped and because his equilibrium was messed, couldn't gain balance.
GSP would own Diaz standing and on the ground easily all day. GSP has two inches on Nick's reach and the best timing = Nick pwnt.
I would pick Georges to win but there is no way he would "own Diaz standing". He may get the better of the exchanges like he did in the Alves fight but he would not own him.
@swamp rat
ahh...Serra 2, Hardy(?), Koschek 2. what else you got?
Yeah, that worked out great for Thiago Alves and Dan Hardy.
@michaelchimique, quit whining, you weak ass lil sh*t. The Diaz haters can't take some of the same sh*t the put out?
SUCK IT BITCH!
im not whining asshole im stating a fact you are talking shit acting all mad because people were hating on diaz yet you went around and did the same thing so i called u on it..don't talk about people hating when your doing the same damn thing
Angeles, i politely urge you to..
Go **** yourself
Diaz is a great fighter with a lot of heart and an iron chin.
Don't be a hater homie! He is p4p material IMO
By the way, don't ever let Diaz's crazy interviews fool you again.
Lmao like one of the MODS said to me...Dont Take It Personal Lmao calm the F**k down cool you have your own opinion to :D keep it comin yall haha
Wrong. Diaz, himself, is in a whole "nother" world my friend. I don't see him losing anywhere, anytime soon, including in the UFC.
Hell yea, soon everyone will realize that its all in the technique and not in the big muscles and cutting weight and having 3 to 5 rounds of gay sex
It's all technique? So, controlling and grappling and preventing someone from getting up requires no technique what so ever? GSP owns his opponents. He punches them when he wants. He takes them down when he wants. He controls them and man handles them. If there were no rounds, his opponents would die from exhaustion and punishment.
you obviously are not a tecnician, and i said nothing about gsp he is a great fighter im talkin guys like fitch, lesnar, rashad evans etc, i would much rather see a more technicle fighter like Dominick Cruz or Anderson Silva fight anyday
How can you say that, I don't remember Daley fighting GSP?
If your a striker you don't play a grapplers game, vice versa, the difference is GSP does both and more. Comparing day to night man.
Why does everybody keep crying "toe to toe"!? It's MMA!! Not boxing! Wrestling, JJU, Muy Thai, ...for ****sakes!! MMA
because it was beautiful to watch
what now Lowkick.com you ****in retards, Diaz top10P4P
Fight was stopped too soon, Daley was rocked but he fell over cause he broke his own ankle(not literally, just a basketball term). His guard was still up and he was still coherent, 3 seconds left. Has Big John always sucked as a referee? Since he came back this is like the 3rd bad call....Also Dr. Robotnik ruined the Mousasi fight, that upkick didnt do anything, and the "nut shot" didnt look like it landed. Jardine thought he was gonna get a cut check but he realized it was for a nut shot and half assed acted like his nuts hurt for 3 seconds lol....Or am I imagining things??
Your words don't even touch your brain before going to your mouth, do they?
The "words" comment was directed at Angelo
Lmao Dr. Robotnik ... thats such a good call, your right ... looks exactly like him ha ha
Stop Nut-Huggin' Big Mouth Daley... he got ROCKED.. and he was DONE... after the fight was stopped he couldn't even get up. They had to help him to get up and sit on the chair, he was DONE... deal with it !!
SUCK IT BITCHES!!!!
haters hate on Diaz and once again, he shuts you p*ckerheads the f*ck up!
LMFAO....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
LMFAO at the "weaks"!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Nick's balls in your mouth!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
more like nicks balls in your mouth you seem to be kissing his ass enough..dude diaz won not you quit acting like a tough guy online
I am a Diaz fan and picked him to win and I still weaked you.
Sadly he's not a tough guy. He is probably a little overweight (or even deathly skinny) and lives with his parents.
Just amazing....Diaz is the man, went toe to toe with one of the most dangerous strikers in MMA and stopped him, sick fight
How can you not like a true fighter like that- he comes to fight every time. And to go after Daley like that, hands down, chin out- I loved that sh*t.
CRAZY FIGHT! At the start I was like god dam Daley is taking this easy, then I called the Diaz TKO, I then thoguht is that Daley coming back? Then my Diaz call came through!
I like Diaz as a fighter but how he talked to Ariel Helwani made me think a lot less of him outside the cage, thug!
You are wrong (no surprise). I just don't like unappreciative people like Diaz treating the best Journalist in the entire sport of MMA like garbage... to his face! Every single time he has a fight, whether it be before, during or after the fight he manages to act unprofessional.
He moans about not being appreciated and then treats Ariel Helwani like dirt? Grow up THUG!
No doubt! Always acts like the man, but cries around about being "Forced" to do this interview. Take your MONEY and go fight for Bellator so we don't have to hear your ungrateful ass bitchin' about yellow cards anymore. Oh yeah, MMA includes...mmh(wrestlers).
he might not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he fights with a confident intuition and killer instinct. much respect
Diaz is a great fighter but an absolute thug outside the cage. He shut up all the Daley fans tonight in a fashion that none of them though possible. He hasn't got an iron chin so shut the fook up. He has great recovery. Different story all together. DON'T try to put him in GSP's class because he's not. Daley wouldn't & would never have troubled GSP.
Kos may have ground out a decision but it shows Daleys 1 dimension fighting style is so obvious.
Diaz is a raw talent & that is rare. He is not the athlete that GSP is. STOP & I mean STOP trying to put Diaz above GSP. Until the two step in the cage or octagon the truth won't be known. So shut it. STOP dreaming. Diaz may get his chance in the UFC again but until he grows a brain & stops being a thug he may never get that chance.
SAD BUT TRUE!
Speak on it barochoc.
yeah man, their predictions were were ****in off
awesome preformance by diaz just moved into the top five ww in my opinion. when i first watched the fight i thought that nick was in some serious trouble but watching it a second time it seems that when caught with a good shot nick just likes to drop to the mat if i remember right he did it against zaramsisks to
Did it seem like Daley kinda gassed himself a little? Not to take anything away from Diaz he is exceptional, but from my point of view I kinda thought Daley looked a little tired when he got Diaz to the ground on that punch which dropped him. I haven't got a second chance to watch the fight but thats my preliminary thought
@nobleteam, No it seemed like Daley was out classed and outstruck by one of the best strikers in all of MMA!
Outclassed is like what John Jones did to Shogun or like what GSP did to Koscheck. This fight obviously could have gone either way. Therefore, nobody was outclassed.
I was at the fight and I was noticing Daley getting tired early. If he wasn't so tired I think he could have finished it. However, I give nuff respect to Diaz for surviving twice and finishing the fight before the round ended. However, I didn't like the unsportsmanlike conduct in the end. Going after a guy you just TKO'ed while he's sitting in the stool you already won?... That's some BS. He's gotta work that out. Entertaining fight though.
if u didnt notice he gassed after the constant body shots, thats what slowed him down..
I don't even think it was the body shots. He hasn't experienced that pace in a long time. When he was T'ing off on him the second time he should have hit him on the other side(with his left). He was hitting Diaz's arm. A little more experience and learning from small mistakes like that can take Daley far. Both fighters did well AND I think Big John fu@ked it up at the end. Daley was still trying to defend himself and I'm convinced that it was a premature stoppage.. Gotta give both fighters credit though.
I just watched it again and I think that stoppage may have been premature. Oh well..Would have been nice to see a second round
It's nice when something like this happens. Everyone hates on Diaz and because of it they pick against him. Haha. Good job Nick. I can't stand when haters get the last laugh.
I'm not a fan of Daley but i think he should have won that fight after knocking out Diaz when he had the chance. Big John did a terrible job at refereeing...I guess his stomach got in the way, lol
I just now watched the fight for a second and third time, and i think it was a bad call by the ref, Daley looked okay to me, i think he could have lasted another 5 seconds until the end of the round, although Daley took his time getting up, i'm not sure if that was cause he was tired/upset, rocked or if he had hurt his knee. I like both Diaz and Daley and it was a great fight but i just feel like the fight was kind of ruined by the stoppage.
YEAH that was a sweet fight i cant beieve what happened the fight made me nervous for nick diaz as he loooked way too confident mocking daley with his hands dropped like he does i really liked his body shots to dayey they were sweet then i couldnt believe the better boxing diaz did on him that was outstanding i cant believe how cool that was
there was a fool of a lowkick member that said (either on the wall or on an article) that Diaz would do the Stanky leg. it looked like Daley was actually doing that instead haha
I am a big fan of Lowkick and big fan of MMA and I don't judges Nick Diaz personal life and Paul Daley let's put that aside.But I have to admitted Nick is a great Champion with a heart never give it up to entertaining and hes deserved a credit for hard work paid off as well as recognition.imo
Well - I got that one wrong; I picked PD. Nick looked great.
Like em or hate em, you need to respect his abilities. Daley lacked the ability to control the fight and against the Diaz brothers (who both have notable chin strength), it was obviously the losing factor. Had Daley been able to keep Diaz controlled after getting him dazed, Daley would be wearing the belt.
Diaz needs to really look at his minor weaknesses if he wants to become professional. However with his s**** attitude, I doubt he ever will.
When I say Diaz brothers, I am just referring to both of them being strong competitors to KO/TKO.