“I don’t like to leave the ring like this with my opponent still conscious. “For a fact, you gave me the love I’ll give you the love,” Masvidal told Diaz. It goes in the books as a TKO stoppage at 5:00 of the third round, but Masvidal (35-13 MMA, 11-6 UFC), for his part, made it clear he was unsatisfied with the premature stoppage and was ready to run things back as soon as possible. Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz delivered as advertised through the first three rounds of their UFC 244 welterweight main event for the “BMF” title Saturday night.ĭiaz (20-12 MMA, 15-10 UFC), however, was cut above and below his right eye, and while Diaz has fought his way through plenty worse in his career, Sethi took a cursory glance at Diaz between rounds and decided to call off the fight, much to the chagrin of the capacity crowd at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Sethi apparently decided he wanted to be the star of the show. On a night in which the president of the United States and Hollywood superstar Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson were both in the house, New York State Athletic Commission Chief Medical Officer Nitin K.
