{"id":129115,"date":"2015-02-11T09:33:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=129115"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:50:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:50:40","slug":"justin-buchholz-training-nate-diaz-hes-trying-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/justin-buchholz-training-nate-diaz-hes-trying-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparring With Nate Diaz, A First Hand Account"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nate<\/a><\/p>\n

Team Alpha Male Radio returned this week with another episode of the live video podcast. Hosts Justin Buchholz and Chris Carlino AKA Sir Studboy, took calls all night and talked about the hottest topics in MMA.<\/p>\n

At one point the Diaz brothers came up in conversation, leading Buchholz to tell the story about the first time he trained with younger brother Nate.<\/p>\n

“I was in the gym and I had a fight with somebody important, I can’t remember who, but it was the first time ever sparring with Nate [Diaz] and he came in, and I was doing four 5 minute rounds of boxing sparring only. He\u2019s a really good boxer, he\u2019s like an exhausting boxer. I get in the ring and I\u2019m expecting to do 5 minutes with Nate and then a fresh guy will come I and I\u2019ll do 5 minutes with him. So the first round is crazy, I throw more punches than I\u2019ve ever thrown in my life and he\u2019s just like doing his normal thing you know and the round ends and I look over my shoulder and I think \u2018Oh sh*t, this guy\u2019s not getting out, he\u2019s in here to kill me.\u2019 So I\u2019m like oh my god it\u2019s round 2 now, 5 more minutes of this sh*t. We start sparring again and it\u2019s the same sh*t, he\u2019s just slipping outside my cross, grabs me up and just starts upper-cutting me, we\u2019re just fighting in the clinch, all dirty. Five more minutes go by and I\u2019m in fight shape, as far as I\u2019m concerned Nate Diaz just walked in the gym, I don\u2019t even know if he has a fight or whatever.”<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m fighting in two weeks and we\u2019re through round 2 and I\u2019m fu*king more tired than I\u2019ve ever been in my life and I look over in my corner again and again he\u2019s not getting out. I\u2019m like holy sh*t dude. I\u2019m like \u2018Hey you want another fresh guy to come in,\u2019 he\u2019s like \u2018No man I\u2019m cool\u2019. So we go three 5 minute rounds, again, same sh*t, we\u2019re just trying to kill each other.”<\/p>\n

“So round 3 ends and round 4 starts, so we spar 20 minutes. I get out of there with my life intact, like I\u2019ve never pushed my cardio so hard in my life. I get done, I\u2019m sitting on the end of the ring and then he walks up to me and is like \u2018Hey man you want to do jiu-jitsu?\u2019 I\u2019m like f*ck!”<\/p>\n

The segment in question is best told by Justin himself, and we’ve included the clip below:<\/p>\n