Nate Diaz<\/a> who was selected by the UFC as a late replacement opponent for McGregor. To add another twist to the anticipation of the last-minute fight, McGregor accepted to fight another weight class up at welterweight above his originally scheduled lightweight bout with dos Anjos.<\/p>\nCheck out what BJ Penn says Nate Diaz must do to beat Conor McGregor in the exclusive video above.<\/p>\n
Do you feel a specific game plan is needed for Diaz and McGregor? Share your fight knowledge and share your gameplan with us in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[ooyala code=”Bld2tkMTE68Eoa558oHlL26rmpwrwt5_” player_id=”bd214e34cfad476984102de4bf5e8da2″ width=”1280″ height=”720″ auto=”true” autoplay=”true”] Last week when it was announced that UFC lightweight Rafael dos Anjos had broken his foot and had to pull out of his fight with UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor, the MMA world went crazy. While many fighters were hoping to get a chance to dethrone McGregor, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54422,"featured_media":187396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10143,2682],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Exclusive Video: BJ Penn explains which strength Nate Diaz must utilize to defeat Conor McGregor | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Exclusive Video: BJ Penn explains which strength Nate Diaz must utilize to defeat Conor McGregor | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[ooyala code=”Bld2tkMTE68Eoa558oHlL26rmpwrwt5_” player_id=”bd214e34cfad476984102de4bf5e8da2″ width=”1280″ height=”720″ auto=”true” autoplay=”true”] Last week when it was announced that UFC lightweight Rafael dos Anjos had broken his foot and had to pull out of his fight with UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor, the MMA world went crazy. While many fighters were hoping to get a chance to dethrone McGregor, it […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"| BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-02-29T21:38:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-02-29T21:42:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-26-at-2.46.49-PM.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"730\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"380\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Russell Ess\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@bjpenndotcom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@bjpenndotcom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Russell Ess\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Russell Ess\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/38bb728c4095a34ce673601d63c55be3\"},\"headline\":\"Exclusive Video: BJ Penn explains which strength Nate Diaz must utilize to defeat Conor McGregor\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-02-29T21:38:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-02-29T21:42:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/\"},\"wordCount\":177,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"BJ Penn\",\"Videos\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2016\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/\",\"name\":\"Exclusive Video: BJ Penn explains which strength Nate Diaz must utilize to defeat Conor McGregor | BJPenn.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-02-29T21:38:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-02-29T21:42:04+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"MMA News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"BJ Penn\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bj-penn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Exclusive Video: BJ Penn explains which strength Nate Diaz must utilize to defeat Conor McGregor\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\",\"name\":\"| BJPenn.com\",\"description\":\"MMA & UFC News, Results & Fight Videos\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\",\"name\":\"| BJPenn.com\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":148,\"caption\":\"| BJPenn.com\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bjpenndotcom\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/0fficialbjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjpenndotcom\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/38bb728c4095a34ce673601d63c55be3\",\"name\":\"Russell Ess\",\"description\":\"Bringing you the latest buzzing fight news and entertaining fight related tidbits.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/BJPENN.COM\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/russel-saito\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Exclusive Video: BJ Penn explains which strength Nate Diaz must utilize to defeat Conor McGregor | BJPenn.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Exclusive Video: BJ Penn explains which strength Nate Diaz must utilize to defeat Conor McGregor | BJPenn.com","og_description":"[ooyala code=”Bld2tkMTE68Eoa558oHlL26rmpwrwt5_” player_id=”bd214e34cfad476984102de4bf5e8da2″ width=”1280″ height=”720″ auto=”true” autoplay=”true”] Last week when it was announced that UFC lightweight Rafael dos Anjos had broken his foot and had to pull out of his fight with UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor, the MMA world went crazy. While many fighters were hoping to get a chance to dethrone McGregor, it […]","og_url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/","og_site_name":"| BJPenn.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn","article_published_time":"2016-02-29T21:38:38+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-02-29T21:42:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":730,"height":380,"url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-26-at-2.46.49-PM.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Russell Ess","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@bjpenndotcom","twitter_site":"@bjpenndotcom","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Russell Ess","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/"},"author":{"name":"Russell Ess","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/38bb728c4095a34ce673601d63c55be3"},"headline":"Exclusive Video: BJ Penn explains which strength Nate Diaz must utilize to defeat Conor McGregor","datePublished":"2016-02-29T21:38:38+00:00","dateModified":"2016-02-29T21:42:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/"},"wordCount":177,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"},"articleSection":["BJ Penn","Videos"],"inLanguage":"en-US","copyrightYear":"2016","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/","name":"Exclusive Video: BJ Penn explains which strength Nate Diaz must utilize to defeat Conor McGregor | BJPenn.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-02-29T21:38:38+00:00","dateModified":"2016-02-29T21:42:04+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/exclusive-video-bj-penn-gives-insight-on-diazs-strengths\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"MMA News","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"BJ Penn","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bj-penn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Exclusive Video: BJ Penn explains which strength Nate Diaz must utilize to defeat Conor McGregor"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/","name":"| BJPenn.com","description":"MMA & UFC News, Results & Fight Videos","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization","name":"| BJPenn.com","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png","contentUrl":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png","width":600,"height":148,"caption":"| BJPenn.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/instagram.com\/bjpenn","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bjpenn","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bjpenndotcom\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/0fficialbjpenn","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn","https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjpenndotcom"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/38bb728c4095a34ce673601d63c55be3","name":"Russell Ess","description":"Bringing you the latest buzzing fight news and entertaining fight related tidbits.","sameAs":["http:\/\/BJPENN.COM"],"url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/russel-saito\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}