{"id":199860,"date":"2016-07-29T17:39:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T00:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=199860"},"modified":"2016-07-29T17:39:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T00:39:37","slug":"two-ufc-champions-pick-nate-diaz-to-defeat-conor-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nate-diaz\/two-ufc-champions-pick-nate-diaz-to-defeat-conor-mcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"Two UFC champions pick Nate Diaz to defeat Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/nate-diaz-vs-conor-mcgregor-2-official-for-ufc-202\/\">UFC 202 less than a month away<\/a>, the MMA community is torn on predictions for the welterweight rematch between Nate Diaz and Conor McGregor on August 20th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-nate-diaz-submits-conor-mcgregor\/\">Diaz won the pair&#8217;s first meeting<\/a> after stepping in on just two weeks notice. Given his ability to win the fight on such short notice, many believe that he will once again defeat McGregor.  On the other hand, many believe that McGregor will be able to fix the mistakes he made in the first fight, and emerge victorious.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-robin-black-breaks-down-robbie-lawler-vs-tyron-woodley\/\">UFC 201<\/a>, lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez and UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes were asked who they thought would win the rematch:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nunes and Alvarez pick Diaz over McGregor at UFC 202.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Guilherme Cruz (@guicruzzz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guicruzzz\/status\/759096805762162688\">July 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With UFC 202 less than a month away, the MMA community is torn on predictions for the welterweight rematch between Nate Diaz and Conor McGregor on August 20th. Diaz won the pair&#8217;s first meeting after stepping in on just two weeks notice. Given his ability to win the fight on such short notice, many believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":195781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10123],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Two UFC champions pick Nate Diaz 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\/nate-diaz\/two-ufc-champions-pick-nate-diaz-to-defeat-conor-mcgregor\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Two UFC champions pick Nate Diaz to defeat Conor McGregor | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With UFC 202 less than a month away, the MMA community is torn on predictions for the welterweight rematch between Nate Diaz and Conor McGregor on August 20th. 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