{"id":272165,"date":"2018-03-09T11:05:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T19:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=272165"},"modified":"2018-03-09T11:05:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T19:05:57","slug":"jon-anik-believes-nate-diaz-moves-the-needle-even-without-conor-mcgregor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nate-diaz\/jon-anik-believes-nate-diaz-moves-the-needle-even-without-conor-mcgregor\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Anik Believes Nate Diaz Moves The Needle Even Without Conor McGregor"},"content":{"rendered":"

We haven’t seen Nate Diaz since he won the Conor McGregor lottery twice. We haven’t seen Nick Diaz for way longer<\/a>. It’s understandable. For selfish reasons, we’d love to see the Stockton soldiers back in the Octagon slapping their opponents, but both are making a good living with a wide variety of sponsors, endorsements, appearances and seminars. If they did come back, Jon Anik is convinced that they would put a significant boost in pay-per-view draws, with or without McGregor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re asking me, I think [Nate Diaz] is a top five pay-per-view draw in the company right now. I think Daniel Cormier is in that mix because he\u2019s been buoyed by the two Jon Jones fights. But I think Nate Diaz can carry a pay-per-view without Conor McGregor. Will he be afforded that opportunity? I don\u2019t know.\u00a0I\u2019m not sure we\u2019re going to see Nick [Diaz] again, but I definitely think we are going to see Nate Diaz. I think it\u2019s interesting when you talk about him as a pay-per-view draw. What do the internal metrics say about how much Nate Diaz moves that needle relative to his opponent Conor McGregor?”<\/em><\/p>\n

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