{"id":386647,"date":"2021-05-30T07:55:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T14:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=386647"},"modified":"2021-05-30T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T14:56:40","slug":"dana-white-explains-why-nate-diaz-vs-leon-edwards-was-scheduled-for-five-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-white-explains-why-nate-diaz-vs-leon-edwards-was-scheduled-for-five-rounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White explains why Nate Diaz vs. Leon Edwards was scheduled for five rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC president Dana White explained why the upcoming Nate Diaz vs. Leon Edwards welterweight bout at UFC 263 was scheduled for five rounds.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in UFC history, a fight other than a title bout or main event will be scheduled for 25 minutes when Diaz takes on Edwards on June 12 at UFC 263. The fight was originally slated as the co-main event for UFC 262 and was set for five rounds, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/nate-diaz-suffers-minor-injury-bout-with-leon-edwards-moved-to-ufc-263\/\">but even after the fight was moved to UFC 263<\/a>, which already has two five-round title fights set to take place, the fight between Edwards and Diaz was kept for the five rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/jon-jones-hires-veteran-boxing-promoter-as-dana-white-says-francis-ngannou-derrick-lewis-set-213928950.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports<\/a>, White explained why the UFC made the decision to go with Edwards vs. Diaz for five rounds, simply saying that&#8217;s what both fighters wanted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They wanted to fight five rounds. It was easy,&#8221; Dana White said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what they were scheduled for in the fight before (at UFC 262), too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With Diaz vs. Edwards propping up a card that already features UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya vs. Marvin Vettori 2 in the main event and Deiveson Figueiredo vs. Brandon Moreno 2 in the co-main event, White feels that UFC 263 is a stacked card.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you look at the card, every Saturday night I compete with something, whether you gotta take your wife out to dinner or there&#8217;s a new movie coming out, whatever it is, there&#8217;s always something we compete with on Saturday. When you look at this card, you&#8217;ve got Adesanya vs. Vettori, you got Figueiredo vs. Moreno which was in the running for &#8216;Fight of the Year&#8217; last year. If Weili Zhang vs. Joanna (Jedrzejczyk) hadn&#8217;t happened, they would have won. Then you have Edwards vs. Diaz. I mean the card is ridiculous. It&#8217;s a great card, it&#8217;s stacked from top to bottom, and (Edwards vs. Diaz) should have an impact on the pay-per-view,&#8221; White said.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you think takes the Nate Diaz vs. Leon Edwards fight at UFC 263?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC president Dana White explained why the upcoming Nate Diaz vs. Leon Edwards welterweight bout at UFC 263 was scheduled for five rounds. 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