{"id":449551,"date":"2022-06-06T00:27:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T07:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=449551"},"modified":"2022-06-06T00:27:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T07:27:20","slug":"chael-sonnen-explains-why-the-ufc-will-likely-avoid-a-second-fight-between-jorge-masvidal-and-nate-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/chael-sonnen-explains-why-the-ufc-will-likely-avoid-a-second-fight-between-jorge-masvidal-and-nate-diaz\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen explains why the UFC will likely avoid a second fight between Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MMA analyst Chael Sonnen has explained why he doesn&#8217;t think the UFC will book Jorge Masvidal vs Nate Diaz 2.<\/p>\n<p>Way back at UFC 244 in late 2019, Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz fought for the BMF title at Madison Square Garden. While Diaz wasn&#8217;t exactly at the height of his powers, Masvidal was coming off the back of a remarkable year that saw him knock out both Darren Till and Ben Askren in huge welterweight clashes.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in mid-2022, &#8216;Gamebred&#8217; has said that <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jorge-masvidal-offers-to-sendoff-nate-diaz-for-final-ufc-fight-i-wouldnt-mind-breaking-his-jaw\/\">he&#8217;d be open<\/a> to sending Diaz off into the sunset for the Stockton king&#8217;s final UFC fight.<\/p>\n<p>Chael Sonnen, though, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MLZOHWMggNk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doesn&#8217;t necessarily think<\/a> this is the route the UFC is going to go down.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jorge Masvidal&#039;s going down the wrong road...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MLZOHWMggNk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIs he going in the wrong direction? We don\u2019t know, he isn\u2019t doing anything wrong. He\u2019s doing exactly what he should be doing but let\u2019s just take a good look real fast at Nate vs Masvidal. Yes, we wanna see it, yes, that\u2019s going to be a big fight, okay. But, you do need to look at it from the organisation\u2019s standpoint. In an attempt to guess, is that something they want to sign off on? It looks like Nate is going to go afterwards, it\u2019s a tremendous risk, to put a huge star that you\u2019ve got under contract, it\u2019s just a huge risk, be careful how you do that. Then what would even happen with a win? Where would Jorge go from there? I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s the capacity he\u2019s going to be used in, I\u2019m not sold on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masvidal vs Diaz is the kind of feud that the UFC could pick back up again whenever they want but with Diaz having one foot out of the door, and with Conor McGregor always looming large, it&#8217;s hard to picture a scenario in which it happens again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMA analyst Chael Sonnen has explained why he doesn&#8217;t think the UFC will book Jorge Masvidal vs Nate Diaz 2. Way back at UFC 244 in late 2019, Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz fought for the BMF title at Madison Square Garden. While Diaz wasn&#8217;t exactly at the height of his powers, Masvidal was coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":331440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10104,10515,10123,39610],"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>Chael Sonnen explains why the UFC will likely avoid a second fight between Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MMA analyst Chael Sonnen has explained why he doesn&#039;t think the UFC will book Jorge Masvidal vs Nate Diaz 2.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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