Sorry Conor, Jorge Masvidal vs Nate Diaz rematch should occur subsequent after UFC 244 physician stoppage

Conor McGregor had all of it deliberate out. He’d get a win on his UFC return on January 18, then tackle the winner of UFC 244’s “BMF” title struggle. However that plan might should be placed on maintain after an anticlimactic end to the massive bout.

It was an enormous night time. The struggle was for the “BMF” belt that was carried into the world by none apart from “The Rock”. The president of the USA himself, Donald Trump, was in attendance.

Even the world championship boxing match between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Sergei Kovalev was placed on maintain till UFC 244 had reached its conclusion. Remarkably, the MGM Grand even managed to strike a quickfire cope with ESPN to display the UFC foremost occasion struggle within the area for the boxing followers to look at within the meantime.

And when the motion obtained underway, the struggle lived as much as the hype. Masvidal and Diaz threw down in typical trend and served up three rounds of MMA gold at Madison Sq. Backyard earlier than the cageside physician interjected himself into the narrative and known as a cease to the motion simply earlier than the beginning of the fourth spherical.

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It meant Masvidal picked up the TKO victory, and the “BMF” belt, nevertheless it left the followers feeling a bit of quick modified. Now the clamor is there for a rematch, and Masvidal laid the desk for precisely that in his post-fight interview when he advised the followers: “We’re operating it again!”

?️ "We're going to run it again."@GamebredFighter guarantees to be a preventing #BMF champion! #UFC244 pic.twitter.com/a4EmNaGgwr

— UFC Europe (@UFCEurope) November three, 2019

If the UFC’s brass agrees – and, given the industrial success of this occasion, they in all probability will – it means we’ll see Masvidal and Diaz do it yet again in 2020. And, given the necessity for Diaz to heal up his cuts, which have been vital, it in all probability means they gained’t face off once more till late spring or early summer season, on the earliest.

That throws a spanner within the works of McGregor’s plans to face the winner, and signifies that “The Infamous” might have to sit down tight and watch for Masvidal and Diaz to bop once more earlier than he will get a chance to face the victor.

And whereas that is perhaps a contact irritating for “The Infamous”, it would change into extra profitable. A rematch with Diaz could be enormous, regardless. However Masvidal seemed to be properly on his method to an unassisted victory earlier than the physician’s intervention, and one other spectacular show within the rematch will solely develop his star even additional.

It signifies that whoever wins that return bout shall be a good larger draw as a McGregor opponent in late 2020, and maybe a return to the scene of tonight’s struggle at Madison Sq. Backyard could possibly be on the playing cards for Conor in opposition to the winner of the rematch.

They are saying good issues come to those that wait, and if Conor actually needs to show he’s the UFC’s true “BMF”, he might need to just do that.

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