Strikeforce Miami Fight by Fight Coverage: Nick Diaz Runs Over Marius Zaromskis to Win the Strikeforce Welterweight Championship
by Michael Rome on Jan 31, 2010 1:11 AM EST
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Talk about all action. Both guys decided to just throw punches instead of defending anything, and Diaz won the war. It was a good win for Diaz, who doesn't exactly have a lot of contenders at his weight. On the bright side, we'll see a few more interviews with Ariel Helwani. Jay Hieron is next (maybe), and while I'd take Diaz in that fight, he'll be the first guy in a while looking to take Diaz down.
The first round started with pure fireworks. The two exchanged flurry after flurry. Both men landed before Diaz went into the clinch and started landing knees to the leg. Coming out of the clinch, it looked like Marius was in big trouble, but then he dropped Diaz! Zaromskis was not able to follow up, Diaz survived, and then came back to finish the fight with a great flurry of punches.
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Poor man’s Ed Soares
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by Brent Brookhouse on Jan 31, 2010 12:29 AM EST up reply actions 3 recs
Way to steal my premise from the discussion with Luke
you jerkbag. I’m suing you for plagiarism! And calling the cops on you… for… mopery! Yeah!
"Someone is WRONG on the internet. What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!"
-Randall Munroe
if i were dream, i’d say the fight wasn’t under dream rules so it doesn’t matter in regards to the belt, but there is still the problem of you champ being ko’d
This exact
scenario is why I am against co promotion.
So pumped!!!
I F-ing love Diaz and loved how many ppl on here were hating on him all week underestimating him and his power punching. It looks like all the haters get to suck it for awhile!
I don’t really think he’s over-rated. He’s just overhyped. He is a solid fighter, this wa s bad match up for him in diaz because of the size and reach of diaz…if he let diaz up after he dropped him and hadn’t of given him time to recover on the floor, the fight could’ve been his.
I look forward to him fighting in the future. Why not give him Joe Rigg’s?
by moonlapse88 on Jan 31, 2010 12:27 AM EST up reply actions
Bad match up.
I agree, Nick Diaz is a bad match up for a lot of fighters. He is a very talented fighter, and he’s really pissed off. Nick is also getting better and his power punches are getting stronger. This makes two Japanese champions he’s beat. Nick Diaz is the real deal.
Diaz wasn't hurt that bad...
He did catch one good one, but went down more due to balance/choice… It was a good shot, but I don’t think there was as much danger as it originally seemed
I'm like PacMan fightin you silly kids... throw ya Hatton the ring, and get knocked outlike Ricky did.
lol.
I think it was a bad match up for him..
too tall, too accurate.. and like he said, it was hard to get those head kicks in.
by Anton Tabuena on Jan 31, 2010 12:28 AM EST up reply actions
The guy holds a belt and was fighting for another one, at that level you should be able to adjust for those kinds of things.
I think he’s too green for that kind of dynamic adjustment now. Once he gets some training in raining that pain while keeping his form up I think we’ll be able to say that about him.
My bad
I didn’t realize he was over-rated. I just knew he put on fun fights with sloppy striking. What else was he known for?
i think marcus looked good…i havent seen diaz on the ropes like that in a while…prob is hes coming from dream competition… how many weight cutters do they really have over there? hes a short 5 9 which is bad for fighting either daiz brother.. but he looked like he had major power despite his disadvantage..
if he cuts to 55 im excited to see where he ends up… plus that puts his peers alot closer to his high kick could be interesting at least striker wise
yea, if he can cut to 155 without problems,
that would be scary.
by Anton Tabuena on Jan 31, 2010 12:28 AM EST up reply actions
I don’t know if I’m sold on him being a great fifty-fiver. He has power, but his boxing defense looked bad in this fight. Melendez would pick him apart. Nobody even mention Bj.
The man know simply as "Christmas Cheesesteak"
How dare you two.
The man know simply as "Christmas Cheesesteak"
by Neil Manich on Jan 31, 2010 12:53 PM EST up reply actions
How about “strike intelligently”? It’s not like there’s “Striking” and “Grappling” and that’s it. There’s this thing called gameplanning; he didn’t have one. Reach can be overcome – it’s only a disadvantage when you stand at a distance where you can be hit but can’t hit your oppponent. In the clinch, for example, having longer limbs can actually hurt (see Couture’s dirty boxing).
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
Body kicks
Those seemed like the perfect way to get Nick to drop his hands on a fake-to-headkick a la GSP/Hughes, but I think he’s still too green. With defensive work I think he’d have a shot in the future.
man the commentators on there sure do suck dont they? i wanted to mute the damn tv it felt like what would happen if the mike goldbergs of the world ran the commenting …thank god for joe rogan
it actually made me realize how much I prefer Goldberg
to a guy like Mauro… Ugh… He is horrible.. Hyperbole isn’t sufficient enough a description to describe how iriitating he has gotten for me…. Constant name dropping, and exaggeration all night… I can’t stand looking at Quadross, nor his in cage interviews, but his commentary isn’t too annoying.
I'm like PacMan fightin you silly kids... throw ya Hatton the ring, and get knocked outlike Ricky did.
lol.
There is something depressing about Diaz having a title belt around his waist.
I can imagine how justified he must feel right now in all the douche baggery he has committed over the last couple years.
Frankly, with all the crap he has put SF through, its rather shameful that Coker even let him have this title fight.
Oh well.
How’s he a douche? A little bit of a space cake, sure, but a douche?
by ununkvadrium on Jan 31, 2010 9:23 AM EST up reply actions
Well, that hype train has certainly de-railed.
Mark it 8 Dude.
by Earl Montclair on Jan 31, 2010 12:48 AM EST reply actions
I love Nick Diaz
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett
by Scott C. Broussard on Jan 31, 2010 12:48 AM EST reply actions 7 recs
Headed back to the west coast from the fights and I have to say thus fight was awesome live. Everybody was going nuts.
"I will do nothing lightly. When I walk, I will walk heavily. When I fight, I will fight with conviction. When I speak, I will speak strongly. When I love, I will love with everything"
by dedstrk316 on Jan 31, 2010 1:18 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Ariel Helwani's tweet:
Waiting outside Diaz’s locker room for over an hour. All I hear is loud hip hop music.
I was gonna clean my room until I got high
I gonna get up and find the broom but then I got high
my room is still messed up and I know why
- cause I got high
by snakecharmer1340 on Jan 31, 2010 1:50 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
Good to see another vastly overated fighter bite the dust, i’ll say this about Nick Diaz he continues to win even though he looks very beatable everytime out. In the end though it really doesn’t matter who won the SF WW title when in reality mostly all the top WW’s all fight for Zuffa but Diaz vs. Hieron should be a very good fight.
The title means one thing.
Nick Diaz gets five rounders, which is exactly what every fan of his wants. It will make him damn near unbeatable.
"Someone is WRONG on the internet. What do you want me to do? LEAVE? Then they'll keep being wrong!"
-Randall Munroe
Yeah, with Nick's cardio, 5 round fights are going to be tough for whoever he fights.
Favorite Fighters:
Nick Diaz
Nate Diaz
Brock Lesnar
Nate Marquardt
I remember the day when Nick Diaz was a favorite of Dana White. Dana really wanted to promote him and gave him every possible shot he could but Nick just couldn’t consistently win at the top level. Nick’s biggest problem has always been he’s too small for WW and can’t make weight at LW . . . ok biggest problem besides his insane love of the weed. He probably never would have escaped UFC and would have been viewed as a great fighter if MMA had a 160lb weight class.
he left the ufc because the gracies were gonna start another fight league but it fell through
by mr. gogoplata on Jan 31, 2010 2:02 AM EST up reply actions
Yea and the UFC would probably take him back too. It doesn’t seem like Zuffa has ever had any hard feeling towards Nick Diaz, heck they seem to take pretty good care of his brother.
Nick’s record in the UFC wasn’t the best but he has improved quite a bit since 2006 too.
I’m a huge fan of Nick’s, and I think he’s a better fighter than he was then. I’d like to see him fight Sanchez again. That being said I don’t really think he’d be a force in the UFC’s welterweight division. Every AKA guy not named Swick would be favored over him and I would be scared to bet on Nick over Alves. He’s good enough to fight in the UFC, I just don’t know if he’s good enough to fight for a title. Shields on the other hand…
The man know simply as "Christmas Cheesesteak"
Shields on the other hand…
…would get feckin’ tooled by the standup of almost every single WW in the division. Alves would wreck him. Fitch would probably wreck him (in a grind-it-out decision kind of way). Even a guy like Kampmann might mess him up. Shields’ takedowns are solid but nothing to write home about; his striking is… not great…; even his standup defence isn’t the best. I just don’t see it.
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
This.
The man know simply as "Christmas Cheesesteak"
by Neil Manich on Jan 31, 2010 12:54 PM EST up reply actions
Paul Daley is special in that he has so little ground skills. He’s like the reverse Jake Shields, but I have more faith in Daley’s ability to knock out random opponent X, than in Shields’ ability to take down and sub random opponent X, and even then it’s close. I don’t think Daley is anywhere near the “contender” he’s being hyped as either, but that’s just me.
"I'm AJB and I endorse this nut-puncher."
Condit/Diaz would actually be a great fight between two very effective strikers with great BJJ and poor wrestling. It would probably boil down to who could impose their style in the standup game. Could Condit turn it into a Muay Thai fight and beat up Diaz with kicks and knees, or would Nick’s volume punching boxing style win out?
I have no idea who would win, but I would love to find out.
Henderson vs Diaz cant come soon enough
by pandaboy99 on Jan 31, 2010 3:05 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
this is all i got to say about the diaz vs m. zaromskis fight
serious pimp fighting/ serious pimp sunglasses(a sponser i did not know he had or i knew even existed) also diaz said his brother won that last fight he had in the ufc. it was easy for me to hear it.
i'm all about covering the spread and moneylines. i was building a house, i don't deserve this, deserves have nothing to do with it. bang. "unforgiven"
by wolfmanshowlforever on Jan 31, 2010 3:25 AM EST reply actions
Nick Diaz is one hell of a self promoter. His ability to play the heel to hype the fight is great. I just don’t see how people can dislike him for being himself. Atleast he isn’t fake.
"I do no speak of the future. Your demise is already an inescapable fact of the past. " - Aizen
Exactly, you are not going to see him color his hair, paint his nails or get any tats anywhere......
He hates that crap.
Favorite Fighters:
Nick Diaz
Nate Diaz
Brock Lesnar
Nate Marquardt
Those knees that Diaz used against Zaromskis’ legs were very good, and his boxing is good as far as volume goes, but he does have defensive issues, but so does Zaromskis. It looks like it will be Diaz vs Hieron next, so I think we’ll see more wrestling and ground game used.
Yep
Those knees are what I think helped contribute to the early KO. Zaromskis couldn’t move around as well after that and it showed. He was very careless; swinging wildly with no head movement, and because of that, he was just getting laced the feet.
I definitely think those Diaz knees did the trick.
by timetosaygoodbye on Jan 31, 2010 10:49 AM EST up reply actions
He can beat AKA guys in a five rnd fight
by mr. gogoplata on Jan 31, 2010 9:59 PM EST up reply actions
Nor Cal in the house!!!!
Nick Diaz is the man… May not hav a legit opponent in Strikeforce. SacTown gots luv 4 Diaz!!
Wow - Diaz wins a sloppy fight against a the highly overrated Zaromskis.
I.
AM.
SHOCKED.
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