#5 UFC 196: McGregor vs. Diaz
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Interestingly, it was after this fight that the Irishman’s mystic powers began to fade. Perhaps it’s a coincidence, perhaps not. But this fight was his most off the mark prediction in his UFC career, especially because it didn’t go his way.
At UFC 196, McGregor was slotted to face Rafael Dos Anjos for the UFC lightweight title but only two weeks before the fight, the Brazilian pulled out with a dire foot injury. In his place, Nate Diaz stepped up without much of a training camp and really no hard conditioning to aid in his ability to succeed in this fight.
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McGregor had predicted that he would knock Diaz out within the first round for this fight, but he was wrong in not only the result but also the method.
What happened, instead, was a result that created one of the most exciting and entertaining rivalries in modern MMA. Diaz, on 10 days notice, submitted McGregor in the second round via rear-naked choke, snapping the Irishman’s perfect UFC record and 15-fight win streak.
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