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John McCarthy tends to make outlandish statements on his podcast but his latest one may take the cake. He recently spoke out about a fight between UFC welterweight champion Kamaru Usman and Nick Diaz.
Nick Diaz has been very vocal about wanting to face Kamaru Usman for the UFC welterweight title once he returns to the cage. John McCarthy gave his analysis on the bout should it actually come to fruition.
“If there’s one thing that you know about Nick, he’s gonna come and give you everything that he’s got,” McCarthy said on his “Weighing In” podcast (h/t MMAJunkie). “Would I mind seeing him against Kamaru? No, I wouldn’t, other than this: Kamaru would stand with him until he started getting lit up and then he’s gonna go and use his wrestling – which he should. I’m not saying he shouldn’t, but what is Nick always complaining about? People wrestling.
And then it’s on the ground, and it’s gonna end up being yeah, he can try and use his submission game and stuff, but I don’t think that Kamaru would end up standing up with Nick that long, that much out of the first round. Things would start to become difficult.”
John McCarthy did not stop there though, he firmly believes Nick Diaz would give Kamaru Usman serious problems on the feet. The same UFC champion that holds a knockout over a striker like Jorge Masvidal.
“He’s a handful as far as the way he creates situations that he just touch, touch, touch, and he’ll throw power in there, and he’ll take shots to give shots, and he just keeps this buzzsaw action going that makes you start to become more defensive than offensive,” McCarthy said. “And you end up saying screw this and when you’ve got that wrestling background, you’re Kamaru Usman, you go, ‘I’m taking him down,’ and that’s what I see here.”
