Diaz vs. Noons 2

[singh_shady]

Diaz needs to fight Paul Daley next

[cowboyronnie]

The K-1 Final 16 is C-level striking at best. Those are weight lifters not kickboxers.

[Cammo101]

The K-1 Final 16 is C-level striking at best. Those are weight lifters not kickboxers.

This.

[Tony_Montana]

Can someone explain to me how Diaz won that fight? Noons was more accurate with his strikes and landed something like 150-200 more strikes.. You could see that BS call from a mile away though, with the crowd influence and what not.

I agree with you. I thought Noons should have won a close decision. Combinations or not, if you land 150-200 more strikes than your opponent in a 5 round stand up battle, I think you should win the fight.

But I also subscribe to the "gotta beat the champion" mambo jambo, and even if it's one of my least favourite fighters in all of mma, I can't say that Noons did that.

watch the fights. do you really think kj landed 150 more strikes? damn. compustrike accounted for their mistake anyways. diaz landed more and a better clip. noons was like 25% on strikes.

[Nemesis21]

Woodley keeps on winning . Nice armbar by Coenen . Glad to see Nick get revenge in 2nd fight with Noons. Hope to see a third one down the road .

[singh_shady]

The K-1 Final 16 is C-level striking at best. Those are weight lifters not kickboxers.

I'm definitely not saying that K-1 WGP striking is the best in the world, they're heavyweights and they won't be as technical as the K-1 Max middleweights or the pure MT strikers from Thailand who are held back by the K-1 rule set. But if you think guys like Daniel Ghita or Gokhan Saki display C-level striking then Diaz/Noons was F.

[SDM]

Can't stand the guy, but Diaz won that fight. I can't wait for the rubber match.

[cowboyronnie]

The CompuStrike was wrong, it turns out. They somehow doubled KJ's strike count.

Source: the internet

[El Hardee]

The CompuStrike was wrong, it turns out. They somehow doubled KJ's strike count.

Source: the internet

That sounds more like it, Noons was active but Diaz at least attempted a counter in every excahnge. To me they were tit for tat.