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TJ Dillashaw, left, the current UFC interim bantamweight champion, and Nate Diaz, right, have knocked off top contenders in several fights in recent years.
TJ Dillashaw knocked out Nate Diaz Saturday in the UFC 200 main event.
The first half of this year may have been quite the wild ride for some fighters in the sport of mixed martial arts.
There was Urijah Faber who almost took the lightweight title from interim champion Anthony Pettis before a broken thumb ended a dream run for Faber and he lost to Pettis in the rematch. There were top contenders in lightweight, featherweight and bantamweight who were all knocked out before they even took the fight. There were top contenders who were knocked out in the first round.
In one week, one fighter changed the landscape of the sport with a knockout, and then another changed the landscape with a submission.
Two weeks ago, Nate Diaz took down Conor McGregor and then turned his attention to his next opponent before it was announced Conor would face Nate Diaz for the featherweight title Saturday night. Diaz knocked out Conor in the first round and the second bout proved to be the much awaited main event of the night for a stacked UFC 200 card headlined by Ronda Rousey defending her UFC women’s bantamweight title and a middleweight title fight between middleweight champion Michael Bisping and Georges St-Pierre.
However, the most unexpected bout of the night might have been the one between two top contenders at bantamweight.
TJ Dillashaw vs. Nate Diaz is a classic fight with a story, a villain and a winner.
Dillashaw and Nate Diaz put on a classic display at UFC 200 that had all the drama as you could possibly want.
Dillashaw had the best performance of his career and he was the first man in UFC to knock out all three top contenders between
