Topic: Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz rattled Fox broadcast
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12.09.2012 | 6:57 PM ET
During his middle finger episode fox cameramen were told to show the crowd to avoid fines from the Federal Communications Commission
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/nate-diaz-middle-finger-gesture-during-fight-rattled-161511051--mma.html
During Benson Henderson's win over Nate Diaz at UFC on Fox 5, the Fox broadcast repeatedly cut away to a shot of the empty octagon. Was it a technical difficulty? Did someone on Fox's broadcast truck hit the wrong button?
No. Diaz threw up the middle finger at his opponent, and the network cut away instead of risking a fine from the Federal Communications Commission.
This isn't the first time Diaz has caused a stir on network television. After a Strikeforce fight in 2010 on CBS, Diaz, his brother Nick and their teammates got into a postfight melee when Jason "Mayhem" Miller jumped into the cage after a Jake Shields win.
Diaz is known for using trash talk and throwing up the middle finger during fights. He famously locked in a triangle choke with his legs on Kurt Pellegrino and put up both fingers as he finished the submission. Henderson knew this and prepared for Diaz's game.
"It's something I actually had a little bit of a hard time with, but once my training partners got together, they all started talking crap to me in the middle of sparring and I'd get angry," Henderson said on Fuel TV's postfight show. "They helped control it and I did a pretty good job of being very focused and not letting that affect my emotional state in the middle of the fight."
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Fighter Details
- Given Name: Nathan Donald Diaz
- Pro MMA Record: 21-13-0 (Win-Loss-Draw)
- Nickname: N/A
- Current Streak: 1 Win
- Age: 1985-04-16 | Date of Birth: 1985.04.16
- Last Fight: September 10, 2022 in UFC
- Weight Class: Welterweight | Last Weigh-In: 171.0 lbs
- Affiliation: Cesar Gracie Jiu Jitsu
- Height: 6'0" (183cm) | Reach: 76.0" (193cm)
- Career Disclosed Earnings: $4,081,000 USD
- Born: Stockton, California, United States
- Fighting out of: Stockton, California
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12.09.2012 | 7:01 PM ET
Makes me feel a little better staying up all night till 6 am...
" I feel like Davy Crockett on the walls of the Alamo, swinging Old Betsy as the enemy swarmed in with bayonets. Sheesh. Listen you young punks....." - Bill Burgess
12.09.2012 | 7:06 PM ET
"......." says Diaz in a coma.
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" - Isaac Newton
12.09.2012 | 7:16 PM ET
How stupid is this. OH MY GOD IT'S A MIDDLE FINGER! PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN! What kind of country do we (at least us Americans) live in where a middle finger needs to be censored. Sigh.
"I live, I die, I live again."
12.09.2012 | 7:19 PM ET
"Are we gonna jump, or we just gonna jerk each other off?"
12.09.2012 | 7:21 PM ET
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" - Isaac Newton
12.09.2012 | 7:22 PM ET
Here in Germany people can curse, have sex or flip middlefingers as much as they want to on TV. But we have some stupid regulations in reverse.
For example the freaking UFC is to brutal for free TV...
" I feel like Davy Crockett on the walls of the Alamo, swinging Old Betsy as the enemy swarmed in with bayonets. Sheesh. Listen you young punks....." - Bill Burgess
12.09.2012 | 7:25 PM ET
" I feel like Davy Crockett on the walls of the Alamo, swinging Old Betsy as the enemy swarmed in with bayonets. Sheesh. Listen you young punks....." - Bill Burgess
12.09.2012 | 7:25 PM ET
I mean, for god's sake, it's a ******* MMA card, if you're going to let your kids watch an MMA card I think the least of your problems is a couple of "birdies" :)
"Hay lohh you Mike, ay lov you Mike. Hyou say somesing like di fo me, and naw I say you ... I LOV YOU! See you som. Boy." -- Yoel Romero, UFC 205
12.09.2012 | 7:27 PM ET
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" - Isaac Newton
12.09.2012 | 7:28 PM ET
@yoss, My problem with that is that alot of people consider mma to be a sport. Just because it is a combat sport does not mean those other "birdies" should be allowed, at least not on national tv.
* Edited at 12.09.2012, 7:29 PM ET *
"Are we gonna jump, or we just gonna jerk each other off?"
12.09.2012 | 7:33 PM ET
"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved" – Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
12.09.2012 | 7:49 PM ET
And a middlefinger or the words **** you are bad ?
My conclusion, if I ever have kids, don't let them watch TV at all, or at least just reduce that time to a minimum.
" I feel like Davy Crockett on the walls of the Alamo, swinging Old Betsy as the enemy swarmed in with bayonets. Sheesh. Listen you young punks....." - Bill Burgess
12.09.2012 | 7:49 PM ET
"I'm too old to be run by the fears of dumb people "
12.09.2012 | 7:52 PM ET
"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved" – Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
12.09.2012 | 7:57 PM ET
Die, is correct American TV is stupid. I can turn on a majority of FOX channels and hear foul language, see ****s, murders and other deplorable behavior, but this is a big deal. YA OK, Get the **** outta here with that ****.
"One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted. If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it." Jose Ortega y Gasset
12.09.2012 | 8:00 PM ET
"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved" – Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
12.09.2012 | 8:00 PM ET
"I'm too old to be run by the fears of dumb people "
12.09.2012 | 8:05 PM ET
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12.09.2012 | 8:10 PM ET
And i could understand why fox cut away. They wanna make the sport seem like the fighters are professional athletes and not some street trash thrown into a cage. In any other sport im sure the player would be fined for doing **** like that. It just isnt what a professional does.