Nate Diaz is struggling to understand the debate over whether Conor McGregor should have tapped out or gone to sleep from a fight-ending submission in UFC 196’s main event earlier this month. After former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm lost her title by going unconscious to a rear-naked choke applied by Miesha Tate in UFC 196’s co-headliner, McGregor (19-3 MMA, 7-1 UFC) lost to Diaz (19-10 MMA, 14-8 UFC) by the same maneuver shortly after . UFC President Dana White called Holm a “gangster” for going out on her shield and not tapping to the choke. Others have criticized McGregor, the UFC featherweight champ who moved to welterweight to face Diaz, for tapping too quickly, or even tapping at all. Diaz said he doesn’t see it that way, though. The situations Holm and McGregor found themselves in were vastly, he says, and is adament there shouldn’t be a lack of pride in a fighter giving in when they’ve been bested inside the octagon
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