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MMA Pros react to UFC 279 drama & Nate vs. Tony booking

UFC 279 has a new main event now, Nate Diaz will now see Tony Ferguson inside the octagon.

Today morning, Nate Diaz made a perfect weight but his opponent Khamzat Chimaev missed the weight by eight pounds. due to this terrible miss weight, the fight was scrapped. It was later revealed that Nate will be fighting Tony Ferguson.

The co-main now features a bout between Khamzat Chimaev on Kevin Holland at 180 pounds catchweight. In addition, Li Jingliang will be facing Daniel Rodriguez on the main card, too.

This crazy turn-up of the events had every fan and fighter on their toe, check out the following reactions from the MMA pros around the world.

Let’s gooo we got a fight card!! Big respect to all the fighters willing to shuffle up the opponents…. fighters fight!!!
— Belal Muhammad (@bullyb170) September 9, 2022

Show Kevin Holland love!!!!!! Many wouldn’t do it
— Daniel Cormier (@dc_mma) September 9, 2022

Like anything, Mma can be so double standard. There can be a miss weight and not much will happen from it, maybe there is, but you also can miss weight being a big name and things can still workout 🥶. Hard to find the words for the tweet, hope it makes sense
— Kai Kamaka III (@kaiboikamaka) September 9, 2022

Diaz knocks out Ferg in 4th round! https://t.co/eYGpIf9Egs

— Funky (@Benaskren) September 9, 2022

Nate Diaz vs T Ferg & Chimaev vs. Holland . Both 5 rounders . This got weirdly good , real fast ! 🔥🔥🔥 #UFC279
— Derek Brunson (@DerekBrunson) September 9, 2022

Holland always gets a chance to be the hero . I swear this boy part ☘️. Imagine if he gets the job done 🤔! #UFC279
— Derek Brunson (@DerekBrunson) September 10, 2022

Aaand that’s why heavyweights are the best, never have to worry about missing weight. Oh shit nevermind…#UFC279

— Chris Daukaus (@ChrisDaukausMMA) September 9, 2022

I don’t want to reward all the shit that went down…but these fights just got way better!! #UFC279
— Alex Volkanovski (@alexvolkanovski) September 9, 2022

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