Undefeated pro boxer, Esquiva Falcao, wasn’t exactly impressed by Nate Diaz’s boxing skills after sparring with him for 12 rounds.
Recently, Falcao, gave a pretty damning assessment of the UFC legend’s boxing skills. In a video on social media he said:
“At first I thought he was tired, and in the end it looked like he was dying.”
“His fighting style is crazy. You look at him and say, ‘Oh, he’s tired,’ and then we started sparring. [Coach] Robert [Garcia] told me in the second round, ‘He’s tired already, hold back a little bit and keep the rhythm so he does at least 10 rounds.”
“I held back and kept boxing, and we did 12 rounds. He was tired, but taking punches and throwing, too. [He] is bad, [he] is bad, but since he’s too heavy — he’s overweight, probably around 220 pounds or more — and I’m the only big guy in the gym, I had to do it. But I liked doing it.”
But in a recent interview on The MMA Hour, Chris Avila diaputed the story, saying:
“Bro, that guy got f****d up.”
“Yeah, we just got back — we were out in L.A. and we went to a boxing gym, this guy’s like a silver medalist out of Brazil and whatever. He’s 30-0, he’s fighting for a world title next week … So Nate sparred this guy, did 12 rounds. Bro, he got f****d up. He lost every round.
Then afterward he immediately goes to the coach, ‘Oh, I’m cutting weight, that’s why I didn’t look too good.’ And then you see on his [Instagram] story, it’s in Portuguese so we had somebody translate — and he was talking s***! The next day we went back and the coach was like, ‘Yo, he wants to spar you. So I sparred him, and then he lost every round again — and he still said goes and talks some more shit in Portuguese. But we didn’t know until after all the sparring.”
Diaz is due to make his professional boxing debut when he takes on Jake Paul on August 5th.