August 3, 2023 3:00 pm ET
Legendary boxing coach Teddy Atlas thinks Jake Paul beats Nate Diaz.
Diaz makes his professional boxing debut Saturday in Dallas, the place he takes on YouTuber-turned-professional boxer Paul in a 10-round, 185-pound matchup that headlines a pay-per-view co-promoted by DAZN and Diaz’s Actual Battle Inc.
Atlas credit Diaz for his resolve, although, and thinks his coronary heart and sturdiness will all the time preserve him in a struggle.
“You may’t rely Nate Diaz out due to that psychological resolve, that realm that’s his realm that he is aware of how one can discover a manner,” Atlas stated on “DC & RC.” “To not be deterred, to not give in in any manner, to not be compromised. Persons are compromised once they get into that setting, and he doesn’t get compromised Diaz. He has that going for him.”
However Atlas isn’t certain that shall be sufficient for Diaz. Paul will look to rebound from his first-career loss to Tommy Fury, and since Diaz isn’t an expert boxer, Atlas thinks “The Drawback Little one” has sturdy sufficient fundamentals to beat the Stockton, Calif.-born celebrity. “I’m choosing Paul to win the struggle and the explanation I’m choosing him to win the struggle is he has developed himself sufficient,” Atlas stated. “I’ll make it actual easy: He throws straighter punches than Diaz. He’s obtained the straight jab. I believe that would management Diaz on the skin and he’s obtained the straight proper hand. Typically, Diaz breaks the foundations. He breaks the legal guidelines within the ring the place he throws vast punches proper in entrance of you.
“And should you throw vast punches, you don’t want me to inform you, you realized that in geometry, didn’t you, the place straight beats spherical? Even I realized that. Straight beats spherical, so one factor Paul has gotten down with is he’ll throw these punches good and straight. He’s completed a very good job with that – that, and the skilled he’s gained the place once more, he doesn’t disintegrate in that area.”
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