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22nd August 2016
09:11pm BST

But one moment that really stood out came as Diaz made one of his trademark attempt at goading his opponent.
Winding McGregor up in the first fight at UFC 196 worked a treat. It caused McGregor to lose his head, swing for Diaz and make some rash moves which ultimately ended badly for the Dubliner.
But not this time. McGregor was cold, calculated and stuck to the game plan of staying just out of range, working the leg kicks and using the slip and strike to devastating effect.
Diaz, who said he'd been trash talking McGregor all through the fight, tried to push his buttons in the same vein as UFC 196 - grinning at him across the Octagon.
But he came a cropper for it almost immediately as McGregor wiped the smirk right off his face with a beautiful left hand. It was emblematic of McGregor's single-mindedness and equanimity throughout the fight.
Mere mortals surely wouldn't have been able to withstand the barrage of shots that the Irishman threw - certainly no-one in the featherweight division.
But Diaz is absolutely bomb proof. Bloody face aside (he's got a lot of scar tissue from his 30 pro fights) Diaz was just not going to be stopped - even by a big-punching McGregor - and he just kept coming at McGregor for five brutal rounds.
Fans on Reddit MMA were still in awe of the fight and with such interest in the pair, Diaz McGregor 3 can't be too long off...
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