Melvin Guillard Guarantees Victory over Nate Diaz at UFN 19

Published on: 13th September, 2009

Melvin Guillard Guarantees Victory over Nate Diaz at UFN 19  | read this item

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This upcoming Wednesday night from the Cox Convention Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma will be the UFC Fight Night 19 card where the main event will feature a lightweight battle between Nate Diaz and Melvin Guillard and coming into the fight Diaz has been asking UFC brass to give him a fight with someone who can stand and trade with him and ‘The Young Assassin’ is that type of fighter, but Guillard is also feeling that Nate Diaz should be careful in what he wishes for as well.

In a recent interview with MMAWeekly.com Guillard breaks down the main event fight and feels that he can and will get the knockout.

“As far as Nate, there’s been rumors that he’s been begging Dana White and Joe Silva to get him somebody that he can stand up and bang with. I’m going to see if he’s a man of his word,” Guillard told MMAWeekly.com. “If he really wants to get in there, we can get us the Fight of the Night, or hopefully I get a Knockout of the Night if he really wants to get in there and stand up and bang.”

“I’ll stand up with anybody in the UFC. I honestly feel I am one of the best 155ers. I’m the strongest. Even looking back at a lot of the 55ers that fight, a lot of them land punches but they’re not knocking anybody out. If you look back at the majority of my fights, I knock out 90% of anybody I hit if it stays on the feet,” he added. “I’m not worried. I think more than anything he’s coming into this fight worried about my punching power.”

However; Guillard understands that Diaz is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu ace on the ground, but has also seen that Diaz has trouble with wrestlers like in his last two fights against Clay Guida and Joe Stevenson, so he plans to make it a hell of a lot of trouble for the Cesar Gracie trained fighter in the process.

“I studied the tape of him and Clay Guida and him and Joe (Stevenson). I studied those two matches a lot. I noticed he has a lot of trouble with wrestlers, so my game plan really is to go in there and bang with him, but anytime he tries to take it down, I’m just going to turn it into a wrestling match, and I’m just going to out-wrestle him the whole three rounds,” said the 26-year old fighter. “It can be the fight that he wants, or it can be the fight that he’s going to hate.”

“I’m such a good stand up fighter. I started out as a wrestler. That was my background.”

We will see if that is the gameplan for Diaz to stand and bang after being left very frustrated in his last two fights where he was neutralized from being able to do what he does best, but Guillard plans to take this fight and move on up further in the UFC lightweight division.

“I hate to predict fights, but I guarantee I’m walking out of there a winner. That’s how confident I am with my skills.”

Fan Question: Who will win in the UFC Fight Night 19 main event, Melvin Guillard or Nate Diaz?

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