Roberto Duran – Jorge Masvidal
Jorge Masvidal’s boxing idol is the legendary Roberto Duran, someone who even to this day he still watches highlight videos of and tries to imitate.
As such, for by far the biggest fight of his career against Nate Diaz in NYC in November, ‘Gamebred’ paid tribute to Duran by inviting the hall-of-famer to walk him out to the Octagon at Madison Square Garden.
However, the 68-year-old Duran wasn’t just coming along for the ride. Unbeknown to Masvidal, he actually spent time studying Nate Diaz as an opponent and then gave the UFC star advice on how to beat him.
Masdvidal vowed that there was no way he would lose to Diaz while Duran was watching from Octagon-side, and sure enough he would go on to win by TKO at the end of the third round.
