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Nate Diaz’s middle finger gesture during fight rattled Fox broadcast, but not Benson Henderson
By Maggie Hendricks | Cagewriter – 15 hours ago

During Benson Henderson's win over Nate Diaz at UFC on Fox 5, the Fox broadcast repeatedly cut away to a shot of the empty octagon. Was it a technical difficulty? Did someone on Fox's broadcast truck hit the wrong button?

No. Diaz threw up the middle finger at his opponent, and the network cut away instead of risking a fine from the Federal Communications Commission.

We've hidden Diaz's objectionable gesture, but you get the point.
This isn't the first time Diaz has caused a stir on network television. After a Strikeforce fight in 2010 on CBS, Diaz, his brother Nick and their teammates got into a postfight melee when Jason "Mayhem" Miller jumped into the cage after a Jake Shields win.

Diaz is known for using trash talk and throwing up the middle finger during fights. He famously locked in a triangle choke with his legs on Kurt Pellegrino and put up both fingers as he finished the submission. Henderson knew this and prepared for Diaz's game.

"It's something I actually had a little bit of a hard time with, but once my training partners got together, they all started talking crap to me in the middle of sparring and I'd get angry," Henderson said on Fuel TV's postfight show. "They helped control it and I did a pretty good job of being very focused and not letting that affect my emotional state in the middle of the fight."

Best journalist ever.

[Flou]

Silly Americans/FCC with their fear of the middle finger...

[W.Silva>C.Norris]

silly diaz flipping off an opponent rather then defending a takedown or leg kick.

[dbader08]

Originally Posted by W.Silva>C.Norris

silly diaz flipping off an opponent rather then defending a takedown or leg kick.

almost as silly as wandy's gameplan vs leben lol

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Uh oh. Don't make any disparaging comments against Nate Diaz or dbader will swoop in and personally attack you.

[KevoOnTheRadio]

The UFC had to know that was going to happen. The Diaz's throw up middle fingers like my ex girlfriend throws down cheeseburgers.

[sonofsteven]

Originally Posted by dbader08

almost as silly as wandy's gameplan vs leben lol

I hope you get kicked in your shins today. Both of them . Hard. ^^^

I was wondering what happened I thought the feed was fucking up and was getting pissed off. Even though I had been expecting Diaz to do that and shoiuld have put 2 and 2 together.

[Fe1]

Under the unified rules of mixed martial arts, a point can be deducted for use of abusive language during a fight. I'm not sure if it says anything about the finger but Diaz has definitely been known to let out the occasional "come on, bitch." It's unsportsmanlike and I'd like to see it enforced.

It is however, a little bit funny when he does all that trash talk in a fight just to get his ass handed to him

[MMAtt]

I love watching the Diaz brothers get their asses kicked, but he must be a badass if he can flip off Bendo while getting his ass beat, at least he's not as much of a bitch as his brother, he didn't cry and claim retirement

[Lesnar_FTW]

I just thought it was funny how FOX wanted to sensor out the middle finger yet has no problem showing people smashing each others' faces in.