Nate Diaz is starting to sound like Ronda Rousey when it comes to the history of combat sports.
The former UFC welterweight claims he outstruck and defeated Jake Paul in their summer 2023 boxing match but only lost because it was Paul’s show (promoted under the MVP banner). The equally-delusional Theo Von agreed and suggested “a lot of people felt that way.”
Not only was Diaz dropped during the fight, which was not close, he was outstruck across the board.
Diaz (21-13) also claims UFC
offered him a comeback fight against Conor McGregor but turned it down because he didn’t want to be the one to “finish off” the one-legged McGregor. As Diaz explained, the 37 year-old “Notorious” is hobbling around on his “dying leg” after he “just lost” to longtime rival Dustin Poirier.
That was almost five years ago, homie.
“For instance, I think that if I went back to UFC, they want me to fight Conor McGregor right now,” Diaz told This Past Weekend (transcribed by MMA Fighting). “For me, Conor McGregor just … pull up his record, do we got his record? I know this, but I’m thinking about it, I’m like, Conor McGregor just f*cking lost to Poirier. He got knocked out on his ass. So Poirier knocks his ass out and then he breaks his leg, which is horrible because Poirier’s a sorry little bitch. I’m like, he knocks him out and then he gets his leg broken and it’s like, ‘F*ck, that’s f*cking horrible.’ We’re adversaries, but I’m like, ‘Bro, you broke your whole shit.’ I don’t wish that on nobody. Then I’m like, I hope he comes back and does good. Then everybody’s counting him out, I’m like, alright, cool. I know he’s having a hard time with the UFC because I’ve been having a hard time with the UFC. I’m like, yo, good vibes, damn, handling your shit.”
Diaz has been known to be “hard to deal with” during “crazy” negotiations.
“Charles Oliveira just won the [BMF] fight,” Diaz continued. “You’re rocking my belt now and you’re running around like you’re the baddest motherf*cker, so that’s where I’m like, what’s popping with the UFC, let’s link up and get this fight popping. I go back to talk to them about it and they’re all ready for me to come back and fight Conor. I’m like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, listen to what I’m talking about.’ I want to fight the best of the best when they are the best of the best. Conor’s great, but I’m not trying to go kill off Conor when he’s on his last dying f*cking leg, literally. That’s f*cked up. I’m not trying to be the ending to some f*cker’s story like that. We ain’t friends, we ain’t none of that, but I ain’t trying to finish this dude off. That’s what I plan on doing if we’re fighting. At the same time, I ain’t trying to get f*cked up by nobody who just got knocked out on his ass and broke his leg, this guy’s down and out, now he’s nothing but motivated to fight me because who else are you going to fight in there? They’re probably going to give him a f*cking BMF belt, f*cking bitch-ass Oliveira, who I believe I’ll beat the f*cking shit out of.”
Diaz, who turns 41 in just a few weeks, parted ways with UFC after tapping Tony Ferguson at UFC 276.
The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 5 champion had no trouble finding work after UFC but he lost to Paul and then went on to bankrupt Fanmio with one of the lowest-selling pay-per-view (PPV) cards in the history of combat sports. Next on the docket is an MMA fight against fellow UFC veteran and BKFC bruiser Mike Perry.
Diaz is currently the betting underdog.
“In the meantime, I’m not fighting for MVP, I’m fighting for Netflix and I’m fighting from Real Fight Inc., which I’ll probably be doing with Netflix anyway, Real Fight entertainment on a thing, show you how to throw a real MMA fight show,” Diaz said. “I’ve been in the UFC for 20 years now so I’m like, yo, I’m going to do that from Real Fighting. I’m not working for f*cking MVP like all these other motherf*ckers are. I’m a UFC fighter, I’m working for me, for Real Fighting, and I’m hunting Jake Paul’s motherf*cking ass, not taking a fight with a guy who’s on the comeback. Me and Conor will fight again when the time is right, and it’s to fight, but it’s going to be when we both on the uprising. Not when someone’s dying out. I’m nobody’s comeback story either, so I’m fighting the most dangerous, most violent motherf*ckers there is on Netflix and then I’m hunting his boy that he works with at MVP. So that’s what I’m doing right now. That’s my objective and that’s what I’m doing. I didn’t want to talk about it, but that’s what’s happening.”
All thanks to his superior brain power, which continues to grow stronger with every fight.
Nate Diaz joined the fight promotion game with Real Fight, Inc. but hasn’t done much with it over the last few years. Whether or not the Stockton slugger can find his way back to the UFC roster may depend on whether or not he’s able to skate past Perry on May 16 in Los Angeles.
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