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“In the case of a lot of other dudes, they just gotta talk it because they can’t bring it in a fight.”
Jorge Masvidal and Nate Diaz are expected to arrive in New York tomorrow to promote their highly anticipated headlining title bout at UFC 244, but don’t expect things to get too heated between the two fan favorites.
Masvidal vs. Diaz may be one of the most anticipated match-ups of the year but, speaking to ESPN’s Ariel Helwani in a recent interview, ‘Gamebred’ told fans not to get their hopes up for Thursday’s UFC 244 pre-fight press conference in New York.
Masvidal has no intention of ‘talking sh-t’ to Diaz in the lead-up to UFC 244 because he plans to do his talking in the cage. Diaz, he says, will do the same.
“Man he knows everything that there is to know about me,” Masvidal said, per Fernando Quiles Jr. of MMA News. “Between men, between real men it just takes a glance. You just exchange that look and know, ‘bro it’s gonna be go time player. F*ck we’re going man.’ The engines are running, we’re going. And that’s the thing. I don’t have to go back-and-forth with that dude. [When I stand across from him] I go ‘man that dude is coming to turn my f*cking lights out.’ We don’t need to be f*cking talking sh*t.”
Masvidal, an ex-bare knuckle fighter from the streets of Miami, Florida, went on the state that most fighters who talk outside of the cage have little to show for when the Octagon door closes on fight night.
“In the case of a lot of other dudes, they just gotta talk it because they can’t bring it in a fight.”
Masvidal is currently riding a wave of momentum after notching back-to-back knockout victories over Darren Till and Ben Askren, KO’ing the latter in just five seconds of the opening round with a sensational flying knee.
Diaz, 34, returned to the Octagon after a three-year hiatus to face former WEC and UFC lightweight champ Anthony Pettis in the UFC 241 co-main event. The Stockton local dominated Pettis enroute to a unanimous decision victory and called out Masvidal in his post-fight interview. Just a couple of weeks later, the fight was booked, as the UFC announced that both men would square off for the ‘BMF’ world title in the UFC 244 main event.
The pay-per-view extravaganza is set to take place later this year, November 2 at Madison Square Garden, New York.