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Nate Diaz Says He’ll Whoop Conor McGregor & Floyd Mayweather In The Same Night

Nate Diaz didn’t pull any punches in his recent interview on The MMA Hour with MMAFighting‘s Ariel Helwani, as he boldly claimed he could defeat both Conor McGregor and Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather in the same night. The Stockton native stated that he and UFC President Dana White had a falling out in terms of negotiation

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Nate Diaz didn’t pull any punches in his recent interview on The MMA Hour with MMAFighting‘s Ariel Helwani, as he boldly claimed he could defeat both Conor McGregor and Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather in the same night.

The Stockton native stated that he and UFC President Dana White had a falling out in terms of negotiation when it came to the financials of a McGregor rematch:

“They weren’t happiest about that, but they’re not talking to me about that. But I think were gonna get things figured out.”

Diaz also spoke on rumors that White had reportedly stormed out of their meeting angrily after his request for more money:

“No that was exaggerated, we finished talking and then we all walked out. It wasn’t the worst meeting, it wasn’t the best meeting, but it wasn’t the worst either.”

“They were cool, I was cool, it was just business talk. We didn’t end on the happiest note but I think we’re moving forward.”

diaz2Helwani asked Diaz if he believed the UFC was using the Mayweather rumors as a ploy to pressure Diaz into taking the McGregor rematch before it’s too late:

“I do think that, we’re on the same page here.”, Diaz joked. “Thats exactly what I think. Every time I hear about it I get a call.

Fight that mutherf*****, I’ll be right here. I’m the only one that can say I can whoop both their asses in one night.”

Diaz then commented on how he believed he would fare inside the ring against Mayweather:

“Mayweather is the best boxer that there is on winning fights. I’ve never been in high-level boxing matches like that. But I bet I’ll do better that McGregor would.”

Nate DiazWhile it is very well known that McGregor is obsessed with a rematch against the man who handed him his first loss under the promotion’s banner, Diaz claims he won’t lose any sleep if the bout never comes to fruition:

“I don’t even give a fu**. If I got my ass wooped I’d be begging for the fight. If you don’t want to rematch somebody who beat you, then I don’t know what the f*** your in this for. So I’m not begging for this fight.”

While a rematch between McGregor and Diaz is the obvious angle the UFC is hoping for, it appears we will have to wait until negotiations between Diaz and the UFC improve before seeing the two men throw down inside the Octagon again.

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Nate Diaz: Conor McGregor Didn’t Really Want To Fight At UFC 200

Nate Diaz has gotten a lot more notoriety in the media lately since defeating Conor McGregor at UFC 196 back in March, and he knows his newfound worth. In an exclusive interview today with MMAFighting‘s Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour, Diaz dished on a variety of topics including his sit-down meeting with UFC President

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Nate Diaz has gotten a lot more notoriety in the media lately since defeating Conor McGregor at UFC 196 back in March, and he knows his newfound worth.

In an exclusive interview today with MMAFighting‘s Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour, Diaz dished on a variety of topics including his sit-down meeting with UFC President Dana White and CEO Lorenzo Fertitta in his hometown of Stockton:

“Yeah, for sure it was the first time, they’ve never been out here so it was cool”, Diaz said. “They hit me up about UFC 202. I didn’t even answer, I said ‘I wonder what’s gonna happen with that’”.

NateDiazMedicalSuspension2The Stockton native then commented on the rumors of a potential boxing match between McGregor and boxing legend Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather:

“I hear all this Mayweather McGregor shit, I feel like that’s a big old publicity stunt to hide that he got his ass whooped”.

Diaz then spoke on McGregor’s meeting with White and Fertitta, and how both men looked happy following the meeting.

“They called my management that next day and said are you in or not?,” he said. Diaz jokingly continued, “Where’s my dinner? wheres my special meeting?”

According to Diaz, White and Fertitta flew out the next afternoon to talk a potential rematch with the Irishman:

“We went to lunch and we had a talk, everything went how it did and they went home. I just basically told them what was up. I said look, that was the biggest fight they had. I know, if whether they want to say it or not, that I put bigger numbers in than anyone else too, but they just put me on a Fox card.

“I just beat your biggest draw, so if you don’t mind I’d like to be compensated better than I was last time.”

Conor McGregor vs. Nate DiazDiaz then went on to say he has accepted a fight with McGregor multiple times, and how he believes the UFC 200 fiasco was a ploy to buy the Irishman more time:

“I’ve said yes to this Conor McGregor fight six times, and I fought him one time and I won,” he said. “I don’t think the fight was ever on, I think they were buying him more time.”

“I think the Mayweather thing is a publicity stunt.”

Though rumors surrounding the possible McGregor vs Mayweather boxing match have been running rampant these past few weeks, Diaz is not convinced it’s happening and that the UFC is just buying the Irishman more time to prepare. Do you agree?

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Floyd Mayweather Jr. Set To Have Business Meeting With Jon Jones

Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather Jr. continues to snatch at UFC superstars this month, but this time he’s not sharing a headline with Conor McGregor. According to Mayweather, the retired boxing legend and promotor is set to go to Albuquerque to talk business with interim UFC light-heavyweight champion Jone Jones: “I’m about to go to Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather Jr. continues to snatch at UFC superstars this month, but this time he’s not sharing a headline with Conor McGregor.

According to Mayweather, the retired boxing legend and promotor is set to go to Albuquerque to talk business with interim UFC light-heavyweight champion Jone Jones:

“I’m about to go to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet with Jon Bones Jones, the best MMA fighter in the world. I’m working on the daily. Trying to help fighters grow, not just in the ring, but outside.”

‘Money’ has also expressed interest in the past of possibly managing the former UFC light-heavyweight king:

“Jon Jones is with the MMA but we still gotta communicate and put some things together, me and him,” he said. “We’d love Jon Jones to be a part of TMT.

We steady growing. And it’s not just about us making money it’s about the talent winning. That’s what we believe and that’s why so many promoters hate us and dislike us, because we believe in the talent winning when it’s all said and done.”

Mayweather and Jones shared a FaceTime conversation together that Jones tweeted a snapshot of last week, showing the two have been keeping in touch as of late:

“(We were) talking business,” Floyd said. “Me and Jon talked about the future of his career.”

Jones has expressed interest in the past of joining ‘The Money Team’ (TMT), as well as allowing Mayweather to manage his fighting career. No word yet on how the meeting went, but stick with LowKick for the latest on Jones’ potential partnership with TMT.

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Will Cris Cyborg Box On McGregor vs. Mayweather Undercard?

Without a high-profile card this weekend, much of the news in the MMA world has centered around the heavily hyped potential boxing match between UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor and retired boxing great Floyd Mayweather Jr. It seemed to be taken to an all-new level this week when “Money” reportedly offered McGregor $50 million of

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Without a high-profile card this weekend, much of the news in the MMA world has centered around the heavily hyped potential boxing match between UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor and retired boxing great Floyd Mayweather Jr.

It seemed to be taken to an all-new level this week when “Money” reportedly offered McGregor $50 million of just that to face him inside the squared circle, and “The Notorious” must have taken that as a sign, as he wildly proclaimed that Mayweather “needs him” instead of the opposite scenario.

The proposed super fight seems like a far-off scenario with McGregor under contract with the UFC, and indeed his next fight in the Octagon seems close to being booked after he met with the UFC brass this week, even if a similar meeting with his prospective opponent Nate Diaz, who infamously submitted McGregor at March’s UFC 196, didn’t go as well.

If it does somehow happen, however, there’s another high-profile MMA fighter that wants to try her hand at the sweet science on the card. That woman is Invicta FC featherweight titleholder Cristiane ‘Cyborg’ Justino, who recently made her UFC debut by decimating Leslie Smith at May 14’s UFC 198 from Curitiba, Brazil.

She was recently liked to a potential fight with rising women’s bantamweight contender Germaine de Randamie at July’s UFC 201 this week, but Cyborg is apparently playing hardball, stating she would rather defend her Invicta title at 145 pounds for some odd reason. And there could be another reason for that, because now, she’s apparently got some other plans in mind.

Justino spoke up on Twitter this weekend to volunteer her services for a spot on the potentially massive McGregor vs. Mayweather event:

The brutalizing knockout artist has previously competed in Muay Thai, and although she did lose to champion Jorina Baars, she’s definitely one of the biggest names in all of female combat sports. With that said, she hasn’t exactly been tested in the cage or ring outside of the Baars fight, so it’s a quandary as to exactly whom she’d potentially face in a boxing match as part of the undercard for McGregor vs. Mayweather.

She’s got the potential to be a huge star in the UFC, but Cyborg appears focused on boxing, telling TMZ that she already has a coach that will “have me ready.”

Do you want to see her box on the potentially massive event, or do you believe the fight is so unlikely that speculating on the undercard is pointless?

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Boxing Legend Has Some Advice For Conor McGregor

Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr. recently commented on UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor’s loss to Nate Diaz, and his possible rematch with the man who handed him his first loss under the promotion’s banner. “It’s a great rematch and I can’t wait to see it. You can’t move up in weight and underestimate this guy and

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Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr. recently commented on UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor’s loss to Nate Diaz, and his possible rematch with the man who handed him his first loss under the promotion’s banner.

“It’s a great rematch and I can’t wait to see it. You can’t move up in weight and underestimate this guy and think it’s easy. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

Jones also said that McGregor may have taken the Stockton native a little too lightly:

Going up in weight because you think you’re better than him doesn’t mean that you are. Sometimes you go up in weight and find out, ‘Whoa … no wonder this guy’s different!’

‘Superman’ also said that if McGregor can find a good boxing coach, now knowing what he’s up against in Diaz, the end result in a rematch could be different:

So now that he’s been in there he understands a little bit more about what he’s up against, so his chances are much better in phase two than they were in phase one. Be smart, find a good guy in his boxing coach, teach you how to deal with a boxer.”

UFC officials are likely targeting a rematch between the two trash-talking MMA stars, as UFC President Dana White and CEO Lorenzo Fertitta have had sit down meetings with both men in order to negotiate a deal.

No official bout has been made yet, however one is expected to be made sooner rather than later.

 

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Canelo Alvarez Vacates Title, Plans To Continue Negotiations With GGG

Saul “Canelo” Alavarez picked up the biggest victory of his career last November when he scored a decision win over veteran Miguel Cotto to become the WBC middleweight champion. With Alvarez’s victory, fans had hoped that we would be treated to the biggest fight boxing has to offer: a showdown between Alvarez and then interim

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Saul “Canelo” Alavarez picked up the biggest victory of his career last November when he scored a decision win over veteran Miguel Cotto to become the WBC middleweight champion.

With Alvarez’s victory, fans had hoped that we would be treated to the biggest fight boxing has to offer: a showdown between Alvarez and then interim WBC, WBA, IBO, and IBF middleweight title holder Gennady “GGG” Golovkin.

Golovkin, a feared knockout artist, was the mandatory challenger to “Canelo’s” throne, but the two sides ultimately agreed to take interim bouts in the meantime.

“GGG” would go on to starch a relative unknown mandatory challenger in Dominic Wade in just two rounds last month, and Alvarez recently knocked out former 147-pound title holder Amir “King” Khan on May 7th in Las Vegas.

With both men coming out victorious, the WBC set a timetable for the two to come to a deal regarding a fight, and if an agreement wasn’t come to by the set deadline, “Canelo” would be stripped of his title.

That deadline has yet to occur, but Alvarez announced today (May 18, 2016) that he would be vacating his title, claiming that he wouldn’t be forced into the ring under any terms aside from the ones he sets for himself.

In a statement released earlier today, “Canelo” explained the situation while also noting that he plans to continue negotiations with Golovkin in hopes of making the fight happen:

“After much consideration, today, I instructed my team at Golden Boy Promotions to continue negotiating a fight with Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin and to finalize a deal as quickly as possible,” Alvarez said in press release (Via Bad Left Hook).

“I also informed the WBC that I will vacate its title. For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man. Never has that been more true than today. I will fight ‘GGG,’ and I will beat ‘GGG’ but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines. I am hopeful that by putting aside this ticking clock, the two teams can now negotiate this fight, and ‘GGG’ and I can get in the ring as soon as possible and give the fans the fight they want to see.”

Alvarez’s promoter and head of Golden Boy Promotions, Oscar De La Hoya, reiterated the idea that “Canelo” is without question interested in doing battle with “GGG”:

“There is no denying that Canelo is the biggest star in the sport of boxing. He is eager to get in the ring with ‘GGG’ to show the world that he is also the best pound for pound fighter in the sport, but we won’t negotiate under a forced deadline,” said De La Hoya. “Now that the WBC title is off the table, I am hopeful that ‘GGG’ and his promoter K2 Promotions will come to the table in good faith and get this deal done.”

In the aftermath of Alvarez vacating his title, the WBC has officially promoted Golovkin to be their undisputed middleweight champion of the world.

Do you see this fight ever taking place?

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