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Nate Diaz Calls Conor McGregor’s Accomplishment ‘Artificial’

Nate Diaz believes McGregor’s lightweight title shot was gifted to him by the UFC. This past weekend at UFC 205, featherweight champion Conor McGregor made history when he defeated lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez to become the promotion’s first simultaneous multi-division champ. Diaz and McGregor met inside the octagon twice this year. Diaz was able to submit

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Nate Diaz believes McGregor’s lightweight title shot was gifted to him by the UFC.

This past weekend at UFC 205, featherweight champion Conor McGregor made history when he defeated lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez to become the promotion’s first simultaneous multi-division champ.

Diaz and McGregor met inside the octagon twice this year. Diaz was able to submit McGregor in their first meeting at UFC 196, but dropped a decision to the Irishman the second time around in August at UFC 202.

After winning the rematch, McGregor immediately got a shot at the lightweight title. In an interview with ESPN, Diaz says the title fight turned out as he thought it would, and believes the belt was essentially ‘handed’ to McGregor.

“I think it is a little bit artificial. It was handed over,” Diaz said. “It was good timing for him. He did everything right and they handed it to him … He went into the fight like I expected he would. Especially against that guy. I expected that fight would go exactly like it went.”

Fans have been calling for a rubber match between the two ever since the bell sounded to end their second fight. As far as Diaz is concerned, the UFC is doing their best to keep him out of the mix and isn’t even sure they want him in the same building as McGregor.

 “The UFC didn’t even want to give me tickets to this fight,” Diaz said. “I was up in the club box and after the fight everyone is turned around looking at me. I’m like, ‘it’s not my call they’re hiding me out up here’ I think they gave Nick Jonas my seat.

“It might have been in his contract, ‘Don’t let Nate Diaz in here because that might start something’.”

Diaz says he is still interested in a third fight with McGregor, but isn’t about to beg anybody for it. Both fights between the two were record-setting events, ranking as two of the top three events in the companies history.

You’d think with the two of them generating that sort of cash the UFC would be quick to make the rubber match, but Diaz believes he knows what all the hesitation about.

“The UFC knows that is a bad idea for him,” Diaz said. “I know what happened in the fight with me and him the last time and he knows what happened and people know what happened.”

It wasn’t all bad, though. Diaz did have some praise for McGregor and his accomplishments at UFC 205, but feels like calling him the greatest of all time is unwarranted.

“Congratulations to Conor, great job, got the two belts,” Diaz said. “Me and him know what happened in the last couple of fights and the greatest of all time stuff, that needs to come to and end. I don’t remember any of the greatest of all time getting worked over like the last couple fights.”

McGregor’s coach has already dropped the seed that he would like to see McGregor and Diaz fight one more time.

Only time will tell if they actually do.

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Should The UFC Let Conor McGregor Fight At UFC 200?

After all is said and done, hasn’t McGregor put in a ton of work already? UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor is unique in many ways. He has a natural talent for both fighting and selling events for the promotion, something the UFC is not used to at this level. So grand is McGregor’s gift of

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After all is said and done, hasn’t McGregor put in a ton of work already?

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor is unique in many ways. He has a natural talent for both fighting and selling events for the promotion, something the UFC is not used to at this level. So grand is McGregor’s gift of the gab that many argue he has began to surpass the promotion itself in popularity, something that UFC president Dana White is clearly not happy with. All this has led to a week of constant McGregor and UFC 200 headlines, each of which stemmed from this single Tweet.

Conor McGregor’s retirement Tweet this past Tuesday set in motion a set of highly unexpected happenings, and eventually led to the highly entertaining UFC 200 press conference last night, at which ‘The Notorious’ was not present. Although he had swiftly un-retired just days after that first announcement, the damage was apparently already done. The beef seems to have come from McGregor’s reluctance to attend the first week of media obligations for his scheduled UFC 200 rematch with Nate Diaz, something the promotion was not willing to accept.

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Dana White confirmed that McGregor was being pulled from the July 9 mega fight with Diaz, in a strange twist of circumstances. We all sat back and witnessed the Irish star rise to prominence in just a matter of years under the UFC banner, and suddenly he is throwing a spanner in the works in the form of his pseudo retirement and refusal to commit to the media tour. So how/why has this happened? Well, assuming that the facts thus far are accurate, this seems to be a kind of phallic comparison between McGregor and the UFC brass.

During the UFC 200 presser last night (April 22, 2016) McGregor sent out another Tweet, this time pointing out how much he’d made the UFC in his last eight month/three fight stretch…

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12 Best UFC Fighters To Never Win A UFC Title

Throughout the nearly 23-year history of the UFC, there’s been an elite group of champions that truly define both their weight class and era with unique and transcendent skills. Names like Anderson Silva, Georges St. Pierre, Jon Jones, Randy Couture, and Matt Hughes have all made their mark upon MMA as one of the greatest

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Throughout the nearly 23-year history of the UFC, there’s been an elite group of champions that truly define both their weight class and era with unique and transcendent skills. Names like Anderson Silva, Georges St. Pierre, Jon Jones, Randy Couture, and Matt Hughes have all made their mark upon MMA as one of the greatest champions of all-time.

However, there is also another group of fighters who, while no doubt world-class and among the best of their respective eras, simply could not rise above the truly game-breaking champions above them to win the belt. Some of them were ousted by the legends of the fight game, and others never got the title shot.

Regardless, these fighters will go down as solid and effective in their own right, but just not good enough to be called UFC champion (at least not yet for some). Let’s take a look at the best fighters to never win a UFC championship.

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Nate Diaz Claims He’s Fighting Conor McGregor at UFC 189

Nate Diaz does what Nate Diaz wants to do. And apparently what one half of Stockton’s finest brotherly duo wants to do right now is step in to face Conor McGregor at UFC 189. Then again, maybe he really doesn’t, but that won’t stop him from keeping an already-fire Twitter game ablaze. After news that […]

Nate Diaz does what Nate Diaz wants to do. And apparently what one half of Stockton’s finest brotherly duo wants to do right now is step in to face Conor McGregor at UFC 189. Then again, maybe he really doesn’t, but that won’t stop him from keeping an already-fire Twitter game ablaze. After news that […]

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Khabib Nurmagomedov Wants to Fight Anthony Pettis and Nate Diaz on Same Night

Just as there is no shortage of friction in the upper tier of the lightweight division, injuries are also prevalent at the elite level of the 155-pound fold. Khabib Nurmagomedov and Anthony Pettis have exchanged barbs in interviews and across social media platforms over the past year, with trigger points for both being focused on […]

Just as there is no shortage of friction in the upper tier of the lightweight division, injuries are also prevalent at the elite level of the 155-pound fold. Khabib Nurmagomedov and Anthony Pettis have exchanged barbs in interviews and across social media platforms over the past year, with trigger points for both being focused on […]

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Nate Diaz Puts Anthony Pettis, Khabib Nurmagomedov on Blast for Injury Woes

UFC lightweight Nate Diaz isn’t happy about the injury plague in the UFC either, guys.  Late Thursday evening, it was announced on Fox Sports Live that former UFC lightweight champion Anthony “Showtime” Pettis was injured and out of his fight against Myles “Fury” Jury at UFC on Fox 16 (h/t MMAjunkie‘s Mike Bohn). According to the […]

UFC lightweight Nate Diaz isn’t happy about the injury plague in the UFC either, guys.  Late Thursday evening, it was announced on Fox Sports Live that former UFC lightweight champion Anthony “Showtime” Pettis was injured and out of his fight against Myles “Fury” Jury at UFC on Fox 16 (h/t MMAjunkie‘s Mike Bohn). According to the […]

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