In addition to all of his talk about the potential Conor McGregor rematch and rumored McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather boxing match, longtime UFC contender and rising star Nate Diaz spoke about some other topics during his …
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In addition to all of his talk about the potential Conor McGregor rematch and rumored McGregor vs. Floyd Mayweather boxing match, longtime UFC contender and rising star Nate Diaz spoke about some other topics during his special interview with Ariel Helwani on “The MMA Hour” at MMAFighting.com earlier this week.
Among the other topics was one about the reason why Nate doesn’t ever want to share a fight card with his brother, fellow longtime UFC star Nick Diaz.
“I don’t like to fight on the same card as anyone I train with, or my brother, especially,” Diaz said during his special interview with Helwani on Wednesday afternoon.
“I think fighting is a selfish sport,” Diaz continued. “You ain’t got time to think about anybody else but yourself, you know? For the training leading up to that fight, it should be all about you, a little bit. Or whoever is the guy fighting.”
“Fight night should all be about you and what you gotta do, and you shouldn’t have to be worrying about anyone else,” Diaz said. “Otherwise, you’re not going to be focused on yourself. I don’t want that sh*t going on in my head.”
Diaz also spoke about whether or not he feels his brother Nick Diaz, who is serving a Nevada Athletic Commission suspension for a positive marijuana test, will ever return to the fight world in the future.
“I think he will [return],” Diaz said. “There’s needs to be, Nick’s a big deal, a special human being, a special badass. There aren’t many made like him. I can’t predict what he’ll do, he’s so unpredictable. Even for me, and I know him better than most people. I still have no f*cking clue what he’s going to do.”
With lavish rumors about a potential boxing box seemingly cooled, the entire MMA community now awaits the announcement of Conor McGregor’s return to the octagon, but that isn’t going to stop “The Notorious” from relaxing and getting some rays. Well known for his flashy sense of style, the Irish superstar never ceases to raise eyebrows with
With lavish rumors about a potential boxing box seemingly cooled, the entire MMA community now awaits the announcement of Conor McGregor’s return to the octagon, but that isn’t going to stop “The Notorious” from relaxing and getting some rays.
Well known for his flashy sense of style, the Irish superstar never ceases to raise eyebrows with his always-changing wardrobe and accessories. But his choice of dress, which always goes against the norm, may have made him appear a bit creepy when he showed up on social media yesterday.
McGregor posted a photo of himself with longtime girlfriend Dee Devlin with a caption reading “beach life” on his Instagram, and some people are saying that the new glasses made “Notorious” appear a lot older and a substantial amount more creepy.
By now, even amidst a flurry of borderline outlandish rumors that UFC superstar Conor McGregor will be taking on boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr., it’s more than safe to say that the “Notorious’” feud with lightweight veteran Nate Diaz has taken over the MMA airwaves, and in no small way. Diaz only furthered the hype
By now, even amidst a flurry of borderline outlandish rumors that UFC superstar Conor McGregor will be taking on boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr., it’s more than safe to say that the “Notorious’” feud with lightweight veteran Nate Diaz has taken over the MMA airwaves, and in no small way.
Diaz only furthered the hype of the rapidly staling and overblown feud that features several odd dynamics we haven’t really seen from a UFC pairing before, during his revealing interview with Ariel Helwani on “The MMA Hour” yesterday, yet it doesn’t feel like we’re actually any closer to the bout being a reality.
To sum up the bizarre back-and-forth, Diaz submitted the Irish personality at March 5’s UFC 196 on only 11 days’ notice as a replacement for lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos, and the rematch was hastily booked at the champion’s request for the main event of July’s 200 despite Diaz stating he didn’t really want the fight again. The stage was set, but McGregor then “retired” for all of two days when he was pulled from the event for failing to attend a press conference in Las Vegas to promote the event.
It was clear a rift had arisen between McGregor and his employers, but McGregor un-retired as many predicted he would, the two sides met in Beverly Hills last week in an effort to presumably strike talks back up again, and indeed it appeared everyone was all smiles after the meet. Then came a similar encounter between Diaz and Dana White in Stockton, and things weren’t quite as hunky-dory as they had been further South down the California coast.
Diaz obviously wants to be paid like his Irish counterpart, the man he battered and submitted after losing the first round of their impromptu meeting at UFC 196; and there’s really not much argument that he shouldn’t. But there is the school of thought that McGregor is such a huge overarching star he simply provides a massive boost and draw to each and every opponent he faces win or lose.
While there may be some truth to that, there’s also no doubt that Diaz is a draw in his own right, and his win over “Notorious” only furthered his already considerable following to all-new levels afterwards. His interview with Helwani did the same yesterday (although on a smaller scale), and Diaz is quickly becoming one of the biggest stars in MMA in his own right. He’s stepped out from his older brother’s shadow quite nicely, and while he couldn’t reach the worldwide level of exposure that he did and will with McGregor as his foil, the younger Diaz is most certainly a “needle mover” by himself as White once accused him not of him being.
Read on to the next page to see why that’s the UFC should just buck up, swallow their pride, and pay Diaz what he wants.
During his appearance on a special edition of “The MMA Hour” with Ariel Helwani at MMAFighting.com, UFC contender Nate Diaz pointed out what most in the MMA community have been thinking all along regarding the rumors of …
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During his appearance on a special edition of “The MMA Hour” with Ariel Helwani at MMAFighting.com, UFC contender Nate Diaz pointed out what most in the MMA community have been thinking all along regarding the rumors of a potential boxing match between reigning UFC Featherweight Champion Conor McGregor and former boxing pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr.
As Diaz explained to Helwani on Wednesday afternoon during the special interview, which aired live on MMA Fighting and YouTube, all of the talk about McGregor vs. Mayweather is nothing more than a “publicity stunt.”
“I hear all this Mayweather-McGregor sh*t, and I feel like that’s just a big old publicity stunt to hide the fact that he got his ass whooped,” said Diaz. “It’s rumors somebody is letting out, because they’re both benefitting off each other’s fanbases and they’re both building off of it.”
Diaz continued, “They don’t care if it happens or not, they’re both winning right now from the talk even happening. That’s the truth about what’s really going. The media is working their way and they’re loving it. They’re probably having dinner together every night.”
As the talk of the McGregor-Mayweather subject continued, Diaz would also point out his belief that it’s simply a ploy by McGregor to use as negotiating leverage for their potential UFC rematch.
“That’s exactly what I think,” Diaz said. “Because every time I hear more about it, I get a call. I’m like, hey, I call your bluff. Fight that mother*cker then. I’ll be right here. I’m the only one out of the three of us that can say I’ll whip both of their asses in one night, because Conor can’t say that. Floyd definitely cannot say that.
“You just got boxed up. You didn’t get tapped out. He got beat up and shot. And I hear Mayweather saying [McGregor] wins most of his fights by fighting stand-up. I’m like, not with me. He was losing the stand-up part. He took a shot, that was his way out. I just think it’s all fake and phony, and people should recognize that. Let’s see that, Mayweather. I call your bluff. Fight Mayweather, mother*cker. Let’s see how that goes. I’ll be right here sitting back like, okay. And what’s going to happen? Mayweather is going to f*cking whoop his ass in a boxing match.”
Diaz wrapped up his take on the topic by talking more about the promotional side of the business, explaining that McGregor has been a lot of hype, while he has built his fanbase over the years mostly through his fighting in the cage without much help from the promotion itself.
“This mother*cker is on top of the world because the UFC wanted his ass in, and the whole Irish fanbase, and they gave him some push,” Diaz said. “They did that for him and got a little ahead of themselves, and probably didn’t realize that. But I did. They wanted me to fight him at UFC 200 a week [after UFC 196] or whatever, a couple months later, and I’m like, can’t I sit back for a year and a half and fight Dennis Siver and become the biggest draw and the biggest talk of the town? I don’t think they want any of that. Instead that start talking about Mayweather and McGregor, and this is the new biggest thing. I’m like, hold up, didn’t he just get his ass whooped two months ago?
“All I’m saying is, he’s getting pushed. They created that monster. They did that to him. My sh*t is off of straight realness.”
Despite previously being classified as a fighter who doesn’t tend to ‘move the needle’ by UFC president Dana White, Nate Diaz has always been a star, and a fan favorite to say the least. The Stockton native has been a popular name in the sport for years now, but perhaps his star power has never
Despite previously being classified as a fighter who doesn’t tend to ‘move the needle’ by UFC president Dana White, Nate Diaz has always been a star, and a fan favorite to say the least.
The Stockton native has been a popular name in the sport for years now, but perhaps his star power has never been as a high as it now. In recent months, Diaz has transformed into one of the biggest draws in the sport, taking his career to an all-new level.
Putting on one of the best interviews in recent memory on a special edition of The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani yesterday (Wed., May 25, 2016), Diaz spoke on the newfound attention he’s been receiving as well as the status of his future.
Expected to return to action in the coming months, it’s an interesting time to look back on the lengthy career of Stockton’s finest.
Let’s take a look at five times that Nate Diaz shined bright.
