Richard Perez | UFC Betting Sites - The Best MMA Online Bookies

Conor McGregor may have been awarded a majority decision win over rival Nate Diaz in the main event of UFC 202 on August 20, 2016, but the decision didn’t come without controversy, as some felt as if Diaz should’ve been the victor. In fact, Diaz’s longtime boxing coach, Richard Perez, feels as if the judges were on McGregor’s side so that a third ‘money fight’ between McGregor and Diaz could be set up:

“I watched it when I came home. I came home and watched it four or five times already, and the judges were going for McGregor. I mean, you could tell. It’s obvious. And I figured, okay, they want a third fight. You know, a company just bought it out, they want to make more money. They just bought the UFC. If I bought the UFC, I would try to make it as best as I can to get a third fight, to make more money. That’s a money-maker right there. That’s a big money-maker – more than any other fight that’s happening now. So they would be smart to do a third fight.” Perez told Submission Radio.

Perez also claims that a trilogy bout is the only bout to make despite UFC President Dana White recently saying that he was moving away from the rivalry. Perez also said that pitting the two against each other would result in the biggest payday for everyone involved:

“You know and I know and the media knows that it was such an awesome fight, I mean, it was like a storm. Everybody’s telling me, I wanna see that again. They want to see that again. That’s gonna be the most big payday for both of them, and for the business, the new UFC people that own it. So if they’re smart enough, they would do it. They will set that up. There’s nobody else. If Nathan goes and fights B.J. Penn or Georges St-Pierre or anyone like that, or even if McGregor (fights them), that’s not gonna be a money-maker. Because those guys haven’t fought in a long time and they’re not action fighters like Nathan fighting McGregor. If anything, Georges St-Pierre will take him to the ground and just hold him and just wrestle him around. And then he’ll probably beat him up because McGregor’s not good on the ground, so he’ll probably tap him out.”

“If I was the UFC owner, I would say let’s do number three again. After that, he can go back to 145 if he wants, or 155. That’s where they’re fighting at, 155 – which is good if they fight at 155, because if Nathan wins he can go for the belt. But that’s not what he wants. Just like McGregor, they want the money. They want paydays.”

Aside from the payday, Perez also simply said that there’s ‘unfinished business’ between the two:

“Unfinished business. (There needs to be) Number three.”

The post Coach: McGregor Won Because They Want Third Fight appeared first on LowKick MMA.

The UFC 202 pre-fight press conference was certainly a wild one to say the least.

What was expected to be just a normal McGregor press event filled with trash-talk and F-bombs turned into an all out war between the a lone Irishman and the entire ‘Scrap Pack’.

Hell broke loose after UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor and the entire Nate Diaz team threw water bottles at one another from across the theatre, after Diaz decided to walk out of the presser shortly following McGregor’s ‘rude’ late arrival.

Diaz’s boxing coach Richard Perez recently spoke to our good friends over at Submission Radio, courtesy of MMA Fighting, and backed his fighter’s decision to walk out of the press conference following the Irish champion’s late arrival to the press conference:

“I thought [Nate] did the right thing, just to walk out and got on McGregor’s nerves. He didn’t like it. He didn’t know how to handle it. So acted like a little kid and started throwing bottles -?? which he shouldn’t have, but Nathan got to him.”

Some skepticism has begun to brew that the altercation was staged, however, Perez insists that the altercation was all organic:

“It was a spontaneous thing. It wasn’t planned at all. McGregor, I guess he thinks he’s the king and can come in when he wants. Nathan was sitting just there talking, he didn’t care. And then when he came in, then he just said, you know what, it’s my turn to leave.”

Perez also refuted claims that Diaz cut from 200 pounds to make the 170-pound contest against McGregor, stating the Stockton Native walks around at 179-pounds at the most:

“He’s not 200 pounds. What happened was, he sparred some guys and he hits really hard, but he was like 179-176 (pounds), something like that – and they just said he hit like a 200-pounder. But he wasn’t 200 pounds. Never. Not even close. I think right now he said he was 172.”

As for McGregor’s chances Saturday night, Perez believes all of the Irishman’s talk is just false confidence in attempt to pump himself up, and that a trilogy bout between the two brash rivals is never going to happen:

“No. McGregor won’t do it. He won’t do it. No way. He’s just saying that right now because he’s in front of the media. He has to say something positive about himself, but it’s not gonna happen.”

McGregor and Diaz will meet in the main event of UFC 202 live on pay-per-view (PPV), from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Nevada this Saturday (August 20, 2016).

The post Diaz’ Coach: Conor McGregor ‘Acted Like A Kid’ appeared first on LowKick MMA.