![]() ![]() Chimaev, meanwhile, took on Kevin Holland in the co-main event.ĭiaz (22-13) is a cult favorite who reached superstardom with a 2016 submission win over Conor McGregor. convos: Two days in the 209 with Nate Diazįerguson was scheduled to fight Li Jingliang, who was shifted to a fight with Daniel Rodriguez. Diaz has been in the UFC since 2007 and is an 18-year pro in mixed martial arts. Earlier this week, Diaz's team announced Diaz would be starting his own combat sports promotion, Real Fight Inc. This was the final fight on Diaz's UFC contract and he has indicated that he will not return to the promotion for now. Diaz called Chimaev a "b-h ass" rookie and said he only trained wrestling during this camp because Chimaev is a dominant wrestler. Diaz understandably opted not to fight an opponent who was so overweight. And with that, the lore of Diaz - one of the most popular, unconventional fighters in MMA history - continues.ĭiaz was initially supposed to fight Chimaev, but Chimaev missed weight by 7.5 pounds Friday, coming in at 178.5 for a 171-pound-limit bout. On Saturday night, with Tony Ferguson as the opponent after a bizarre, unprecedented several days, Diaz will leave the promotion as a winner, courtesy of a guillotine choke submission at 2:52 of the fourth round in the main event of UFC 279 at T-Mobile Arena. Finish off my night like a soldier.LAS VEGAS - When this week started, Nate Diaz's opponent was the dominant rising star Khamzat Chimaev - a little parting gift from the UFC as Diaz heads out the door. I'm about to go to, Las Vegas, shout out to Light (laughs). And he's supposed to do some shit at, at the club and do an afterparty. If I would have been fighting me, I’d have took me clean out.”ĭespite taking the L, Diaz threw more shade at McGregor to act like he was the tougher of the two claiming that he was still standing upright ready to party at Las Vegas nightclub Light while McGregor was at the nearby hospital recovering from the fight: And I got that all on tape, just to set it up, not to make excuses cuz I got all that video’d up.” And that put me out of sparring about two and a half weeks ago. I got hit in the body by my, Alan Sanchez is a really good boxer, skilled boxer. ![]() And then about two weeks after that, I was just sparring boxing and I really hurt my rib. “I hurt my knee about a month ago, and I wasn’t able to train jiu jitsu for the past month. I got the whole thing on tape.” Diaz explained. Diaz claims that along with a rib injury he got after sparring in his boxing training partially contributed to him losing in his rematch with McGregor: Then he spoke openly about a knee injury that he suffered during his training one month prior to the fight. ![]() I feel like they should've took points for that." You see me chasing him around that thing, like, 'Where are you going?' I'm pointing at him and he's scared to engage. That in part, I thought he should've gotten a yellow card for that type of thing, you know? He ran the whole fight. ![]() I've been saying, and my brother's been that for years. I got paid, it's all good, you know what I'm saying? I don't think he did much. But here's what he had to say about McGregor running from him in the Octagon: Naturally, Diaz thought that he should have been chosen or scored a higher number of points on the card to get the majority decision in his favor, though he lamented that he could've done better things in his strategic attack to seal the victory. After Nate Diaz lost in his rematch against Conor McGregor at UFC 202 early Sunday morning, he seemed visibly despondent-and punch drunk-when he spoke to the reporters about his takeaways from the fight. ![]()
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