Deadspin hero Nate Diaz spent an hour with Ariel Helwani this afternoon on a special edition of The MMA Hour. It did not disappoint. Let’s run through the highlights.
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Nick Diaz Explains That Getting Your Ass Beat By Nick Diaz Is A Good Way To Make Money
It’s been more than two years since culture hero Nick Diaz last fought, and more than five since he last won, but he remains Nick Diaz. While there’s not much to this quick interview with TMZ, note the highly Diaz-esque logic behind his argument that middleweight champion Michael Bisping should fight Diaz at a…
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Nate Diaz Figures The UFC Should Pay Him $20 Million To Fight
The UFC is in a bit of a bind. They’d like to book the entertaining Khabib Nurmagomedov in a March fight for one of their multiple lightweight titles, but for stupid reasons they don’t have a good matchup for him right now. MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani texted children’s role model and potential Nurmagomedov opponent Nate Diaz tonight and got back the following: “I’m only fighting at lightweight for a big fight or 20 million just to take the call.” He also declared that he has no interest in fighting Conor McGregor a third time both because he already beat him up once and because the UFC isn’t offering him enough money to make it worth his while.
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