Nate Diaz använde sig nyligen av sociala medier för att rikta ett meddelande till en av hans rivaler, den tidigare dubbelmästaren Conor McGregor.
”Jag var tillbaka vid det här laget”
Diaz och McGregor har mötts vid två tillfällen tidigare och det står i nuläget 1-1, i inbördes möten. Det första mötet gick av stapeln i samband med UFC 196, där Diaz avslutade irländaren i matchens andra rond. Redan samma år fick ”The Notorious” revansch på amerikanen, då han tog hem en seger via majoritetsdomslut, under UFC 202. Under årets inledning menade McGregor att han skulle gå tre matcher under kalenderåret. Någonting som ESPN-journalisten Ariel Helwani berättade om för ’SportsCentre’, tidigare år.
Okay, so he has laid out this plan that he wants to fight three times next year. And he hasn’t done that in over three years as well, so it’s a pretty lofty goal. But he believes that when he is active, then he’s not getting distracted, he’s not getting in trouble. He’s very focused. And people are telling me right now that they haven’t seen him this focused in a very long time.
You hear this a lot in the fight game, but he’s going to sleep early, he’s waking up early. He wants to prove to everyone that thinks he’s shot that they are wrong. So he wants to fight January 18th – in fact, he wanted to fight in December but the UFC didn’t give him that opportunity. So he wanted to fight at the beginning of the year, then he wants to return towards spring / summer, maybe fight Jorge Masvidal or Nate Diaz.
Perhaps that’s why this fight is happening at 170, to prove that he can hang with the welterweights. And then he wants to fight at the end of the year against Khabib Nurmagomedov, if he is still the champion, in Moscow. He wants to right that wrong.
He wants to win those two fights, get the title fight, and shut everyone up.
Diaz riktar nu kritik mot McGregor och undrar vad som hände med hans planer för året. Via Diaz ’Twitter’-konto.
What happened to your season?
I was allready back in by now wtf
34-åriga Diaz såg vi senast i samband med UFC 244. Där gick han förlorande ur en batalj med Jorge Masvidal, som tog hem segern via läkarstopp.
What happened to your season?
I was allready back in by now wtf
Anton McGregor 
april 19, 2024