Nate Diaz recounts handing Conor McGregor his | MMA News
Ten days before UFC 196 in March 2016, the struggle card misplaced one of its important occasion fighters. A light-weight title bout between then-featherweight champion Conor McGregor and light-weight titleholder Rafael Dos Anjos was scheduled to headline the occasion but a damaged foot pressured dos Anjos out of the struggle.
Nate Diaz was vacationing when he bought the call from the struggle promotion about stepping in to face McGregor. Diaz accepted the struggle and the remainder is historical past. The Stockton, Calif. native regarded back on handing the Irishman his first UFC loss on Out Cold with Chuck Liddell.
“We were chillin big time and kicking it. I already yelled for the fight and it wasn’t happening, so I was like, f**k this fight. I was kicking it hard and then they called and it happened,” Diaz defined. “I was like, alright, I’m not going to pass up the fight that I just yelled for. As it got closer I was like, sh*t, I haven’t been doing sh*t. So, I’m going to jog around the ring for 15 minutes and start at 15. I’ll go hard for 10 because it’s a 25-minute fight. I was like, alright, I’ll just jog around.”
When he accepted the short-notice struggle, Diaz knew he did not need to lose to the brash McGregor. It had gotten personal.
“A guy like this you can’t lose to because the sh*t that he’s talking especially, you know, your mom’s watching. Your girl’s watching. The people at home are watching and then you get your ass whooped by him you have to go back home to that,” Diaz mentioned. “I can’t sleep with that. I can’t live with that, so we’re not going to lose this fight. Him and a few different people too…
“When somebody’s attempting to f**king just embarrass you in entrance of the world, they don’t seem to be the simplest. They’re the toughest struggle to prepare for and get to but they’re those that prove the best because it is a actual struggle.”
In the fight, McGregor had success against Diaz early landing clean shots and leaving him bloodied. Diaz blamed it on the lack of preparation and the jogging around the ring training.
“Jogging around, that ain’t how I struggle. Jogging around go me socked all up. That’s why I used to be bleeding and sh*t,” Diaz said. “About 5 minutes in I used to be like, okay, I ain’t doing that no more. Six minutes in, I’m not doing that no more. I began combating like I struggle and closing the gap and began sporting him down, breaking him down. When I began combating regular, he is beginning to get his ass whooped. F**ok the sport plan.”
Diaz and McGregor rematched 5 months later at UFC 202. McGregor gained via majority determination and the bout earned Fight of the Night honors.
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