Nate Diaz har blivit erbjuden en match mot ingen mindre än Tony Ferguson, men själv är Nate osäker på om han ens kommer att fightas under 2017. Diaz vill nämligen ha bättre betalt för att möta Ferguson, och anser att UFC behöver honom för att göra Tony mer intressant.
Detta hade Diaz att säga via ”The MMA Hour”:
I said, ‘right now I’m in (triathlon) race season, but if you want to pull me out of race season, yeah, let’s do it. But you’re going to have to reach my number. They’re trying to pressure me to fight Tony Ferguson, but what the f*ck, I’m going to cover for Conor McGregor and do his work while he’s out making f*cking millions of dollars fighting boxers and sh*t?
I’m not covering for you, bro. You guys fight each other. I heard Tony’s manager talking, saying that I need to get a fire up under Conor McGregor’s ass if I want to fight him for the third time. Like, I gotta do what? You guys should fight each other, motherf*cker. You guys have the same manager. You guys are working together against me. You guys need me to do the work for you? F*ck off.
That’s why they want me to fight Ferguson. Conor, Ferguson, and his manager’s plans are like, ‘okay, no one knows Ferguson. Nobody. And he’s tough. So what we’ll do is, we’ll have him fight Nate, and then if he wins, everyone will know him because he fought Nate. Then [Conor] could fight someone who everyone knows. But if you fight Conor right now, then Conor gets his ass whooped by somebody no one knows.’
You’re just trying to move forward and say what you think you need to say. But you don’t need to say that. Do what the f*ck, go fight Conor’s ass. But you guys work together so that’s not going to work. You guys are all in cahoots.
Nate har mött Conor McGregor vid sina två senaste matcher inne i oktogonen, där han vann det första mötet via submission och förlorade det andra via ett majoritetsdomslut.
