Lättviktaren Nate Diaz deltog under gårdagen i ett extrainsatt avsnitt av ’ The MMA Hour’ där fokus enbart var på honom och hur hans framtid i UFC ser ut. Diaz har vid ett flertal erbjudits matcher och tack nej, senast mot Tony Ferguson.
Stockton-bon anser att Ferguson borde möta Conor McGregor istället då de har samma manager och menar även att man medvetet försöker matcha honom mot Ferguson, för att gynna ett möte mellan Ferguson vs. McGregor om Diaz förlorar.
Nu har Ferguson svarat på uttalandena via ’Submission Radio’:
Well I figured, I was like,’ S**t, man. The next person that beat the dude that’s next in line would be Nate.’ So it had absolutely nothing to do with management and it had nothing to do with the f**king money either. I get paid either way and I get paid good. These dudes want to f**king make it soft and be like, ‘Oh money fight, money fight. This and that money fight.’ Yeah that’s cool. The money will come to you, you’ve just got to keep winning. You’ve gotta keep putting in the time but these b**ches want to fight like one time and then go and retire. I understand it. You’re a p**sy, don’t worry about it. You don’t like to fight. You’re in the wrong sport. Go try tennis.
This is a man’s sport. I fight. I like to have job security. Give me somebody in front of me that wants to have their ass beat. Give me somebody that wants to go in there and test their wit against me. I thought this was the UFC and we’re supposed to be the best and toughest fighters in the world. Point and proven, Khabib, McGregor, and Nate Diaz are a bunch of bitches. It’s all fake for them.
Ferguson har utmanat Diaz vid ett par tillfällen den senaste tiden sedan matchen mot Khabib Nurmagomedov ställdes in, men Diaz har avböjt båda gångerna. Ferguson känner nu frustation över situationen i viktklassen.
I’m realizing that this division is full of b**ches and I can’t help that. So I’m gonna find work wherever I’ve got to go. . .
I’m down to deliver ass-whoopings any day and I’ve been calling out the top guys and even calling out the lesser guys and there’s no bites. These motherf**kers are soft. The only people that I see that are willing to fight for the interim title are the guys that are in like the top 30. These dudes who are like number one, two, literally they f**kin’ disappeared. What are you gonna do if you have the division at a halt? I put this division at a halt, put it that way. I worked my ass up so far up into this division that I became a glitch.
Ferguson har funderat på andra alternativ för matcher och är även beredd på att pröva på weltervikten igen. Bältet är dock fortfarande hans primära mål.
Give me that title. Give me that title! Where’s that belt that’s mine? F**k you, Conor. F**k you, Conor. F**k you, Nate. You bunch of b**ches. You guys are holding hands in the f**king locker room. . .
I’m tired of the leprechaun. I’m tired of these fake-ass dudes. Let some real fighters up in the division. . . I want to fight. I want to work for something and earn it, how about that? When’s the last time somebody actually worked for something and earned it instead of talked their way f**king to it?
The UFC can only hide me for so long because I’m gonna have that b**ch one way or another. That belt’s gonna be mine. You want to give me another fight, I’m ready for it. You want to give me another interim title fight, that’s fine.
