Nate Diaz News

Tom Taylor - April 24, 2019

The official UFC rankings have been updated in the wake of Saturday’s UFC St. Petersburg card, and as expected there have been some notable changes. The biggest change, however, seems to be unrelated to the card, as long absent lightweight star Nate Diaz has finally been ejected from the UFC rankings. In terms of UFC St. Petersburg related changes, Alistair Overeem made a slight climb at heavyweight on the strength of his rousing TKO defeat of Alexey Oleynik.

Tom Taylor - March 25, 2019

Nate Diaz is definitely not a fan of UFC lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov, or former champ Conor McGregor. Late on Sunday night, he took a shot at both of them in a single Twitter post. Diaz’s Tweet included an image taken shortly after he defeated McGregor in 2016, along with some added text that makes it very clear how he feels about sambo, Nurmagomedov’s martial art of choice.

Mike Pendleton - March 23, 2019

As the landscape of the UFC’s lightweight division begins to start taking shape with recent fight announcements, there might be a high-profile trilogy fight coming for the fans. During his Q&A session in Chicago, Conor McGregor spoke about a third fight with his rival, Nate Diaz. It’s been over two years since Nate Diaz and McGregor fought, with the last fight going the way of McGregor’s by majority decision at UFC 202. Now that Dustin Poirier and Max Holloway are fighting for the interim title at UFC 236 and Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and Al Iaquinta are scheduled to face each other, the path has been cleared for a trilogy between Diaz and McGregor.

Tom Taylor - March 18, 2019

Jorge Masvidal was recently linked to a welterweight scrap with Nick Diaz, but unfortunately, reports of this bout proved to be inaccurate. The good news is that, fresh off a knockout of Darren Till, Masvidal says he’s willing to fight Nick’s brother Nate Diaz. Jorge Masvidal dropped this exciting tidbit during an impromptu Q&A with his fans on Twitter.

Tom Taylor - March 10, 2019

According to Brett Okamoto of ESPN, fan favorite lightweight contenders Nate Diaz and Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone recently discussed a potential rematch — but not at lightweight. Okamoto says Cowboy and Diaz chatted about a rematch backstage at UFC 235. Diaz suggested he was up for it, but so long as there was no weight cut involved. That apparently means the fight would have to occur in the 185-pound middleweight division — a weight class neither man has competed in before.

Chris Taylor - March 9, 2019

Earlier this week was the three-year anniversary of the first fight between Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz which took place at UFC 196 in March of 2016. Diaz, who took the pairs initial fight on short-notice, went on to submit McGregor with a rear-naked choke in Round Two at the event.

Tom Taylor - March 6, 2019

In the short period of time he was in Las Vegas to watch UFC 235, it seems that Colby Covington had some kind of altercation or run-in with everybody else in the city. He crashed Kamaru Usman’s open workout. He ambushed UFC President Dana White at the blackjack table. He got into it with Tyron Woodley’s mother and NFL player Todd Gurley in the crowd…. And apparently, he had words with fan favorite lightweight Nate Diaz too…

Tom Taylor - March 5, 2019

Three years ago today, UFC featherweight champ Conor McGregor hiked up the welterweight division for a compelling showdown with the veteran Nate Diaz. Diaz had stepped in to fight McGregor on a mere 11 days’ notice, replacing the injured Rafael dos Anjos, and was not given much of a chance against the seemingly unstoppable Irish knockout artist. Early on in the fight, it looked like Nate Diaz would be the latest recipient of a Conor McGregor striking clinic. The Stockton based fan favorite absorbed quite a bit of punishment from his Irish foe, and seemed to be in for a tough night.

Chris Taylor - February 23, 2019

Former UFC lightweight title challenger Nate Diaz was expected to square off with Dustin Poirier at UFC 230 this past November in New York. Unfortunately for fight fans, “The Diamond” suffered an injury in the lead up to the fight, which ultimately forced him to be pulled from the card.

Tom Taylor - February 18, 2019

Shortly after last night’s UFC Phoenix card wrapped up, UFC President Dana White partook in a interview with Megan Olivi. Mid-way through this interview, we were treated to a rare Nate Diaz appearance. After White and Diaz greet each other, Olivi asked Diaz if he’d be fighting again soon.

Tom Taylor - February 12, 2019

Fan favorite UFC lightweight contender Nate Diaz will be returning to the cage this weekend at UFC Phoenix on ESPN, he just won’t be doing any fighting. Instead, the younger Diaz brother will be cornering BJJ ace Kron Gracie in his UFC debut opposite the always exciting Alex Caceres. ESPN’s Greg Rosenstein has the details:

Tom Taylor - February 10, 2019

Last night, in the co-main event of UFC 234, middleweight legend Anderson Silva lost a decision to surging middleweight contender Israel Adesanya — but he’s not ready to hang up the gloves quite yet. Instead, Silva is hoping to return to the cage at UFC 237, which goes down this May in Curitiba, Brazil. Post-fight, the Brazilian reiterated his desire to fight on this card, and named Nick Diaz, who he battled to a no contest in 2015, as potential opponent.

Thomas Taylor - January 20, 2019

Streaking UFC lightweight contender Dustin Poirier was briefly scheduled to return to the cage opposite Nate Diaz at UFC 230 in early November, but unfortunately, that plan was derailed when he sustained a hip injury that forced him off the card. At least, that’s what we thought. Responding to a fan on Twitter on Sunday afternoon, Dustin Poirier claimed that, by the time he withdrew from the card with a hip injury, Nate Diaz had already dropped out of the matchup himself.

Tom Taylor - January 13, 2019

Things are tense atop the UFC lightweight division. Over the last few days, champ Khabib Nurmagomedov and former champ Conor McGregor have been trading shots on social media, and on Sunday morning, fan favorite contender Nate Diaz inserted himself into the fracas, rekindling his old beef with Nurmagomedov, which began with a heated altercation at a World Series of Fighting show in 2015. I slapped you in your head you and your team didn’t do shit …Live with that ur all pussies

Tom Taylor - January 13, 2019

Over the last few days, former UFC lightweight and featherweight champion Conor McGregor and reigning lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov have engaged in a fiery war of words on social media. And now, another premier player in the UFC lightweight division has joined the fracas: Nate Diaz. Nate Diaz took a shot at Khabib Nurmagomedov after Nurmagomedov went after Conor McGregor on Twitter.

Tom Taylor - January 9, 2019

In the opinion of UFC color commentator Joe Rogan, Nate Diaz is one of the biggest stars in the UFC — perhaps almost as big a star as Conor McGregor. Rogan gave his take on the star power of the younger Diaz brother on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience MMA Show, discussing the topic with American Top Team coach Din Thomas.

Tom Taylor - December 28, 2018

When it was announced that Jon Jones would be allowed to fight at UFC 232 in California, despite trace amounts of turinabol turning up on several of his recent drug tests, several of his fellow fighters piped up, questioning the integrity of the UFC and the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). Jones’s arch rival Daniel Cormier was one of the first to do so, and now, fan favorite lightweight contender Nate Diaz has done the same. Apparently, Nate Diaz no longer plans on opening his door when USADA comes to collect samples.

Chris Taylor - December 22, 2018

Max Holloway handed Brian Ortega the first loss of his professional career earlier this month at UFC 231 and made it look easy. The current UFC featherweight kingpin, Holloway battered “T-City” with a record-setting number of significant strikes on route to a fourth-round TKO victory.