Over the past few weeks, the mixed martial arts world has been abuzz with whispers of a Floyd Mayweather versus Conor McGregor boxing mega-fight that, in all likelihood, will never actually happen.
Nate Diaz is confident the whole thing is meant to be a distraction from the real matters at hand.
"I hear all this Mayweather-McGregor sh*t, and I feel like that's just a big old publicity stunt to hide the fact that he got his ass whooped," Diaz said of McGregor on a special Wednesday edition of The MMA Hour.
"It's rumors somebody is letting out, because they're both benefitting off each other's fanbases and they're both building off of it. They don't care if it happens or not, they're both winning right now from the talk even happening. That's the truth about what's really going. The media is working their way and they're loving it. They're probably having dinner together every night."
Diaz thinks the whole thing is a ploy from McGregor to use as leverage in his negotiations with the UFC.
"That's exactly what I think," Diaz said. "Because every time I hear more about it, I get a call. I'm like, hey, I call your bluff. Fight that mother*cker then. I'll be right here. I'm the only one out of the three of us that can say I'll whip both of their asses in one night, because Conor can't say that. Floyd definitely cannot say that."
Ultimately, Diaz is confident that the game McGregor is playing is simply a business move, and for that he doesn't begrudge the Irishman because Diaz is dancing the same dance with the UFC as well.
"This mother*cker is on top of the world because the UFC wanted his ass in, and the whole Irish fanbase, and they gave him some push," Diaz said. "They did that for him and got a little ahead of themselves, and probably didn't realize that. But I did. They wanted me to fight him at UFC 200 a week [after UFC 196] or whatever, a couple months later, and I'm like, can't I sit back for a year and a half and fight Dennis Siver and become the biggest draw and the biggest talk of the town? I don't think they want any of that. Instead that start talking about Mayweather and McGregor, and this is the new biggest thing. I'm like, hold up, didn't he just get his ass whooped two months ago?
"All I'm saying is, he's getting pushed. They created that monster. They did that to him. My sh*t is off of straight realness."
LINK: Nate Diaz knows Floyd Mayweather talk is a 'publicity stunt' to hide that Conor McGregor 'got his ass whooped'
