Nate Diaz News

Tom Taylor - August 8, 2018

Earlier this month, it was announced that fan favorite lightweight contender Nate Diaz will make his long-awaited return to the Octagon opposite top contender Dustin Poirier. The pair are expected to collide in the co-main event of UFC 230 on November 3 in New York City. Late last week, the UFC held a massive press conference featuring all the stars of their upcoming shows — including Diaz and Poirier. The promotion also took this opportunity to announce a highly anticipated lightweight title fight between champ Khabib Nurmagomedov and challenger Conor McGregor. This news cast a massive shadow over everybody else at the press conference — including Diaz.

Tom Taylor - August 7, 2018

Late last week, it was announced that fan favorite lightweight contender Nate Diaz will make his long-awaited return to the Octagon opposite top contender Dustin Poirier. The pair are expected to collide in the co-main event of UFC 230 on November 3 in New York City. Shortly thereafter, the UFC held a massive press conference featuring all the stars of their upcoming shows — including Diaz and Poirier. The promotion also took this opportunity to announce a highly anticipated lightweight title fight between champ Khabib Nurmagomedov and challenger Conor McGregor. This news cast a massive shadow over everybody else at the press conference — including Diaz.

Tom Taylor - August 6, 2018

Late last week, it was announced that fan favorite lightweight contender Nate Diaz will make his long-awaited return to the Octagon opposite top contender Dustin Poirier. The pair are expected to collide in the co-main event of UFC 230 on November 3 in New York City. On Friday, the UFC held a massive press conference featuring all the stars of their upcoming shows — including Diaz and Poirier. The promotion also took this opportunity to announce a highly anticipated lightweight title fight between champ Khabib Nurmagomedov and challenger Conor McGregor. This news cast a massive shadow over everybody else at the press conference — including Diaz.

Chris Taylor - August 4, 2018

Earlier this week it was announced that former lightweight title challenger Nate Diaz would be making his highly anticipated return to the octagon against Dustin Poirier at November’s UFC 230 event in New York. The Stockton Slugger has not stepped foot in the octagon since UFC 202 in August of 2016, where he suffered a controversial majority decision loss to Conor McGregor.

Drake Riggs - August 3, 2018

The day after Dustin Poirier vs Nate Diaz gets made, the UFC seems to have possibly found a way to upset the returning party. That being none other than Stockton, California’s finest in the younger of the two Diaz brothers.

Drake Riggs - August 2, 2018

As we anticipate the likely announcement of Khabib Nurmagomedov vs Conor McGregor any day now, a new and surprising fight has come up. Recently earning the biggest win of his career in his big rematch with the former champion Eddie Alvarez, Dustin Poirier has already inked his next fight. And to the surprise of surely everyone, it will come against Nate Diaz in UFC 230’s co-main event on November 3rd according to the LA Times.

Jordy McElroy - June 27, 2018

More eyes will be on the UFC than ever before with the partnership with ESPN taking flight in 2019, and UFC President Dana White, along with matchmakers Sean Shelby and Mick Maynard, will be turning over every rock to give fans the dream fights they want to see. Trilogies, grudge matches, champion vs. champion bouts—everything is on the table when the MMA mecca begins business with the mainstream sports media conglomerate.

Tom Taylor - June 26, 2018

If Conor McGregor fights again — which is starting to sound more and more likely — it will probably be against reigning UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov. While McGregor’s head coach John Kavanagh is all for this fight, he says he’d prefer to see McGregor engage in a trilogy fight with Nate Diaz first. “Nate Diaz is my favourite fight, by the way,” Kavanagh said in a Friday sit-down with MMA analyst Robin Black (transcribed Jim Edwards for MMANytt). “If I could pick a fight for the next one it would be that trilogy. I realise it’s not the fan favourite.

Tom Taylor - May 29, 2018

Siyar Bahadurzada wants to fight Nate Diaz. The streaking UFC welterweight-turned-middleweight has made that quite clear with several recent social media posts, throughout which he’s called the Stockton, California native out. Bahadurzada issued his latest call out of Nate Diaz on Tuesday, and accused him of being “terrified to get knocked out.”

Drake Riggs - May 15, 2018

Last Friday night things got a little bit wild in the audience of the Combate 20 event. As seems to generally be the case when Nate Diaz shows up attending MMA fights in the crowd… Infamously known for two brawls prior to this one, Diaz and his brother Nick were banned from World Series of Fighting events for life after a scuffle with Khabib Nurmagomedov and company a few years back. Going even further back, there was the Nashville brawl in Strikeforce after the Diaz’ teammate, Jake Shields retained his middleweight title by beating Dan Henderson.

Drake Riggs - May 14, 2018

“Let me say this in a very educated way… I think that those two guys [Georges St-Pierre and Nate Diaz] contemplating fighting is the hugest bitch move on the planet.

Tom Taylor - May 14, 2018

Over the last few weeks, there has been significant buzz about a rumored UFC 227 lightweight scrap between former UFC welterweight and middleweight champ Georges St-Pierre, and long-time lightweight contender Nate Diaz. These rumors reached a crescendo when UFC President Dana White claimed the promotion was actually working on the fight.

Drake Riggs - May 10, 2018

The news that’s gotten most of the buzz lately is that of a potential Nate Diaz vs Georges St-Pierre fight in which Dana White confirmed is what he would like to add to UFC 227 in Los Angeles, California on August 4th. While the fight between the former two-division UFC champion and The Ultimate Fighter season 5 winner has yet to be made official, the news alone of it being in the works has confused people to an extent. One of which being a close friend and former training partner of GSP’s at TriStar, retired UFC veteran turned analyst, Kenny Florian.

Tom Taylor - May 8, 2018

Over the weekend, reports surfaced that former UFC welterweight and middleweight champion Georges St-Pierre could be fighting Nate Diaz at UFC 227 on August 4 in Los Angeles. https://twitter.com/MIKERUSSELLMMA/status/992990891865407488

Chris Taylor - May 6, 2018

Report | Georges St-Pierre could return at UFC 227 in Los Angeles Former UFC welterweight and middleweight champion Georges St-Pierre (26-2 MMA) could potentially return to the octagon on August 4 in Los Angeles.

Chris Taylor - May 5, 2018

Kevin Lee eyes a fight with “The Stockton Slugger” at UFC 227 in Los Angeles Former UFC interim lightweight title challenger Kevin Lee (17-3 MMA) believes he is the man who will eventually dethrone current 155-pound champion Khabib Nurmagomedov.

Tom Taylor - May 3, 2018

Last week, reports surfaced suggesting that Nate Diaz was in talks with the UFC about a potential return to the cage at UFC 227 this August 4 in Los Angeles. These reports generated widespread excitement inside the MMA bubble. Unfortunately, UFC President Dana White has now poked holes in them, assuring that the UFC offers Diaz a fight every few months, and that there’s nothing in motion with respect to his fighting at UFC 227.

Tom Taylor - May 1, 2018

Nate Diaz‘s return to the Octagon is one of the most talked about topics in MMA. That said, discussion about the fan favorite’s return have always been mired in the realm of the hypothetical, as he and the UFC can never seem to agree on the pertinent details of his comeback. From the sounds of it, that could change this summer. According to a report from ESPN’s Brett Okamoto, Diaz and the UFC have recently been in communication surrounding a potential return to action at UFC 227, which is targeted for August 4th in Los Angeles, California. According to Okamoto’s report, the two parties discussed this date as recently as last week.