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Nate Diaz blasts doctor, Dana White for UFC 244 stoppage – ‘you sneeze on me I bleed’

  • The Stockton fighter says ‘blood don’t hurt, it’s just there’
  • Diaz rails against UFC boss for supporting doctor’s call – ‘how many fights you been in Dana?’

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A doctor checks Nate Diaz before the fourth round against Jorge Masvidal at UFC 244. Photo: AP
Nicolas Atkin

Nate Diaz turned his ire on UFC president Dana White and the cageside doctor at Madison Square Garden after his fight with Jorge Masvidal was called off before the start of the fourth round.

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The doctor inspected a nasty cut above Diaz’s right eye, suffered in the first round after a kick from Masvidal. He deemed that Diaz should not be allowed to continue, with the capacity crowd voicing their displeasure and chanting “b*******”.

“I feel like I had a nonstop fight camp. I could’ve used a little more time,” Diaz said at the post-event press conference. “My eye was already s*** from my last fight [against Anthony Pettis in August].

“Anyway, you sneeze on me I bleed. Blood don’t hurt. it’s just there. Just so you know.”

Diaz said he received around seven stitches, but said “I have the unlimited record for stitches”.

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“Every fight I’m cut, because he’s repeating on it. Same eye. They were gonna throw me right back in immediately also. I’m going in under the most f***** up circumstances, a little more time would’ve been nice.

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