Advertisement

UFC: Jorge Masvidal rips Nate Diaz for comments after fight – ‘they don’t sit well with me’

  • ‘Calling me a quitter … that’s a hard sell,’ Masvidal says – ‘I’ve got nothing nice to say about him’
  • ‘Tell me how long you need for your knee to be right so you can run 38 miles every day’

Reading Time:2 minutes
Why you can trust SCMP
Jorge Masvidal kicks Nate Diaz during the first round at UFC 244. Photo: AP

Considering it was for the title of “baddest {expletive} in the game”, the build-up to Nate Diaz vs Jorge Masvidal at UFC 244 was surprisingly good natured.

Advertisement

But things could be a little spicier if Diaz gets a rematch for Masvidal’s “BMF” belt.

“Gamebred” ripped into Diaz, saying some of his comments since their Madison Square Garden main event “don’t sit well” with him.

“He knows what he’s doing, he’s trying to bait me in for a rematch,” Masvidal told FanSided’s Mark Carman. “There’s no need for him to say it, because it doesn’t matter who I fight next – when he gets his face reconstruction and he gets whatever he needs done, and he agrees on the next pay cheque, we’re gonna do it again.”

Masvidal won on a medical stoppage after the cage-side doctor ruled that Diaz could not continue for the fourth round, because of two bad cuts around his eye.

Advertisement

Diaz claimed he was about to come into his own in the fourth and fifth rounds, as is his style, and that he sensed Masvidal was gassing out and thinking about quitting.

Advertisement