Firas Zahabi twittrar om att Nate Diaz ville möta Georges St-Pierre

Diaz förklarar att ingen i lättviktsdivisionen ville möta honom och därför var han villig att gå upp en viktklass. Diaz berättar också att Dana White hade bett honom hålla sig i form, då någonting kunde komma upp och sen blev Diaz erbjuden att gå match mot McGregor.

“I had just told Dana White, ‘I’m going to 170 lbs,’” sa Diaz. “I’m not fighting these guys. Pettis, dos Anjos, Alvarez and all those guys, all these scary-ass guys don’t want to fight me. So, what the hell am I going to do, sit around the division and wait for a fight? So, it’s all good, I’m going to go up to 170 then, start eating. I texted that [to] Dana. We were talking the day before they called me [to offer the McGregor fight].

“I said, ‘I’m trying to get the GSP fight,’ because I heard he’s coming back. He said, ‘Oh, I think he wants to fight Lawler.’ And then he called me the next day [saying] ‘I told you to stay in shape, I told you to stay in shape and keep your weight down because something might come up.’ I was like, ‘What’s up?’ He told me that McGregor wanted to fight so I said, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’

“He said, ‘You just told me you were 200 pounds,’” sa Diaz . “And, I said, ‘I lied. So, let’s get this 155 thing going and get it cracking.’ He was like, ‘Alright, don’t say shit, we’re going to make it happen.’ I was like, ‘alright.’ I didn’t call like all them other fighters and beg for a fight. McGregor was asking for me, they were asking for me. There’s no other way, There’s no McGregor show. It’s the fight that needed to happen.”

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