Nate Diaz takes aim at Mike Tyson extolling Conor McGregor’s losing effort against Floyd Mayweather
If there's anyone who has the courage to question Mike Tyson, it's Nate Diaz. The Stockton scrapper never minces his words when it comes to letting people know what he thinks.
In a past episode of his Hotboxin' podcast, the former boxing heavyweight champion praised Conor McGregor for going 10 rounds with Floyd Mayweather. Diaz didn't take too kindly to Tyson's admiration of the Irish superstar.
Nate Diaz uploaded a clip of Tyson praising Conor McGregor with the following captions superimposed over it:
"I took him [Conor McGregor] all the way out in about eight minutes right before that. What does that tell you? Finished. Dead."
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Here's what Mike Tyson said that got Nate Diaz all riled up:
"[Conor McGregor] never really had a boxing match in his life, right? He didn't have a boxing match [before Floyd Mayweather] right? He went 10 rounds with the greatest fighter in the last 100 years of boxing. He went 10 rounds, scored punches on the greatest fighter in the last 100 years. People just want to see the black guy beat the white guy, they just want to see [that stuff]. But look what he had to fight against. And look what he did when he fought against it."
When Nate Diaz took Conor McGregor "all the way out in about eight minutes"
Conor McGregor seemed invincible following his takeover of the featherweight division back in 2015. While the bout didn't materialize for the lightweight title against then-champion Rafael dos Anjos, McGregor chose to fight Nate Diaz instead. Diaz managed to lure 'The Notorious' into a fight following a profanity-laced rant and call-out of the Irish superstar at UFC on FOX 17.
Diaz was the man to blot Conor McGregor's perfect record in the UFC. McGregor chose to fight him at 170 pounds instead of 155 pounds. Just two weeks out from the fight, it seemed like McGregor would do to Diaz what he had done to all the fighters he fought at featherweight.
Watch the UFC 196 press conference:
At the UFC 196 press conference, the Stockton native was unfazed by the Irishman's verbal onslaught. It seemed like McGregor failed to get inside Diaz's head like he had done to his previous opponents.
On fight night, McGregor tried to take Diaz out early in the first round. What he didn't account for was muscle fatigue as a result of putting on too much weight within a short period of time. In Round 2 of their bout, a visibly gassed McGregor was hit with a clean one-two combination by Diaz, which forced the Irishman to shoot for a takedown.
Diaz proceeded to stuff the takedown and mount McGregor, before taking his back and sinking in a rear-naked choke. The win against McGregor was the highlight of Nate Diaz's career, which launched him into superstardom.
Watch UFC 196: McGregor vs. Diaz 1: