Well, that and the fact that it never gives any inches.ĭiaz stuck to his own piece of truth: He has a longer UFC tenure than McGregor (which is true, with Diaz's 21 fights to McGregor's seven). So that's what makes Diaz's smack talk stand out in a way. No, they'll never win a Nobel Prize, but the best thing about the Diaz brothers' trash talk is that they're not trying too hard. You're a credit to the community."ĭiaz, a noted man of the people and dedicated athlete all year around, probably took some of that as a compliment.Įither way, he was prepared in that markedly unprepared way of the Diaz brothers. "He makes gun signs with the right hand and animal balloons with the left hand. "He's like a little cholo gangsta from the hood, and at the same time he coaches kids' jiu-jitsu on a Sunday morning and goes on bike rides with the elderly," McGregor said. There's a reason why the UFC's YouTube stream of the conference had well over 100,000 viewers at this point.
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You can step on the scales at 170 and that's it, we're going to go and fight, and that's it. Then, he came back, 'He could only make 165.' So then I told him to get comfortable. The first discussion was the money issue. "Even Nate tried to exit the fight," McGregor said. It began with the featherweight champ hurling epithets at Rafael dos Anjos-whose injury withdrawal from his lightweight title defense against McGregor led to this March 5 welterweight bout, which Diaz took on less than two weeks' notice-and others who were potential replacements but didn't ultimately sign the contract.īut soon enough he laid into Diaz, saying it was also a struggle to entice Diaz into the bout. They both did it with a heaping dose of great trash talk's core ingredient: plain, old candor. He didn't grab Diaz's microphone and throw it into the crowd or anything like that.īut after he swaggered to the podium more than half an hour late for the big media to-do, he touched his sparking cable of internal energy to his wit and braggadocio and let the voltage fly for all current and potential opponents, the UFC and anyone else who wanted some.īut Diaz, in his way, was equal to the challenge -maybe more so than any of McGregor's other opponents in this position in the UFC to date. He didn't do anything outlandish at the UFC Gym in Torrance, California.
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Sonnen or Ronda Rousey or whoever previously wore it in your household, and place it atop the sandy brow of McGregor. Let's go ahead and take the MMA trash talk crown away from Uncle Chael P. Conor McGregor was a surgical scalpel, Nate Diaz was a railroad tie and Wednesday's news conference to formally announce and promote their fight at UFC 196 was one for the books.īefore we discuss any further, let's take this opportunity to handle a small piece of business.