Nate Diaz is as soon as once more teasing a long-awaited trilogy bout with Irish megastar Conor McGregor.
It’s been greater than seven years since Diaz and McGregor lit up the Octagon with the second in a pair of entertaining clashes that produced two of the highest-grossing pay-per-views within the UFC’s 30+ 12 months historical past. Since then, combat followers have been clamoring for a rubber match between the 2, however to date, the promotion has failed to tug the set off.
All hope gave the impression to be misplaced when the ‘Stockton Samurai’ walked away from the corporate he referred to as residence for 15 years to check out his expertise within the squared circle. Nevertheless, that has not stopped Diaz from calling out the previous two-division titleholder every so often in hopes of manufacturing a profitable third assembly between the 2.
Taking to social media, Diaz is as soon as once more taking pictures his shot by sharing a picture from one of many duo’s encounters within the Octagon. “Actual battle,” he wrote within the caption on X.
Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz first met in a welterweight bout at UFC 196 in March 2016. The TUF alumnus scored a second-round submission, handing the Irishman his first loss contained in the Octagon. The pair have been initially scheduled to run it again at UFC 200, however the bout was pulled after McGregor failed to meet media obligations associated to the combat.
The sequel was pushed again to UFC 202 the place McGregor evened the collection with a victory by way of majority determination (48-47, 47-47, and 48-47).
Conor McGregor has One win in final seven years
Three months later, McGregor went on to seize the light-weight title with a second-round KO of Eddie Alvarez to turn into a simultaneous two-division champion. It’s been just about all downhill for McGregor so far as wins and losses go ever since. He cashed in on a co-promoted boxing match with Floyd ‘Cash’ Mayweather in 2017, shedding within the tenth spherical by way of TKO. He has earned only one victory within the UFC during the last seven years, that coming in opposition to a past-his-prime ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone in 2020.
His final Octagon look got here almost 4 years in the past when he suffered a damaged leg through the opening spherical of a trilogy combat with Dustin Poirier and UFC 264.
On New 12 months’s Day, McGregor introduced that he would make his return on June 29 for a middleweight conflict with former Bellator MMA champion ‘Iron’ Michael Chandler, although the UFC has not made the announcement official.
