Nate
Diaz isn’t a fan of artificial beef in combat sports. | Noah Red &
Alexis Contreras
Sean
Strickland and Khamzat
Chimaev have raised questions about fake rivalry.
Strickland dethroned Chimaev via split decision to win the
middleweight title at UFC 328
last weekend. While there appeared to be serious bad blood between
the two leading up to the fight, it didn’t reflect in the bout.
Strickland and Chimaev also quashed their beef after the fight,
hugging it out inside the Octagon. Strickland further admitted to
crossing boundaries with his trash talk to sell the fight and
apologized to Chimaev for the same.
Nate
Diaz isn’t impressed by how things played out between
Strickland and Chimaev. Diaz (21-13) is set to return to MMA
against Mike Perry
(14-8) at
Most Valuable Promotions „Rousey vs. Carano“ on May 16 at the
Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California. While Diaz admits that he
is not best friends with Perry, he refuses to build up a fake
rivalry to sell the fight.
Fake F—king Puppets
“They were faking the funk,” Diaz said in a face-to-face with Perry hosted by
Most Valuable Promotions. “And they were f—ing acting like crazy
and talking all this s–t to each other, and hugging and showing up
the whole fight like some bitch. Fake f—ing puppets. I’m f—ing
cool off that s–t. I gotta fight with this dude. He’s the most
violent mothererf—er… We’re not friends or anything like that but
I’m not gonna f—ing play around and make no f–ing artificial
beef with you. I think you’re great, I think what you’re doing is
great. I think you’re violent and mean. I came here to fight, train
hard, win, and f–k your s–t up just like I know you’re planning
on f—ing my s–t up.”