Not much been going on with UFC events lately, UFC FN 39 coming up this weekend I think? Big Nog V Roy Nelson as main event.
Roy Nelson (19-9) vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (34-8-1)
Clay Guida (30-14) vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri (33-7-2)
John Howard (22-8) vs. Ryan LaFlare (10-0)
Beneil Dariush (7-0) vs. Ramsey Nijem (8-4)
So... Here's some Nick and Nate Diaz news to keep this thread entertaining.
This might be of interest to you @
MadFlavour
http://www.mmafighting.com/2014/4/9...-never-loved-fighting-i-never-wanted-to-fight
On Wednesday, UFC president
Dana White said he offered
Nick Diaz a fight against Hector Lombard and was waiting to hear back from him.
"I tried to make Nick and Lombard," White
said. "Nick and I talked, and I haven't heard back from him, he went MIA."
"I never considered anything other than to renegotiate my contract or fight Johny Hendrix," he said. "All I said was, What am I getting paid? And he said, Let me check your contract. And the last text I got from him was what I would be fighting for. I didn't consider fighting for that kind of money. I didn't say anything back to him, right, but usually that means something. I'm not considering even for a second fighting any of those guys for less than $500,000. There's no way."
"The UFC wants me to fight. The people want me to fight. I don't want me to fight. So if we're going to need me to fight, we're going to have to work out the right deal."
http://www.mmafighting.com/2014/4/8...nce-about-issues-with-ufc-dana-white-responds
MMAFighting.com spoke to [Nate] Diaz Tuesday afternoon. Here's what he had to say about his current relationship with the UFC:
"I'm ready to fight but not for some funny money that they're trying to give me. They can let me go or they can let me fight, but let me do something. They know I need to make some money. I feel like they're just trying to keep me on the waiting list. I don't even want to communicate through anybody. If they want to figure out what's going on, we should talk. No one is contacting me. I'm just doing my thing. Training every day. I'm ready to fight tomorrow."
"The crazy thing to me is that in what other professional sport do the cheerleaders make more than the athletes? I'm sure
Arianny Celeste,
Brittney Palmer,
Joe Rogan, Bruce Buffer, probably you, everybody makes more money than I do. So I'm trying to make a move here. The way that the UFC makes me look, too, makes people I know believe that I'm some type of millionaire. I got a family to feed. I got my mom. She just got a brand new house and working two jobs still. I'm trying to break her off some money when I can but I'm going as broke as her.
"Then they called me to take the Khabib [Nurmagomedov] fight when it wasn't working out for them and Gil [Melendez]. They were trying to lowball Gil, too, and he was supposed to fight Khabib, but he said he couldn't take the fight for the money they were offering. So they call me the next day and ask me to fight Khabib. I said, I'll take the fight as long as I can renegotiate my contract. And then it was all downhill from there. Then they tweeted out that I turned down the fight, and I never turned down the fight. They tried to do me dirty."
"There's a lot more money that needs to be dished out because it's coming in, and I know it."