LAS VEGAS -- An ordinary fight night turned into bedlam in the minutes before Saturday's WSOF 22 main event, as a brawl erupted cageside at The Axis in Planet Hollywood between UFC lightweights Nate Diaz and Khabib Nurmagomedov and their respective entourages.
"Nate went to Khabib and they just got talking," World Series of Fighting vice president Ali Abdel-Aziz told MMAFighting.com. "They exchanged words and Nate threw a punch. I saw Nate throw a punch."
The melee spilled into the stands until Nurmagomedov and Diaz were forcibly separated. Diaz was then escorted out of the area, but the furor resumed several minutes later, this time with Diaz's older brother Nick throwing himself into the fray.