After back-to-back fights with Conor McGregor in 2016, Nate Diaz remained in the sidelines. And according to him, it’s because the UFC pushed him towards that direction.
“It was just—I felt like I won my last fight,” Diaz told ESPN’s Brett Okamoto (transcript via MMA Fighting) “I’m not gonna cry over spilt milk, it’s just what it is, especially in this UFC game because I’ve lost a lot of fights that I didn’t lose and even if, let’s just say more so than I think like, I for sure didn’t lose that fight.
“They treated it like, ‘You lost, go down the list.