It’s been nearly eight years since Conor McGregor last stepped inside the Octagon with Nate Diaz.
Fighting one another in back-to-back bouts between March and August of 2016, McGregor and the ‘Stockton Samurai’ delivered two of the UFC’s top 10 highest-grossing pay-per-view headliners of all time, the first going down at UFC 196 inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Stepping in on just 11 days’ notice, Diaz handed the Irishman his first loss inside the Octagon, scoring a rear-naked choke submission in the second round.
Five months later, they would run it back at UFC 202 — this time going the distance with McGregor earning a victory via majority decision.