Nate Diaz appeared recently on the Ariel Helwani Show, and was asked about a recent message he posted on his social network, “The last of real martial arts in the game.” Nate explained what he meant, as only he can.

People always talk s***, they’d be like, ‘Nate’s not winning this thing, he’s a .500 fighter, he’s a journeyman.’ They say s*** like that about me. I’m like, ‘You guys are haters.’ For one, I was here before all of you even got here. I was here first. You guys all grew up on me. Straight up.

For two, all this time, and all my records that you guys talk about, that I have a s*** record. Guess what? You guys all got finished on your face. Choked out, knocked out, f***ed up all over the place. I’ll take a hundred of my losses before I take one of those losses. Straight up. So that’s what I mean when I talk about real martial artists.

How come these guys are all getting finished? It’s a part of war. The main objective in war is ‘go out there and come back home.’ And these guys all get finished off and it f***ing irritates me too. Conor McGregor just got finished, right?

It’s a big fight, it’s a huge thing, he’s the best, he’s gonna get a rematch, he’s the f***ing GOAT and all this funny s***. Well, you just got finished off.

When you get finished off like that, that doesn’t drop you down in the ranking system. It’s a control issue, too. That doesn’t drop you down two spots in the rankings. You got choked out. You got knocked out. You just lost 15 spots.

And then they still try to talk about me and my s*** record, I’m like, ‘Ain’t no one finished me off. I’m still gonna be here until the end of time.’ I’m telling you, I’m hard to kill. Not like the rest of these guys.

UG, who do you want to see Diaz fight next?

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