Nate Diaz explains walkout

Conor McGregor is the best talker in the game, with an extraordinary ability to get under another fighter’s skin.

And Nate Diaz is better.

In their first fight, Conor barked his very best, but what do you remember?

“Dorks playing touch butt in the park,” and “I’m not surprised, motherf@$%er.”

Nate appeared to have his way with McGregor at the UFC 202 press conference on Wednesday, by leaving. McGregor showed up 30 minutes late, and Diaz decided he had said his piece, and it was high time to go, so he did.

An apparently flustered McGregor ended up hurling both invective and energy drinks at the departing 209 crew, reportedly hitting a boy in the process.

Afterwards, Diaz spoke with UFC Tonight, and offered his side of the issue.

“Like I said, that guy, he walked in like he was the show,” said Diaz, as transcribed by Anton Tabuena for BE. “But when I left the show, the show was over. So who’s the show?”

“I’m too real for this whole game, and they can’t have a guy like me winning because look at what’s happening. I get paid finally, I’ve been stuck in contracts for years, and they sell the UFC. It’s changing baby, and it’s because of what’s going on here. And if people don’t recognize that, they’re tripping.”

“And the same thing, that’s why they threw me right back in there, they want to weed me out and get me out of here before it gets too big. But it’s already an unstoppable force that’s growing at a high pace, so the game is in trouble with someone like me winning. So that’s why. They know, me and they know, that they hope I don’t win.”

“It’s all good either way though because, it’s kill or be killed. Regardless, win or lose, which I plan on winning, my voice is still going to be heard. My mic got too big to not be heard.”

Nate Diaz fights Conor McGregor in the main event of UFC 202 on Saturday night.