Conor McGregor is widely considered to the king of trash talk, but the relatively unheralded Nate Diaz gave better than he got at Thursday’s UFC 196 press conference.
Diaz is after all the man who introduced ‘Virgin Nose’ into the MMA vernacular, in dismissing CM Punk.
Now, Diaz had his 209 way with the Movement Training techniques that are entering MMA since McGregor began training with guru Ido Portal.
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Who do you train with? You’ve got that little goofy motherf***er with you. I have real training partners, said Diaz, as transcribed by Tristen Critchfield for Sherdog.
Top 10 fighters, Top 10 boxers, Top 10 jiu-jitsu guys, Top 10 kickboxers. You’re playing touch butt with that dork in the park with the pony tail. And I’m the one who don’t got no training partners? I don’t think so. You’ve got it all figured out when you’re fighting midgets. You’ve got s***.
My whole team will f***ing beat your whole team’s ass. How about that? The JV squad on my team will beat your team’s ass.
I’m just saying I train with top guys. I train with Kron Gracie, world champion, best jiu-jitsu guy there is. I train with Nick and Jake and [Gilbert Melendez], Top 10 MMA fighters. Joe Schilling, Top 10 kickboxing. Just all around top 10 guys.
All I see is this guy in the park with the goofball with the pony tail….I’ll have one of my littlest dudes slap the s*** out of that guy. What the f***? That’s my opinion on the whole training issue. He ain’t got nobody.
The “dork” Diaz refers to is Movement coach Ido Portal, who took exception to the remarks, via Facebook.
So I still didn’t get it,” wrote Portal. “Nate Diaz, first it’s you who were doing some movement training already back in the day but then it’s a s****y approach to take? Which one is it?! Well, Mr. Diaz is under a lot of pressure. I understand mistakes can happen. Seriously, next time I’ll jump on stage with my pool noodle and smack some heads around.
Mr. Portal is not quitting his day job to enter the MMA trash talk field. Each reader can decide whether “touch butt with a dork” is a reasonable description for Ido Portal’s training.
