Former Bellator and UFC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez has called out free agent Nate Diaz; in hopes of settling an altercation eight years ago.
Earlier this year, Alvarez signed a deal with BKFC and was announced to be fighting Chad Mendes on April 29th.
On the other hand, Nate Diaz is currently a free agent after leaving the UFC last year. Along with Francis Ngannou, Diaz is among the fighters every promotion wants to get their hands on. Who can blame them?
Speaking to MMA Junkie, ‘The Underground King’ made his intentions to reignite the long-standing beef with Diaz very clear.
“I almost fought Nate in Mexico when I was fighting Gilbert Melendez,” Alvarez said. “I confronted him in Mexico City about grilling me and doing some weird little kid bulls—t and we got into it then UFC broke it all up. We never got to hash that out, and I beat up his teammate so I thought after I beat Melendez that maybe that would warrant a fight against him, but still, he never fought me. So, I think this is the right stage, the right opportunity to get this done. He’s a free agent, I’m over here and I’d love to fight someone like him after this.” [MMA Junkie]
Eddie Alvarez Calls Out Diaz
“We’re in the same weight class, we’ve asked for him a number of times during my MMA career, during my UFC career. It never came to fruition,” Alvarez said of Diaz. “Timing, title shots, you name it, wrong opponents. Nate Diaz is the only guy I’d want that I’d say, ‘Hey, can we sign this guy and bring him over here?’ That’s the only one.
“I just think he’s the right fighter,” he continued. “[I] think he’d transition well over to here with that real ‘gangster’ style or whatever he wants to be. I think it’ll do good here and I think that’s the only opponent that I would only want to fight. I don’t really have a desire to fight anyone besides him.”
Quotes via MMA Mania
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