Nate Diaz guarantees he’s not searching for bother but when anyone begins some static with him, they may need to duck and canopy as a result of a bottle of water may come zooming at them earlier than later.
There are various movies on the market displaying Diaz launching a bottle of water at anyone — most famously in a melee with Conor McGregor forward of their rematch again in 2016. As he was leaving the press convention with McGregor shouting at him, Diaz tossed a bottle of water at the Irish superstar and that led to extra bottles and even full cans of power drinks being launched throughout the room.
Diaz additionally obtained right into a water bottle tossing incident with members of Islam Makhachev’s group backstage this previous December forward of a UFC press convention in Las Vegas. However Diaz says he’s not often the aggressor as a result of these altercations normally begin with anyone speaking smack to him after which he’ll reply with a bottle of water.
“I used to be watching the previous press convention with Jake Paul [and he said] ‘he’s at all times choking anyone or throwing a bottle at them.’ I’m a counter fighter, motherf*cker,” Diaz stated on the HJR podcast. “If you happen to’re f*cking with me like ‘f*ck you bitch’ and I’m standing there with a bottle, [I’ll throw it] like shut up, bitch. This ain’t going to harm you.”
In line with Diaz, the bottle of water is at all times his first line of protection as a result of there’s not often a time when he doesn’t have one close by. With such easy accessibility, Diaz finds the bottle of water as the best technique to get anyone’s consideration.
“Let me inform you one thing, you see how I’ve obtained this bottle [of water]? I keep hydrated,” Diaz stated. “I at all times have water on me, irrespective of the place I’m at. You need to see subsequent to my mattress in my room, I’ve obtained f*cking 15 waters from each night time. Then somebody begins popping off, [I throw the bottle] like shut up, bitch.”
Diaz claimed as a rule, the bottle of water getting thrown is normally in response to anyone shouting insults at him from a distance.
The one-time UFC title challenger says chucking a bottle of water at them is a straightforward technique to discover out if they really need to begin some bother with him or in the event that they’re all discuss.
“Now I tagged you, balls in your courtroom,” Diaz stated. “What are you going to do about it? And that [bottle of water] ain’t going to harm no person.”
In fact, Diaz’s willingness to combine it up with anyone at any time has come again to chew him within the checking account.
He revealed throughout the identical interview that an altercation with a Logan Paul lookalike — later recognized as Rodney Peterson — value him a hefty sum of cash after he faced a lawsuit over the incident. Whereas Diaz was cleared of all prison expenses, Peterson nonetheless sued him after video confirmed the veteran UFC fighter choking him out throughout an incident in New Orleans.
Diaz says he in the end settled the lawsuit and paid Peterson fairly than persevering with the battle in courtroom, which might have value him much more cash.
“He did sue me,” Diaz stated. “I used to be successful but it surely was going to simply go perpetually and I used to be going to pay extra in lawyer charges. So I simply ended up paying him $18,000 as a result of my lawyer payments have been as much as $17,000. So it value me like $30,000. I get sued by all people. I assure you I obtained the file.”
