Nate Diaz denies he is "ducking" Jake Paul cage fight and sets out his terms

11 September 2023 , 13:09

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Nate Diaz denies he is "ducking" Jake Paul cage fight and sets out his terms

Nate Diaz has refuted Jake Paul's claim he is avoiding their cage fight by laying out his own terms for the rematch.

UFC legend Diaz was beaten in his boxing debut against Paul when the pair met over 10 rounds in Texas last month. The fight was relatively one-sided as Diaz bounced back after suffering a knockdown in the fifth round to finish strong in the later rounds, but it wasn't enough as Paul won a unanimous decision.

Paul claimed Diaz had agreed to his $10million rematch offer that would see the pair fight in the PFL, who Paul signed with at the beginning of the year. Diaz mocked Paul by tweeting a picture of him getting choked in their fight with the caption: "Here’s your MMA fight b**** you're easy af [as f***] we can box or fight MMA at ⁦Real Fight Inc, no problem f*** PFL and f*** you p****."

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Paul fired back by responding: "I just made ur little half-a** promotion. I just taught you & your half-a** team how to run a major event. You're just trying to latch on. We offered you $10m to fight me in PFL plus pay-per-view, but you don’t want it because you're scared to lose. I dog walked you b**** so go back to your daddy Dana’s cage and let him tell you what to do. You are used to being owned Nathan."

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Diaz has kept the door open for a UFC return after fighting out of his contract last year with Dana White insisting the promotion will always be his home. The fan favourite, who has only fought three times in the last four years, continued to poke fun at Paul by tweeting to him: “What would you have done in a real fight? Jumped on me and get f***ed up b****. You don’t know wassup in a real warzone. You lost in boxing match anyway p***y. Fight yourself lame a**.”

Paul thinks Diaz is reluctant to accept a rematch in MMA because it would diminish the "legendary" status that fans have of him. “He’s not the bada** that everyone said he was. I wanted to do something that no boxer has ever done, which is go over to MMA but Nate ducked the offer. He accepted it in the ring and behind the scenes we tried to make it happen, but to no avail," he told TMZ.

“With those guys I don’t even know if they have a reason. I don’t know if they think, there wasn’t really a transparent reason. I think he realised there is a lot of risk for him, I just dog walked him in the boxing ring and made it look easy. It takes his legendary status, so I think he realised the risk wasn’t good enough for $10million."

Harry Davies