CLEVELAND OHIO: Nate Diaz is becoming more and more eager as the day of his professional boxing debut approaches. A middleweight bout between Jake Paul and one of MMA's most well-known competitors will take place on August 5 in Dallas, Texas. Paul, who is 6 feet 1 inches tall, has won four prior boxing contests against MMA competitors.
Paul expressed his wish to fight several MMA stars, and Nate Diaz accepted the challenge this year. After reportedly getting trash-talked before the bout was signed, the 26-year-old Problem Child recently expressed his disgust with Diaz's "boring" and atypical pre-fight hype of the match.
'I’m gonna whoop your a** for real'
In May, when the two had their first pre-fight conference, Nate Diaz noted that he did not see any need to be hostile with the match so far away. However, now that the bout is only weeks away, Diaz is finally revealing his excitement for the match as he tries to take down the Paul brother verbally before he does so in the ring.
During Bradley Martyn’s Raw Talk, Diaz said, “This guy thinks he’ll actually beat everybody’s f**king a** and he’s louder than all you fools who are really beating people’s a**es. So now I have to step the f**k out to box real quick and whip this motherf**ker’s a** so we’ll know who’s the real ass whipper.” He continued to say, “Understand what I’m saying. People saying, ‘Oh, it’s a mismatch’ and this and that. Well, then you f**king fight him, motherf**ker. Make sure the best fights are happening because that’s what I’m here to see when I’m watching fighting. And this fools poppin’ off in interviews: ‘We’re real fighters.’ Prove it motherf**ker. I’mma go beat his a** for talkin’ s**t.”
He also added, “And then he was talking s**t to Conor [McGregor] and dissing his wife, and s**t. On some real disrespectful stuff that he shouldn’t be saying. And nobody’s saying s**t. I’m the one that said, shut the f**t up, b***h. I’m gonna whoop your a** for real.”
Notably, both the boxers have been taking a jab at each other for the last few weeks. This started with a change in the number of rounds for the bout, which was initially set for 8 but was then made 10.
‘Everything changes with every fight’
Despite entering the boxing ring at the age of 38, Diaz doesn't want to remain in the sport as long as some of his fellow MMA veterans have in recent months. Diaz's final match in the UFC took place in September of last year when he beat Tony Ferguson with a guillotine choke in the fourth round. Although Ferguson was the last fight on his contract, Diaz wants to be clear that it wasn't his plan for that fight to be his last in the UFC or in MMA in general.
"I’m gonna get this fight done with and then everything changes with every fight. People don’t understand that. Everything changes with every fight. Like the fight show last week and every fight show that happens changes the whole f**king bracket," he said. "If they’ll have me, I would love to go back to the UFC. I got love for Dana [White] either way, I don’t care what he says. It’s all business. I just want to do my thing and get back to what I do. Fight for real," Diaz added.
