En match mellan Matt Brown (19-13) och Nate Diaz (17-10) har bokats, men enligt Diaz så hade han inte ens fått förhandla om matchen och känner sig nästan tvingad in i en fight.
Diaz tycker att det är en bra fight, men en fight som han nästan känner sig tvingad till. Diaz tycker också att denna match är värdig att vara huvudmatch på en gala.
Diaz menar att han inte hann förhandla någonting om matchen innan han fick höra om den och det tycker inte han är rätt.
”The Brown fight was talked about and they were supposed to work out a deal to figure it all out and negotiate the fight. Then all of a sudden, it’s, I never necessarily okay’d the fight. The fight was never negotiated, so … then all of a sudden I was getting blown up about the fight. I think it’s a great fight, everybody would want to see that fight. That sounds like an awesome fight, a fight to see. But, it was never talked about. And I don’t appreciate being, it’s like I’m being forced into a fight. The fight was never negotiated, I heard about it just like everybody else. It was kind of blown out of proportion. But, I like the fight, it sounds good it sounds great. I don’t like the circumstances of the fight. I think I deserve better and he deserves better than to be on the undercard and to be on this, to be a great contribution to Mr. Conor McGregor’s pockets. They are talking about him blowing up all the records of being the highest pay-per-view draw and the highest watched fighter. They put me and Matt Brown on the undercard and Robbie Lawler on the undercard. I think Robbie Lawler should speak up a little bit about that, too. But, I know how it is, it probably worked out good for him, too. I think it’s going to be a great card and I think if I am going to fight a great fight where a lot of people are going to tune in to watch me fight Matt Brown, who is a great fighter too, I think it should be more toward my end of the deal and not everybody else’s.”
”I’m okay with being on the undercard or whatever, but this is definitely a main event fight, especially with the recent fight cards going on, it’s ridiculous. They are making this humongous card and I ain’t got nothing against the main event, that’s great for them, but it’s the circumstances I am talking about. No one ever negotiated, no one ever told me what, where, when and how. I just heard maybe Matt Brown, maybe Anthony Pettis. Anthony said something about fighting me, I’ve been talking about fighting him for a long time. I don’t care who, Matt Brown is a good fight and Pettis is a good fight, those are the fights I am looking for, big and exciting fights. I’m not into fighting boring people. I just want to know what’s going on, I don’t like being strong-armed into a fight. I don’t need to hear that I’m fighting a guy before it’s been negotiated. So I say it’s not official and now I’m the guy pulling out of a fight. But, that’s not the situation at all. I just liked to be approached a bit better and make sure stuff is confirmed before it blows out of proportion.”
