{"id":265449,"date":"2017-12-11T07:24:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T15:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=265449"},"modified":"2017-12-11T07:24:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T15:24:03","slug":"nac-executive-director-discusses-possible-boxing-license-for-nate-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nate-diaz\/nac-executive-director-discusses-possible-boxing-license-for-nate-diaz\/","title":{"rendered":"NAC Executive Director discusses possible boxing license for Nate Diaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, fan favorite UFC lightweight <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/nate-diaz\/\">Nate Diaz<\/a> took to Twitter to claim that the UFC had offered him a title shot in &#8220;any weight class,&#8221; but that he was interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nate-diaz\/breaking-nate-diaz-moving-ufc\/\">testing his skills in the boxing ring instead.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ufc offered me title fight in any weight class Im kool though I&#8217;ll givem a shot when they do something good<br \/>\nOn to the next sport for now &#x1f94a;&#x1f94a;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nathan Diaz (@NateDiaz209) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NateDiaz209\/status\/939319334681243649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UFC offered me title fight in any weight class,&#8221; Diaz said in his Tweet. &#8220;I\u2019m kool though, I\u2019ll givem a shot when they do something good. On to the next sport for now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whether the UFC would allow Diaz to break from his contract and compete in the boxing ring, of course, is difficult to say. If the promotion were to let him go, however, it seems he&#8217;d have no difficulty acquiring a boxing license from the Nevada Athletic Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/ufc\/890844\/Nate-Diaz-Boxing-License-Application-Nevada-Athletic-Commission-UFC-News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Express Sport<\/a>, NAC executive director Bob Bennett said he doesn&#8217;t believe Diaz has applied for a boxing license just yet, but that he probably wouldn&#8217;t have difficulty getting one if he did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s requested a boxing licence, to date,\u201d Bennett explained (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/themaclife.com\/featured-posts\/nevada-athletic-commission-happy-grant-nate-diaz-boxing-licence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mac Life<\/a>). \u201cBut from what I know of Nate and who he spars with, I believe he may have been a sparring partner at some point in time with Andre Ward, he and Nick [Diaz].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if he applied, I would see no reason why we wouldn\u2019t license him.\u00a0We would be happy to licence him and we hope that he can fight in our state as well, \u2018The Fight Capital of the World.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nate Diaz has not competed since an August 2016 loss to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\/\">Conor McGrego<\/a>r, who is also tied to the boxing world. Where do you think the fan favorite lightweight will fight next?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 11\/12\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, fan favorite UFC lightweight Nate Diaz took to Twitter to claim that the UFC had offered him a title shot in &#8220;any weight class,&#8221; but that he was interested in testing his skills in the boxing ring instead. Ufc offered me title fight in any weight class Im kool though I&#8217;ll givem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":212933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10123],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NAC Executive Director discusses possible boxing license for Nate Diaz | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nevada Athletic Commissioner Bob Bennett chimes in on whether Nate Diaz will be granted a boxing license if he applies for one.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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