{"id":266397,"date":"2017-12-22T13:02:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=266397"},"modified":"2017-12-22T13:02:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T21:02:20","slug":"gokhan-saki-tries-get-nate-diaz-come-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/gokhan-saki\/gokhan-saki-tries-get-nate-diaz-come-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Gokhan Saki Tries to Get Nate Diaz to Come Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Nate Diaz spit flames on his longest interview since May, the world once again was talking about the Stockton soldier. For over 45 minutes, he talked about everything from Conor McGregor, the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nate-diaz\/video-nate-diaz-exposes-ufcs-propaganda-machine-contract-prison\/\">UFC&#8217;s &#8216;propaganda machine&#8217;<\/a>, and what it would take to get him back in the Octagon. People have jumped on <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nate-diaz\/video-nate-diaz-says-hell-fight-whenever-f-ck-wants\/\">his quote of &#8216;ask nicely&#8217;<\/a> with a Sage Northcutt <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nate-diaz\/meme-of-sage-northcutt-calling-out-nate-diaz-has-both-fighters-and-urijah-faber-cracking-up\/\">meme that had Team Alpha Male laughing<\/a>, now kickboxing vet turned UFC fighter Gokhan Saki has joined the campaign to get Diaz to return to MMA.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dear Diaz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NateDiaz209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NateDiaz209<\/a> ,<\/p>\n<p>We would really love to see you fight again brother. Could you please come back.<\/p>\n<p>Kind regards,<\/p>\n<p>The Rebel.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gokhan Saki (@gokhantherebel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gokhantherebel\/status\/943989151799508992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><span>\u00a0&#8220;<\/span>I will fight when I am approached respectively. \u2018Will you please fight,\u2019 because things change and you don\u2019t need to fight. I\u2019ve already been fighting too long I\u2019m like man, I don\u2019t need to fight nobody. I\u2019ll fight anybody but I don\u2019t need to fight anybody. You know? And the fighters are like, \u2018He\u2019s not a fighter.\u2019 I\u2019m like, it sounds like you\u2019re being manipulated into trying to manipulate me into getting into a fight. I\u2019m like, guess what? You work for somebody, I work for me. Who\u2019s the fighter now, motherf-cker? [\u2026]\u00a0Ask nicely, motherf-ckers. Ask nicely. I\u2019m talking about the organization, the fighters. And make it a big deal, because I\u2019m not trying to just sign a contract just cause it\u2019s a good idea for you guys.\u201d<\/em><span>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/OkWeRdZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nate Diaz speaking on the Outside the Box podcast<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It looks like former K-1 Grand Prix and GLORY light heavyweight champion is a Nate Diaz fan and took his request to be polite to heart. Diaz did tease that he had some plans this year and he&#8217;d be keeping an eye on the fights, but at this point, him coming back is just as likely as Conor McGregor. Both are in serious leverage positions and don&#8217;t need to fight if they don&#8217;t have to. However, it&#8217;s still nice for Saki to try and for that, we thank him.<\/p>\n<p><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 12\/22\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Nate Diaz spit flames on his longest interview since May, the world once again was talking about the Stockton soldier. For over 45 minutes, he talked about everything from Conor McGregor, the UFC&#8217;s &#8216;propaganda machine&#8217;, and what it would take to get him back in the Octagon. 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