{"id":270589,"date":"2018-02-20T07:23:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=270589"},"modified":"2018-02-20T07:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T15:23:57","slug":"no-longer-willing-bully-nate-diaz-kevin-lee-targets-two-top-lightweights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/kevin-lee\/no-longer-willing-bully-nate-diaz-kevin-lee-targets-two-top-lightweights\/","title":{"rendered":"No longer willing to &#8220;bully&#8221; Nate Diaz, Kevin Lee targets two other top lightweights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When fan favorite lightweight contender <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/nate-diaz\/\">Nate Diaz<\/a> announced his intention to return to the cage, recent interim lightweight title challenger Kevin Lee was <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nate-diaz\/top-ufc-lightweights-immediately-campain-fight-nate-diaz\/\">among the first fighters to call him out<\/a>. When this callout went unanswered, however, Lee formed the opinion that Diaz doesn&#8217;t actually want to fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how folks jumped on the Nate bandwagon so hard, folks just think he is such a fighter, but the man doesn\u2019t want to fight, that\u2019s the bottom line,\u201d Lee said on a recent episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/cagesidesubmissions\/2018\/02\/19\/cage-side-submissions-ep215-kevin-lee-glena-avila-kristina-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cage Side Submissions<\/a> (h\/t Nicole Bosco of <a href=\"https:\/\/fansided.com\/2018\/02\/19\/kevin-lee-fight-nate-diaz-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FanSided<\/a>). \u201cIf a man doesn\u2019t want to fight, I\u2019m not a bully. I\u2019m not going to keep berating\u00a0him and going at him. He is in and out of Vegas all the time, I see him in the store here a lot, me and him we will get into a little conversation here and there, but I\u2019m not going to berate a man that doesn\u2019t want to fight. If he doesn\u2019t want to fight ok, we won\u2019t worry about it. He doesn\u2019t want to fight, if he does he damn sure ain\u2019t going to fight someone like me, he\u2019s going to fight somebody like Eddie [Alvarez] who is on his way out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With a possible bout with Nate Diaz seemingly off the table, Lee now has his crosshairs on two other top lightweights.<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-content \">\u201cRight now I\u2019m looking at [Edson] Barboza, I think Barboza is a great fight, a really good matchup for me,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;He fought a lot of the guys who are at the top and I\u2019m gonna whoop his ass harder than Khabib [Nurmagomedov] did. I\u2019m also looking at somebody\u00a0like Eddie Alvarez who is up there without a fight, he\u2019s sitting on the sidelines, he\u2019s trying to avoid\u00a0me as much as he can. There\u2019s a couple of fights that I\u2019m looking at, that I\u2019m interested in. They are not all necessarily\u00a0above me, obviously, that were you want to look but really those rankings don\u2019t mean shit, and they don\u2019t mean shit to me.\u201dWho do you want to see Kevin Lee 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 2\/20\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When fan favorite lightweight contender Nate Diaz announced his intention to return to the cage, recent interim lightweight title challenger Kevin Lee was among the first fighters to call him out. 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