{"id":322976,"date":"2019-08-19T09:09:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T16:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=322976"},"modified":"2019-08-19T09:11:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T16:11:05","slug":"nate-diaz-says-he-and-jorge-masvidal-will-fight-for-unofficial-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/nate-diaz-says-he-and-jorge-masvidal-will-fight-for-unofficial-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate Diaz says he and Jorge Masvidal will fight for unofficial belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After defeating Anthony Pettis by unanimous decision at UFC 241, Nate Diaz set his sights on a fight with Jorge Masvidal. And Masvidal seems open to the matchup.<\/p>\n<p>While there will not be a UFC belt on the line in this prospective matchup, Diaz says he and Masvidal will be fighting for an intangible belt.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h4Zm4V\">\u201dI\u2019m just the best fighter in this whole game and they\u2019re giving belts to other people and making people work for belts,\u201d Diaz told UFC reporter Megan Olivi backstage shortly after he defeated Pettis (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/8\/18\/20810873\/nate-diaz-plans-on-defending-his-baddest-motherf-ker-belt-against-jorge-masvidal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Mania<\/a>). \u201cBut I\u2019m the champ and as far as I\u2019m concerned, [Masvidal] is too.<\/p>\n<p id=\"DwHEfj\">\u201dI\u2019m motivated to fight the best fighters judged on what I think and what real martial artists think, and who we think are the best,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The champs right now, they\u2019re just good at loopholes to winning, not technical martial artists. I think Jorge Masvidal, besides me, is the best in the game at it, and I thought Pettis was also. That\u2019s why I asked for that fight, and I knew it was a dangerous fight. And that\u2019s why I went in there with kill or be killed attitude because I knew that\u2019s what I was risking fighting him or Masvidal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"P5Fxbo\">\u201dImma keep it real, fight the realest best fighters that there are,\u201d Diaz concluded. \u201cFor the three years that I was out, I was sitting there like \u2018Why ain\u2019t anyone recognizing the best in the game?\u2019 You guys are all sorry that\u2019s why, and that\u2019s what it is. So I\u2019m going to defend the baddest motherf**ker belt, baddest motherf**ker in the game belt against who I believe is the other baddest motherf**ker in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it. Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal could potentially be fighting for the &#8220;baddest motherf**ker in the game belt&#8221; in the near future. Who do you think walks away with the title?<\/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> on 8\/19\/2019.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After defeating Anthony Pettis by unanimous decision at UFC 241, Nate Diaz set his sights on a fight with Jorge Masvidal. And Masvidal seems open to the matchup. While there will not be a UFC belt on the line in this prospective matchup, Diaz says he and Masvidal will be fighting for an intangible belt. 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