{"id":375894,"date":"2021-02-10T08:10:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=375894"},"modified":"2021-02-10T08:13:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T16:13:50","slug":"nate-diaz-claims-he-hasnt-been-finished-in-the-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/nate-diaz-claims-he-hasnt-been-finished-in-the-ufc\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate Diaz claims he hasn&#8217;t been finished in the UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC superstar Nate Diaz claimed that he hasn&#8217;t been finished inside the Octagon during a recent interview with ESPN&#8217;s Ariel Helwani.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/nate-diaz-reacts-to-dustin-poirier-defeating-conor-mcgregor-at-ufc-257\/\">Diaz has been vocal in recent weeks after his former rival Conor McGregor was finished by Dustin Poirier at UFC 257<\/a>. Diaz has been busy calling out Poirier for a big-money fight in the meantime, and part of it is that he truly doesn&#8217;t believe that McGregor should be fighting for the belt next. During the interview, Diaz questioned McGregor&#8217;s stoppage losses, claiming that he personally has never been finished.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How come these guys are all getting finished? It\u2019s a part of war. The main objective in war is \u2018go out there and come back home.\u2019 And these guys all get finished off and it f\u2014ng irritates me too. Conor McGregor just got finished, right? It\u2019s a big fight, it\u2019s a huge thing, he\u2019s the best, he\u2019s gonna get a rematch, he\u2019s the f\u2014ng GOAT and all this funny sh-t. Well, you just got finished off,&#8221; Diaz said (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2021\/2\/10\/22275922\/ufc-nate-diaz-claims-hes-the-last-of-real-martial-artists-today-aint-no-one-finished-me-off-mma-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloody Elbow<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you get finished off like that, that doesn\u2019t drop you down in the ranking system. It\u2019s a control issue, too. That doesn\u2019t drop you down two spots in the rankings. You got choked out. You got knocked out. You just lost 15 spots. And then they still try to talk about me and my sh-t record, I\u2019m like, \u2018Ain\u2019t no one finished me off. I\u2019m still gonna be here until the end of time.\u2019 I\u2019m telling you, I\u2019m hard to kill. Not like the rest of these guys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Josh Thomson would have something to say about Diaz&#8217;s comments, considering he stopped him with a head kick back at UFC on FOX 7. Then again, since it was the ref stopping the fight for a TKO (and partly Nick Diaz throwing in the towel), and not Nate actually getting finished, perhaps he has a point. Similarly, when Diaz was finished by Jorge Masvidal, it was a doctor stoppage TKO. So in Diaz&#8217;s mind, he has never been officially finished in the UFC, though it would be hard to dispute his armbar loss to Hermes Franca in the WEC.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think is next for Nate Diaz?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC superstar Nate Diaz claimed that he hasn&#8217;t been finished inside the Octagon during a recent interview with ESPN&#8217;s Ariel Helwani. Diaz has been vocal in recent weeks after his former rival Conor McGregor was finished by Dustin Poirier at UFC 257. Diaz has been busy calling out Poirier for a big-money fight in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54477,"featured_media":330968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10123,39610],"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>Nate Diaz claims he hasn&#039;t been finished in the UFC | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC superstar Nate Diaz claimed that he hasn&#039;t been finished inside the Octagon during a recent interview with ESPN&#039;s Ariel Helwani.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/nate-diaz-claims-he-hasnt-been-finished-in-the-ufc\/\" 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