Nate Diaz would like to take this opportunity to apologize … to Charles Oliveira!
Diaz has been out and about hyping up a potential return to the UFC, which we’d get excited about if he hadn’t been periodically doing that since getting stiffed on payment for a boxing match against Jorge Masvidal in 2024. He said he was coming back in March 2025 and nothing happened. Now he’s doing it again.
“Let’s not act like I didn’t start a whole division bringing value to all these guys claiming they’re it,” Diaz declared, bringing up the BMF belt being fought for at UFC 326. “I gave opportunity and put notice on the dopest fights. I got unfinished business and I plan on going and taking what’s mine asap. 1st to ever start a division and the dopest one at that. Your welcome motherf–kers I’ll see you soon I’m coming.”
Shortly after that, Nate gave a quick interview where he shared his prediction for March 7th’s BMF fight between Max Holloway and Charles Oliveira.
“I like Max,” he declared. “I’ll slap the shit out of the other one [Charles]. That was rude, but yeah.”
After a number of articles came out that misquoted him saying he’d slap Holloway, Diaz is clarifying his statement.
“I didn’t say I’d slap Max Hollaway I said that about Oliveira,” Nate tweeted. “But I shouldn’t have said that either it was rude and I was fd up. If we were fighting in a caged match I might attempt it but that was rude I shouldn’t have said that my bad Bruhs all Respecto.”
It’s not like Nate Diaz to apologize and walk back an insult, but a man’s gotta have a code and there’s clearly people who deserve to be slapped and people who don’t. Nate clearly believes Max Holloway and Charles Oliveira don’t deserve it … unless they’re in the cage with him.
Could those fights happen? They could if UFC agrees to bring back Diaz. But for whatever reason, the UFC doesn’t seem interested in re-signing Nate. It could be his price tag, or how difficult he is to negotiate with. UFC could consider him ‘damaged goods’ following his loss to Jake Paul. Or maybe they’re still butthurt over how he managed to avoid an attempted ‘execution’ at the hands of Khamzat Chimaev and escape into free agency years ago.
Whatever the case, Nate Diaz seems like he’s in a similar position as Jorge Masvidal and Darren Till — fighters who got the release from UFC they wanted and are now stuck on the outside looking in.
