Nate Diaz: ‘F*ck You Eddie Alvarez, Gilbert Won, What Up?’
Gilbert Melendez was involved in a somewhat controversial split decision loss to Eddie Alvarez at UFC 188, having seemingly dominated the first two rounds against ‘The Silent Assassin’, leaving him bloodied and battered, ‘El Nino’ came out on the wrong side of a judge’s split decision. An obviously deflated Melendez left the octagon confused and likely disappointed in the final result.
One fellow fighter and Cesar Gracie team mate that is more than disappointed is UFC lightweight/welterweight Nate Diaz, who was handily on site with MMAFighting.com reporter Ariel Helwani post-fight in Mexico City, Mexico:
“Gilbert Melendez won round one and round two. I don’t think Alvarez did anything, I don’t know how he won that fight. Eddie’s face was all broken and shit, Gilbert just tried to hop on the bus and go to the post fight press conference but they are sending him home, he’s ready to go. I don’t understand how it works, how he won. (Alvarez) says he wants me next, what’s up bitch, he says he wants to fight me now he wants to go run and hide.”
Why Melendez wasn’t allowed to attend the post-fight presser is pure speculation at this stage, but perhaps if he was as pissed of as Nate Diaz then the promotion could’ve been trying to avoid some unsavoury after shocks. Diaz continued, calling out pretty much everyone at the stadium:
“All these fools are acting like they are tired, but these bitches won’t look me in the face. They act like they want to fight me, but then they look at the ground when they walk past. Anthony Pettis just walked past me and looked at the ground, he talks shit on the internet. I don’t know how Eddie won the fight, it’s just this silly fucking thing, I don’t know how it works. I’m around, I don’t know if I’m fighting, if some of you (Pettis, Alvarez) want to man up and fight the real fighters, we can get it. Gilbert won, fuck you Eddie, what up?”
Diaz’s last trip to the octagon was a one-sided beatdown against current UFC lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos, while the Brazilian was still surging towards his UFC 185 title fight against Anthony Pettis. As much as Diaz is more troll than anything else at this point, especially considering his extended absences from the octagon, the guy is also pure comic genius; whether he realizes it or not.
The MMA community needs fighters like the Diaz brothers, but are they past their shelf lives in the octagon? Would Nate Diaz provide any sort of challenge to guys like ‘Showtime’ or Eddie Alvarez at this point?
