Nate Diaz Reacts To Conor McGregor: He Wouldn’t Have Made It In Stockton

Nate Diaz appears to be calm and focused despite being only two days out from by far the biggest fight of his lengthy MMA career when he meets Conor McGregor in the main event of Saturday’s (March 5, 2016) UFC 196 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Despite is reputation as one of the more vocal trash-talking fighters in the sport for many years, Diaz has chosen to spew precious little venom in the way of the loud and brash game of ‘Notorious.’ He’s already been made the victim of a few barbs centering on his tough Stockton, California roots at last week’s presser in Torrance, but on the third episode of UFC 196: Embedded, Diaz seemed to blow off McGregor’s insults, instead focusing on his belief that McGregor wouldn’t have made it in Stockton:

“He was doing his thing at the press conference, and he’s going to bust me out and call me a ‘Cholo,’ but that’s that the background where I come from; you know, it’s that hardcore where I live. If he woulda came from where I come from, he wouldn’t have made it, man. Nobody makes it out of where we come from, and you don’t know what I’ve been through.”

Diaz continued on to note that one statement did get to him, however, the one where McGregor poked fun of him teaching jiu-jitsu seminars to youth to increase the reach of martial arts in his community. Diaz deemed that a reach, saying that it wasn’t based in logic and may have been rehearsed:

“I come from a long lineage of hard-working top-ranked MMA fghters, top-ranked Jiu-jitsu competitors, and then as far as teaching jiu-jitsu, yeah I do seminars. I try to push martial arts out there, inspire people. That’s the only thing that kind of irritated me. There was no logic. It was kind of uncalled for. It seemed real rehearsed, like he was plotting on trying to make a fool out of me or something.”