Nate Diaz To Dustin Poirier: Don’t Involve Me, You’re A P*ssy

Nate Diaz did not keep his words light when asked about the opponent that got away in the UFC.

Dustin Poirier and Nate Diaz were originally scheduled to fight each other a few years back, however, that never happened when both sides could not come to a financial agreement and the negotiations for the bout fell out immediately with both men taking jabs at each other ever since.

Diaz is set to compete on May 16 against Mike Perry in his first MMA bout since his last fight with the UFC where he submitted Tony Ferguson and departed from the promotion for the first time in over a decade.

When asked about The Diamond, Diaz did not keep any words of his shy from his rival, in fact, he let him know the fight would still be on the table if Poirier never hung up the gloves following a retirement fight against Max Holloway.

“I am (interested) if he f*cking gets in there and starts fighting people,” Diaz said on “The Ariel Helwani Show.” “I don’t fight retired fighters. He jumped ship a little early, so it’s not someone that I’m that interested in. Get back in the game and start squabbling with people. Where the hell did you go? ‘I’ll come back for you now.’ No, don’t come back on account of me. Get some sleep. Get you some sleep. He got emotional when he fought somebody, and he’s like, ‘I’m retired. Oh, this was so great.’

“A whole f*cking little lady moment where he needed to talk about his feelings and how he was all done with all this. And then he went, ‘Oh, what the f*ck did I do?’ Yeah, you were being a b*tch in your post-fight interview, and you set your gloves down and you shed a tear, and then two weeks later he’s like, ‘I want to fight Nate, I’ll come back for Nate.’ Like, you didn’t even leave, stupid. You f*cking p*ssed out. Don’t involve me in that sh*t. You’re a p*ssy. Get back in the game and start squabbling.”

The bout between Diaz and Perry will take place on Netflix for MVP MMA’s first-ever card.

h/t to MMA Junkie for the transcription.