Four weeks before he steps back into the ring to face UFC great Francis Ngannou—who narrowly lost to Tyson Fury last year—Anthony Joshua has been called out.
Nate Diaz, who lost his boxing debut against Jake Paul six months ago, has taken shots at Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury.
The veteran UFC fighter switched to mixed martial arts last summer, but after getting knocked down in the fifth round, he lost by unanimous decision.
He was 6 feet tall with a 76-inch reach and fought Paul at a cruiserweight catchweight of 185 pounds. Diaz would lose weight by between 50 and 90 pounds in these fictitious battles, but he would give up six and nine inches of height to Joshua and Fury, respectively.
But a lack of size doesn’t stop the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu third-degree black belt. With twenty years of fighting expertise under his belt, Diaz thinks he can take on anyone.
After that, everyone is excited about boxing Floyd Mayweather. We’re just having a little fun, Diaz said in reference to the rumors that he would face another American, which date back to 2022.
I don’t appreciate being classified as an MMA fighter, he said. I box. I practice Jiu-Jitsu. I fight kickboxing. In any case, one-dimensional objects don’t appeal to me. I enjoy everything about it.
He is still a free agent, though, having left the UFC over eighteen months ago, and he expressed interest in competing at UFC 300 in April. I don’t think so, but I wanted to, Diaz continued.
I believe I want to box and compete against other fighters. Right now, I could battle everyone in the world, but nobody could defeat me. Everyone is confined to certain organizations, such as the PFL or the UFC.
On social media, he has already bragged about the possibility of fighting at the anniversary celebration. He wrote on X late last year, UFC 300 would be tight, but there’s nobody to fight.
Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz were scheduled to rematch at UFC 196, but Dana White, the president of the organization, removed Diaz’s opponent from the event because he would not travel to Las Vegas for promotional purposes.
Later, McGregor prevailed over the other fighter by majority decision at UFC 202. Late last month, Diaz shared a pre-fight photo from that battle, bringing up memories of it and raising the possibility of a trilogy match at UFC 300 with the remark, Real war.
to the event late on Christmas Day, he also hinted to a rematch with Leon Edwards, the man he lost to in his penultimate UFC bout, by posting a clip from the first fight along with the word 300.
