Nate Diaz has responded to Dustin Poirier saying he’d come out of retirement to fight him.
Poirier (30-10 MMA, 22-9 UFC) hung up his gloves last July but recently said he’d be willing to return to settle unfinished business with Diaz (21-13 MMA, 16-11 UFC). The pair were scheduled to fight at UFC 230 in November 2018, but it was scrapped when Poirier injured his hip.
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Diaz doesn’t want to welcome Poirier back to the UFC but is willing to fight him down the line.
“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.”
Diaz’s next fight takes place against fellow ex-UFC star Mike Perry on Saturday’s MVP MMA 1 card, which streams live on Netflix from Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif.
This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: Nate Diaz to Dustin Poirier: You ‘p*ssed out’ on fighting career
