“I love Nate Diaz and Nick Diaz as much as anybody else does,” Dana White blasts critics suggesting Khamzat Chimaev fight will downgrade Nate Diaz’s market value

The UFC Welterweight fighter Khamzat Chimaev blasted into the top 10 rankings of the Welterweight division with a dominating win against Li Jingliang at UFC 267. Chimaev returned to the Octagon almost after a year after dealing with COVID-related health issues and he announced his arrival in style. In the post-fight press conference, Khamzat Chimaev called out the UFC veteran, Nate Diaz to face him next.

Diaz has only one fight left on his UFC contract and he wants a big name for this fight. Although the idea of booking a fight between Khamzat Chimaev and Nate Diaz appeared tempting to Dana White as well and he is all in for this fight. But the fans and critics over the internet suggested that this fight is going to be a one-sided affair for Khamzat and UFC is throwing Diaz to the wolf.

Replying to all this in his latest interview with Robbie Fox, Dana White revealed Khamzat Chimaev’s fight was offered to Nate Diaz even before UFC 267, White says, “That fight was offered to him before this weekend, it’s not like this that it just popped out of the thin air and this fight was offered to him before this weekend. I usually don’t talk about that sh*t publicly.”

“Everybody’s thrown into the wolves, I mean I was just talking about last night with that kid (Khamzat Chimaev) he came in here and fought a tough veteran and I told him hey kid everybody here is tough, you think these guys are waiting to get to UFC and this isn’t a diss I love Nate Diaz, you know Nick and Nate as much as anybody else does.”

Dana White claims Khamzat Chimaev vs Nate Diaz is going to be as big as Diaz’s other fights

Nate Diaz is being also matched with Conor McGregor for the trilogy fight as the last fight on his UFC career. But Dana White believes his fight against Khamzat Chimaev is going to be as big as any other fight on Diaz. He added, “How does Khamzat Chimaev fight is going to devalue him, you know how massive that fight is going to be that’s the only thing people care about.”

“When you announce a fight there is this buzz going out and everybody’s going crazy, do you think Nate Diaz and Khamzat Chimaev is not that fight. I tell you all these people are fu*king mo*on, I run the biggest combat sports business in the fu*king planet earth.”

The UFC veteran, Chael Sonnen suggested in one of his videos that Chimaev is only one fight away from the title shot, and talking about it White says, “I don’t know, listen he looked incredible he’s been blowing the doors of people when you start to break in the top five top ten, you’re running into some real guys and that division is a nasty division. So we’ll find out what’s next for him.”

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