Nate Diaz guarantees he’s not in search of hassle but when anyone begins some static with him, they could need to duck and canopy as a result of a bottle of water would possibly come zooming at them prior to later.
There are quite a lot of movies on the market displaying Diaz launching a bottle of water at any individual — most famously in a melee with Conor McGregor forward of their rematch again in 2016. As he was leaving the press convention with McGregor shouting at him, Diaz tossed a bottle of water on the Irish famous person and that led to extra bottles and even full cans of power drinks being launched throughout the room.
Diaz additionally bought right into a water bottle tossing incident with members of Islam Makhachev’s workforce backstage this previous December forward of a UFC press convention in Las Vegas. However Diaz says he’s hardly ever the aggressor as a result of these altercations normally begin with any individual speaking smack to him after which he’ll reply with a bottle of water.
“I used to be watching the previous press convention with Jake Paul [and he said] ‘he’s all the time choking any individual or throwing a bottle at them.’ I’m a counter fighter, motherf*cker,” Diaz mentioned on the HJR podcast. “Should you’re f*cking with me like ‘f*ck you bitch’ and I’m standing there with a bottle, [I’ll throw it] like shut up, bitch. This ain’t going to harm you.”
Based on Diaz, the bottle of water is all the time his first line of protection as a result of there’s hardly ever a time when he doesn’t have one close by. With such quick access, Diaz finds the bottle of water as the simplest method to get any individual’s consideration.
“Let me let you know one thing, you see how I’ve bought this bottle [of water]? I keep hydrated,” Diaz mentioned. “I all the time have water on me, regardless of the place I’m at. It’s best to see subsequent to my mattress in my room, I’ve bought f*cking 15 waters from each evening. Then somebody begins popping off, [I throw the bottle] like shut up, bitch.”
Diaz claimed most of the time, the bottle of water getting thrown is normally in response to any individual shouting insults at him from a distance.
The one-time UFC title challenger says chucking a bottle of water at them is a straightforward method to discover out if they really need to begin some hassle with him or in the event that they’re all discuss.
“Now I tagged you, balls in your courtroom,” Diaz mentioned. “What are you going to do about it? And that [bottle of water] ain’t going to harm no person.”
After all, Diaz’s willingness to combine it up with anyone at any time has come again to chew him within the checking account.
He revealed throughout the identical interview that an altercation with a Logan Paul lookalike — later recognized as Rodney Peterson — price him a hefty sum of cash after he confronted a lawsuit over the incident. Whereas Diaz was cleared of all felony costs, Peterson nonetheless sued him after video confirmed the veteran UFC fighter choking him out throughout an incident in New Orleans.
Diaz says he finally settled the lawsuit and paid Peterson fairly than persevering with the battle in courtroom, which might have price him much more cash.
“He did sue me,” Diaz mentioned. “I used to be successful however it was going to only go eternally and I used to be going to pay extra in lawyer charges. So I simply ended up paying him $18,000 as a result of my lawyer payments had been as much as $17,000. So it price me like $30,000. I get sued by all people. I assure you I bought the document.”
