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Nate Diaz feels he's being forced into Matt Brown fight rather than being dealt with fairly
Apr 13, 2015 - 9:25:26 PM Nate Diaz feels he's being forced into Matt Brown fight rather than being dealt with fairly

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

"I was told the Brown fight was talked about but they were supposed to work out a deal and figure it all out, negotiate the fight the next Monday. Then all of a sudden [it's announced]. I never necessarily okayed the fight, the fight was never negotiated, and then all of a sudden I was getting blown up about the fight.

I think that's a great fight, everybody would want to see that fight - I would if I was just a fight fan, that sounds like an awesome fight, like a fight you'd like to see. But it was never talked about, and it kind of feels like I'm being forced into a fight instead of talked to and dealt with fairly.

They just have the push power. They say I'm fighting and I'm fighting now, so I don't know. I don't think so. It don't work like that. Maybe with all these other guys out here, but I think if you're going to fight somebody next Saturday, I'm not going to just say that you're going to fight somebody and assume you can show up. I'm probably going to call you and make sure you can show up, right? Talk about it. I haven't [talked to anybody], but if it was dealt with properly and the circumstances were better, then I'm all aboard. That'd be a great fight, especially with a fighter like that."

-Nate Diaz talks to Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour about the UFC's decision to announce a fight between he and Matt Brown before actually speaking to him about it.

Penick's Analysis: Now, there are a lot of nonsensical things that the Diaz brothers like to complain about, but this isn't one of them. If there were plans to discuss potential fights for this week, they shouldn't have gone ahead with announcing that fight. They very well could have settled on it after a discussion, but that should have taken place rather than them, trying to strong-arm him into the fight. It wasn't necessary, and now leads to more negatives than it's worth.