Nate Diaz looks back on his UFC scrap with Josh Neer
Diaz looked back on his war with Neer during an appearance during an appearance on Bradley Martin’s Raw Talk Podcast.
“I always say it, but there’s a guy that I fought, named Josh Neer,” he said. “He’s a motherf*cker. He’s my boy now, though. We’re homies.
“But Josh Neer fought my brother [Nick Diaz first],” Diaz added. They were fighting for three rounds, hard, and Nick’s doing his thing, hitting him a lot, and I was like ‘This f*cking guy is crazy.’ Then Nick ended up finishing him in the third round. Most people Nick finished were all in the first round, and maybe the second round.
“Time went by, and then [Neer] went down to 155 [pounds], where I was fighting at,” Diaz continued. “I was beating people. That’s when I first got to the UFC, I beat a few people… So they gave me Josh Neer, who was one of the top five guys. That’s right when I started to fight top people. And it was my hardest fight.
“I watched him fight so much, and then trained so perfect for him that everything was like… He’d throw punches, I slipped it right under it, grabbed him and everything. But he countered everything, and it was like if you watch that fight, me versus Josh Neer, it’s a hundred miles an hour. It’s a good fight.”
Are you surprised Nate Diaz didn’t name drop someone like Conor McGregor or Jorge Masvidal as his toughest Octagon opponent?
