Diaz’ Coach: Conor McGregor ‘Acted Like A Kid’
The UFC 202 pre-fight press conference was certainly a wild one to say the least.
What was expected to be just a normal McGregor press event filled with trash-talk and F-bombs turned into an all out war between the a lone Irishman and the entire ‘Scrap Pack’.
Hell broke loose after UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor and the entire Nate Diaz team threw water bottles at one another from across the theatre, after Diaz decided to walk out of the presser shortly following McGregor’s ‘rude’ late arrival.
Diaz’s boxing coach Richard Perez recently spoke to our good friends over at Submission Radio, courtesy of MMA Fighting, and backed his fighter’s decision to walk out of the press conference following the Irish champion’s late arrival to the press conference:
“I thought [Nate] did the right thing, just to walk out and got on McGregor’s nerves. He didn’t like it. He didn’t know how to handle it. So acted like a little kid and started throwing bottles -€” which he shouldn’t have, but Nathan got to him.”
Some skepticism has begun to brew that the altercation was staged, however, Perez insists that the altercation was all organic:
“It was a spontaneous thing. It wasn’t planned at all. McGregor, I guess he thinks he’s the king and can come in when he wants. Nathan was sitting just there talking, he didn’t care. And then when he came in, then he just said, you know what, it’s my turn to leave.”
Perez also refuted claims that Diaz cut from 200 pounds to make the 170-pound contest against McGregor, stating the Stockton Native walks around at 179-pounds at the most:
“He’s not 200 pounds. What happened was, he sparred some guys and he hits really hard, but he was like 179-176 (pounds), something like that – and they just said he hit like a 200-pounder. But he wasn’t 200 pounds. Never. Not even close. I think right now he said he was 172.”
As for McGregor’s chances Saturday night, Perez believes all of the Irishman’s talk is just false confidence in attempt to pump himself up, and that a trilogy bout between the two brash rivals is never going to happen:
“No. McGregor won’t do it. He won’t do it. No way. He’s just saying that right now because he’s in front of the media. He has to say something positive about himself, but it’s not gonna happen.”
McGregor and Diaz will meet in the main event of UFC 202 live on pay-per-view (PPV), from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Nevada this Saturday (August 20, 2016).
