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UFC 244: Nate Diaz says The Rock picked wrong side with Jorge Masvidal – ‘he can get it too’

  • Nate Diaz says UFC should have got Mike Tyson instead of Dwayne Johnson to crown ‘BMF’ champion
  • ‘The Rock’s cool, I like Ballers … but he picked another side’

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Jorge Masvidal is awarded the ‘BMF’ belt by Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson after his victory by TKO on a medical stoppage against Nate Diaz at UFC 244. Photo: AFP
Nicolas Atkin

It was evident from Dwayne Johnson’s Madison Square Garden walkout at UFC 244, complete with WWE entrance music, that everybody loves “The Rock”. Well, everybody but Nate Diaz.

Johnson was on hand to wrap the “BMF” title belt round the waist of the winner of Saturday night’s main event between Diaz and Masvidal.

That honour of course went to Masvidal, after the doctor stopped the fight before the start of the fourth round because of a nasty cut above Diaz’s eye.

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“F*** The Rock,” Diaz said with a smile at the post-event press conference. “That [expletive] over here playing me. See him smiling with Masvidal. He can get it too.

“He on that side, f*** him. I’m on the west coast side. Mike Tyson should’ve been here anyway, he’s the baddest man on the planet.”

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