Nate Diaz has insisted he's "already beaten" Conor McGregor after the Irishman proposed a slap fight between the rivals.
McGregor recently expressed an interest in settling his rivalry with Diaz in UFC chief Dana White's new Power Slap league. Diaz became the first man to defeat McGregor in the UFC, submitting him on 11 days' notice when they fought in 2016. McGregor avenged the loss six months later and the pair have been backed to fight for the third time ever since.
"This power slap championships is growing on me," McGregor wrote. "Who doesn’t like watching good quality clatters hahaha. Me Vs Nate on it for the title, maybe that’s a title you’d have a better chance of coming close to winning Nate you little slapper hahahaha. Fascinating. I’m attending one of these 100 per cent."
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Diaz responded to McGregor's proposal of a slap fight by posting a video from their first fight with the caption: "I already beat you at that game too". McGregor then replied to Diaz by writing "Got you back with concussions. Real smacks." Diaz wasn't done there as he posted another video of him choking out McGregor, also writing: "If submissions weren’t allowed I knocked you out way faster than Floyd [Mayweather] did.
McGregor didn't reply to Diaz's second video but the former UFC bad-boy continued to goad him by boasting about submitting him faster than Khabib Nurmagomedov did. "But it was real so I choked you better and faster than kabob [Khabib] did," he wrote. Diaz submitted McGregor with less than a minute left in the second round of their fight, whilst Nurmagomedov tapped him out in the fourth round in their 2018 grudge match.
McGregor gave his UFC rival credit for beating him by replying "respect" to the picture of him tapping out, later adding: "I telling you bro I been milling people your shape and size and bad. But gonna be a knock no doubt. I not sure I give a rats fully but I gonna go sprint until I can’t sprint no more in the 3rd fight I don’t care. Opening bell the absolute most power I have on me. Until we’ll see."
A third meeting between McGregor and Diaz is unlikely to happen unless Diaz re-signs with the UFC following his departure from the promotion in September. McGregor's current UFC contract expires in October, meaning the pair could entertain a trilogy fight outside of the promotion the Irishman doesn't re-sign or extend his deal before it runs out.
