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4th June 2019
03:35pm BST

"I'm just done with the 155 thing," Diaz said on The Ariel Helwani MMA Show. "That's in the past. I think it's time to fight at a more comfortable weight class. There's nothing for me there. I already did everything, beat everybody. "I feel I'm the king of that division anyways. I mean, I am the king of that division. So I'm just going to leave it where it's at. There was no love for it. There's no opponents there. That s---'s weak."When host Ariel Helwani countered his statement by highlighting that a lot of people would point to the undefeated Nurmagomedov as the king of the lightweight division, Diaz detailed a story where the two clashed at a World Series of Fighting event.
"At World Series of Fighting [cageside in Las Vegas in 2015]," Diaz said of the incident. "The reason he got slapped was because he's not humble and not this nice guy. He's there with his friend, trying to get a fight with me, taking a picture of me and making fun of me. "So I capitalized and told him, 'F--- you,' and I slapped him in his face. And he was spooked for his life. His whole team? Nobody did s---. I had Kron Gracie with me, it was 2-on-15. That whole Russian army who thought they were hard? They were scared for their life when that happened."Diaz will fight Pettis in a welterweight bout on Aug. 17 in Anaheim, California with Daniel Cormier fighting Stipe Miocic in the main event.
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