Tempers flared at the UFC 202 weigh-in on Friday night, as Nate Diaz and Conor McGregor came perilously close to exchanging blows ahead of their mouth-watering rematch on Saturday.
Diaz brought the exuberant McGregor back down to earth in UFC 196 earlier this year with a sensational second-round victory, but the Irishman is determined to prove that he can still cut it in the welterweight division—and he appeared ready for war in Las Vegas.
However, McGregor came in under the weight limit, at 168 lbs, while Diaz tipped the scales at 170.5 lbs, as JOE’s Darragh Murphy revealed:
168 lbs for Conor McGregor ahead of #UFC202 while Diaz comes in at 170.