If you were sitting around last March wondering why Nate Diaz and his older brother Nick Diaz weren’t fighting at UFC 209, you weren’t alone.
Despite widespread fan support for the Diaz brothers to be included on the card that shared the numerals of their infamous Stockton area code, neither Diaz made an appearance at UFC 209. And according to Nate, the UFC never even asked.
“It was almost like an ego thing the UFC was playing,” Diaz said Wednesday on a special edition of The MMA Hour. “Like, no one even called.