Rafael dos Anjos and Nate Diaz fought each other at UFC on FOX: Dos Santos vs. Miocic nearly seven years ago, when the former defeated the latter by way of unanimous decision. They met again almost two years later, but not inside of the Octagon as one would expect.
Dos Anjos and Diaz had a brief, yet funny run-in at the hot bar of a Whole Foods in Santa Monica just days after the Stockton native submitted Conor McGregor via second-round rear-naked choke at UFC 196 in Las Vegas. The fight with McGregor was supposed to be dos Anjos’, but the then-lightweight champion was forced to withdraw from it after breaking his foot during a training session at Kings MMA.