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While UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor has his hopes set on a mega-payday boxing match against Floyd “Money” Mayweather, No. 8 ranked Nate Diaz is patiently waiting for McGregor’s return to the octagon after the two went 1-1 in 2016 and made a helluva lot of money together. However, this is holding up the division and the big payday fights are now few and far between. No. 2 ranked Tony Ferguson knows a money fight when he sees it though and is doing his best to lure Nate off the sidelines and into the octagon with him.

Ferguson, who is currently riding a nine-fight winning streak, was recently on the Five Rounds Podcast with Brett Okamoto where he made his case to the Diaz brother:

“If you really want that money fight then you’re probably hurting for money. Literally, if you have that money fight, you should pay your taxes and then move on. This is a fighter sport. You’re ranked number what, eight? Ninth? Don’t you want to be better than that? S**t, dude you beat is ranked higher than you. Don’t you want an opportunity at the belt? Come on. I’m skipping a couple names but I’m giving you an opportunity. I’m doing you a favor, I’m not doing myself a f**king favor. I’m giving you a chance.”

“We got options. Nate, you’re not the last option. If you don’t want to fight, go hide in a hole. But you’ve got to admit on Twitter that you don’t want to fight me. You’re f**king scared homie. All that s**t’s gotta go out the f**king window. ‘Don’t be scared homie.’ People are gonna start throwing that s**t away and it’s gonna be crazy.

“You can wait for McNuggets but we all know if you wait for that fool, if he fights Mayweather and he doesn’t fight again, you might not get another chance for a big money fight besides this guy.”

https://youtu.be/5CHwck3BDG0

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