Things got very heated when Brendan Schaub and Nate Diaz came face-to-face in Vegas…
Heading into this past Saturday’s Mayweather vs. McGregor clash, we heard some truly outlandish predictions. Among those pundits giving McGregor a big chance of winning was former UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub.
Featured as the ‘MMA guy’ in the Showtime line up, Schaub was pretty much gushing over McGregor. Although most of the boxing world was against him, Schaub remained adamant over McGregor’s boxing.
When all was said and done, it turns out the boxing world was right, then something strange happened. Schaub got into a heated backstage argument with Nate Diaz.
Schaub Explains What Happened
Ending in Nate flipping Schaub the bird and calling him a bitch, the backstage clash at MayMac came as quite surprising. Here’s Schaub’s recollection of what was said, via MMAFighting.com: (Note he leaves out the part he talked about Diaz getting teed off on by Conor)
“Let me just clear it up now. So many people have been blowing me up. So I’m with Terence Crawford, Amir Khan, [Andre] Berto, and I’m in the back and they’re saying how good Conor did and I’m like, good, great, I thought he was gonna do even better. Showtime wanted me to go do this post-fight show thing so I’m going and I see Nate Diaz and he’s by himself on his phone. I see him and I think, same fraternity, UFC guys. . . I just figured, we’re brothers in arms here.
“So I see him and I’m like, ‘Yo Nate, bro, how about that fight, man? You’re next. Biggest fight in UFC history brother.’
“And he starts laughing. He’s like, ‘Aw hell no. How f***ing stupid do you look now? How stupid do you look, talking all this s***?’
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“And I’m like, ‘Woah, what are you doing right now? What the hell are you doing right now?’ And he keeps talking so I go, ‘Nate, he doesn’t look that stupid. He won rounds against the best boxer of all time.’
“Then Nate’s like, ‘He didn’t win rounds. He gave him one round.’
“‘Alright, man. Either way. He won rounds though. What are you doing?’ And he keeps talking s***. Then he starts talking about my career and I’m like, what is going on right now? I went, ‘Nate, I have no issues with you. You’re pointing your gun at the wrong guy. What are you doing right now? You should be selling this fight against Conor, not me. I’m not the guy. I’m in skinny jeans and Gucci boots for God’s sakes. What are you doing right now?’”
“Triggered”
“This is the part I left out, this is what triggered him. I was talking and I literally couldn’t hear him and I was like, ‘Nate, use your words. I can’t understand a word you’re saying. Use. Your. Words.’ And he has that lisp or whatever so that probably set him off. But I have no issues with Nate.
“I was so embarrassed because the Showtime guys were like, ‘Oh my God, who is that guy?’ And I’m like, ‘That’s the guy who’s supposed to fight Conor next.’”
