Clay Guida delivered an epic comeback victory at UFC Vegas 44 and he’s got his eyes on yet another prize: Nate Diaz. At the post-fight press conference, Guida called Diaz out, declaring that he already beat Diaz once, and wants to take him on once again.
“We just want to stay on the gas pedal. Stay active and there’s still one dude out there with our name on him. I beat him once. I’ll give him another chance.
Clay Guida Calls Nate Diaz Out: “I know you’re out there, you can’t run, you can’t hide”
Nate Diaz, I know you’re out there. You can’t run. You can’t hide. I know you’re going to turn the fight down and probably won’t even know that we want to fight you, but if you ever want to do it again, buddy, I’ll give you a shot at it. Let me know.”
Guida fought Nate Diaz way back in 2009, earning a unanimous decision victory over the UFC star. Diaz, more recently, fought for the “BMF” belt against Jorge Masvidal, who won via a doctor’s stoppage.
Nate Diaz has made no secret of his wish for a highly ranked opponent, preferably in the top five, so it’s not likely we’ll see Guida vs Diaz any time soon. However, Guida remains optimistic, and is happy just to be in the game.
On the circumstances of his remarkable victory, which saw Guida overcome a brutal knockdown and barrage of shots from Leonardo Santos only to submit the jiu-jitsu specialist in the second round, he credited his all-American wrestling pedigree.
“I was literally laughing. I’m like this is not how this year is supposed to end. Not in front of a crowd that I’ve been able to fight in front of since 2019, not in front of my parents, coaches, national television on ESPN. Like c’mon Clay, get your crap together.
We stayed calm in there and like I said, listen to my coaches. I could hear everything clear as a bell. They said he’s breaking, he’s tired, he blew it already and just stayed on him and that’s what we did.
I had to weather the storm. There’s no such thing as quit. I don’t know the definition of that. We don’t know the definition of “get tired” or “stop” and that’s all due to wrestling.
Beginning of the second [I knew I had him]. We just started coming at him and swinging ugly overhands and I don’t really know if any of them landed. Coach says I landed a few. I think I remember one right hand land but he was backing up and once we took his back and I kind of mat returned, kind of a lazy mat return, and he just didn’t really move, didn’t wiggle, didn’t do anything, I’m like all right we got this.”
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