When Holland met Diaz, it went about as poorly as it could have gone. In a recent appearance on The MMA Hour, Holland detailed the first time he met Nick Diaz, who by then was already an MMA legend, and how Diaz “swung” at him with little to no provocation.
“At the time, I used to be sponsored by this company named Specimen, right? And so I had this shirt on from Specimen, and [Diaz] was like, ‘Hey, that’s my shirt.’ But I had walked past him and I was like, ‘Yo, what’s up, OG?’
Remembering When Nick Diaz Swung At Kevin Holland in Public
I guess he probably thought somebody was coming up to him and fanboying over him, but I was talking to my coach. I call my coach OG. I’ll be like, ‘What’s up, OG?’ So, yeah, he was like, I guess he felt some type of way, and he said something, so I said something back. And then next thing you know, he, like, swung at me.”
Diaz accused Holland of wearing “his shirt”, and attempted to deliver a Stockton Slap. “He said something, but he said it like that was his shirt.
He was like, ‘You got on my f*cking shirt,’ and I was like, ‘Bro, this ain’t your f*cking shirt. Like, what are you talking about?’ I was like, ‘Bro, you must be f*cked up,’ and he was like looking at me all crazy.
And then he [swung to slap me], and I was like, ‘What the f*ck?’ And I dodged it. I was thinking, like, ‘Is this sh*t really happening right now?’ He, like, grabbed my leg, and I was bouncing on one leg, and I’m like, ‘Yo, get the f*ck off me.’
And I, like, shoved him off, and then my coach is like, ‘Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo!’ And I’m like, ‘Bro, this [n-word] is tripping.’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah.’ So yeah, excuse my language, but I got into it.
It’s just, it’s Diaz. That’s probably how he plays with his buddies. I don’t know. He was sauced, maybe he thought it was a good time.
I don’t know. He didn’t hit me, it’s whatever. I was a big Diaz fan and then he did that, and I was like, ‘I don’t know if I like Diaz no more.’” Today, however, Kevin Holland looks back on the incident fondly.
“All my boys still like the Diaz brothers. I tell my boys, my boys laugh. They’re like, ‘Oh, you got to hang out the Diaz bros!’
Nate’s still the GOAT. It was funny though. Honestly, now I look back, it was funny. At the time, I was hot. But now I look back, it was pretty funny.”
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