Nate Diaz’s longtime teammate and friend Chris Avila has no time for Khamzat Chimaev’s shenanigans. The fiasco at UFC 279 fight week earned the ire of many in the MMA community, and Avila called Chimaev a “piece of sh*t” over his unapologetic failure to make weight for the scheduled headline fight against Nate Diaz. Besides, he told The MMA Hour, Nate would have beaten Khamzat anyway.
“It was a crazy two weeks. Well, we were out there for two weeks, but the whole time, yeah, it got crazier and crazier day by day.
Diaz Teammate Blasts “Piece of Sh*t” Chimaev, Says Nate Diaz Would Beat Him Anyway
That whole turnaround was f****** insane. Khamzat being that [overweight] was very unprofessional. And good things happen to good people, so Nate’s a f****** good dude and f****** Khamzat’s not too good of a dude. He’s a piece of s*** for f****** missing weight, and that’s on him. He ain’t going to get that bag [from fighting Diaz], so whatever. That was 2-0 for Nate, dog. That was two wins in one week.”
Khamzat’s weight miss was only one piece of the chaotic fight week that saw backstage brawls, the press conference canceled, and a widespread belief that Nate Diaz was being fed to the wolves for his final UFC appearance.
“All that talk of Khamzat’s over here going to destroy, whoop, whoop, whoop, was bulls*** anyway. I think the fight would’ve turned out the same way it did with Tony, 100 percent. [Diaz would’ve submitted him,] I believe so, yeah, either standing or the same way, unless all Khamzat wanted to do was f****** hold on for dear life, scared as f***.”
The silver lining, however, is that Chris Avila will fight for Nate Diaz’s new Real Fight Inc. promotion.
“I feel like it’s a good opportunity to show everybody who I am and get my name out there as well. And I’m excited because I’m starting the pay-per-view off, I’m fighting a guy who gets a lot of views and he sells tickets and whatnot, and I’m excited to go out there and show everybody who are the real fighters.
And I see everybody — like, the era right now is all these YouTubers coming out and trying to get in the fight game and trying to fight anybody [who’s] a real fighter. I don’t know, I’m excited, it’s a good opportunity.
I believe I’m kickstarting [things for the brand], I’ll be the first fighter to represent the Real Fight Inc. and then we’ve got a whole army afterward. I know [Diaz] has got plans for Real Fight Inc. soon — right after this fight, [we] plan on throwing a pretty big fight card with Real Fight Inc., and I’ve got some pretty big names that I should be fighting on there. So that’s coming soon too, that’s coming real soon actually.”
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