Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and Nate Diaz recently spoke about the run-in they had a few months back at a UFC gym. The incident occured before they knew they were soon to be matched up for this Friday’s UFC 141 event.
“Cowboy” tells his side of the story:
“Really the only interaction I’ve had with Nate is at the open workout prior to this fight. We don’t even know we’re fighting each other at this point. I walk over to be like, ‘hey man, what’s going on?’ Shake his hand… he slaps my hand away and calls me a punk ass (expletive) and walks off. And I was like, ‘what? Alright.'”
Nate Diaz gave his response to Cerrone’s side of the story:
“He shouldn’t try to shake my hand. We’re not cool like that. He fights in my bracket, man, he’s in my weight class. I’m not trying to make something that it ain’t, I’m not putting on a front for you, you know. I’ll probably be fighting you next, so you go your way, I’ll go mine.”
Nate Diaz continues with his explanation of what happened:
“He just tried to be my friend. Tried to come up and say hi, I just walked the other way. I wasn’t trying to be a bully or anything. I think he’s trying to push me in a bully’s direction, making me the bad guy but I just walked the other way. I think he’s just making it a little more than what it was.”
