{"id":1501939,"date":"2022-06-03T09:10:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1501939"},"modified":"2022-06-03T09:10:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T13:10:56","slug":"jorge-masvidal-says-nate-diaz-is-suffering-from-brain-damage-as-ufc-contract-dispute-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jorge-masvidal-says-nate-diaz-is-suffering-from-brain-damage-as-ufc-contract-dispute-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal Says Nate Diaz Is Suffering from Brain Damage as UFC Contract Dispute Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjorge-masvidal-says-nate-diaz-is-suffering-from-brain-damage-as-ufc-contract-dispute-continues%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1501939&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\">Jorge Masvidal (left) beat Nate Diaz via doctor stoppage in 2019 (Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jorge-masvidal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jorge Masvidal\" class=\"link\">Jorge Masvidal<\/a> has suggested that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nate-diaz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nate Diaz\" class=\"link\">Nate Diaz<\/a> is suffering from brain damage amid his contract dispute with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ufc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC\" class=\"link\">UFC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz, 37, has one fight left on his current deal but has not been able to agree upon an opponent. The American has voiced his frustration with the situation frequently in recent months, and old foe Masvidal has now weighed in on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he\u2019s got too much CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) to even understand what they\u2019re putting in front of him,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RxXW6QYAkvg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Masvidal said of Diaz on The MMA Hour\" class=\"link\">Masvidal said of Diaz on The MMA Hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally I don\u2019t take the UFC\u2019s side, as you know, but from what I\u2019ve heard and seen, this guy just has a f***ing ego, bro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike, just f***ing fight. I can send him off in his last fight with all that s*** talk he\u2019s been doing lately. I wouldn\u2019t mind breaking his jaw and sending him off to whatever gambling casino he\u2019s going to be fighting at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe won\u2019t sign when my name gets brought up. He goes ghost on Hunter [Campbell, UFC Chief Business Officer], he goes ghost on all the matchmakers for a couple of weeks when my name gets brought up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he\u2019s hearing this and he\u2019s going to go make a little, stupid tweet and go down the whole thing&#8230; b***h, sign the paper and let\u2019s fight, man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masvidal, 37, beat compatriot Diaz via doctor stoppage in 2019, moving to 3-0 for the year.<\/p>\n<p>Masvidal has since gone 0-3, however, most recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/ufc\/masvidal-covington-result-ufc-272-dustin-poirier-b2029544.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:losing to friend-turned-rival Colby Covington\" class=\"link\">losing to friend-turned-rival Colby Covington<\/a> on points in March.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz, meanwhile, has not competed since losing to Leon Edwards via decision last summer. That bout marked Diaz\u2019s first fight since his defeat by Masvidal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorge Masvidal (left) beat Nate Diaz via doctor stoppage in 2019 (Getty Images)Jorge Masvidal has suggested that Nate Diaz is suffering from brain damage amid his contract dispute with the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}