Nate Diaz, who is not recognized for being one of many extra emotional fighters within the sport, took to X/Twitter to pay tribute to beloved actor Carl Weathers, who performed the Apollo Creed character within the iconic ‘Rocky’ movies. Nonetheless, the Stockton legend opted to give attention to Weathers’ different movies.
Specifically, he shared a clip from ‘Pleased Gilmore,’ the place Weathers performs an expert golfer named Derick ‘Chubbs’ Peterson, who passes away sooner or later within the movie. The clip Diaz shared consists of the Peterson character fortunately within the afterlife. This drew a shocking response from followers of Diaz.
One fan recommended Diaz for sharing a clip from ‘Pleased Gilmore.’
“Greatest clip of all time dawg”
One other fan, nonetheless, identified the rarity of Diaz being emotional, given his gangster persona.
“Nate being emotional, that’s new”
Different feedback targeted on the final mourning for Weathers.
“Rip to the goat”
This was echoed by different feedback.
“RIP Chubbs”
A collage of fan reactions might be seen beneath:
The ex-UFC star has been comparatively silent as of late. He has not taken half in an MMA bout since parting methods with the UFC. His final fight sports activities matchup was a boxing match with Jake Paul, which he misplaced in convincing vogue, even struggling a devastating knockdown.
Nonetheless, as he at all times does, Diaz survived and managed to search out moments to showboat within the ring, which lightened the load of his loss to somebody he has, traditionally, derided for not being an actual fighter.
Will Nate Diaz face Conor McGregor at UFC 300?
Whereas Conor McGregor hasn’t been confirmed for UFC 300, nor has there been any information on him going through anybody in addition to Michael Chandler, some have opined that the higher choice could be for the Irishman to tackle Nate Diaz in a trilogy bout within the UFC 300 headline.
This was echoed by Daniel Cormier, a former double champion-turned-color commentator and analyst. Nonetheless, Diaz just isn’t signed to a UFC contract and is infamous for being troublesome to barter with, so whether or not the UFC may meet his calls for so the 2 agree on phrases is a relative unknown.
