There have been a couple of videos showing Nate Diaz launching his water bottle at opponents, and the fighter revealed his reason for this.
The UFC veteran is well known for his striking and impressive skill in the cage, but another thing he’s quite popular for is using his water bottle as a projectile outside the cage. One of his most popular scuffles was a melee with Conor McGregor ahead of their rematch back in 2016. As he was leaving the press conference, with McGregor shouting at him, Diaz tossed a bottle of water at the Irish superstar. That led to more bottles—and even full cans of energy drinks—being launched across the room.
Diaz also recently got into it with Islam Makhachev’s team at the UFC press conference in Las Vegas. The fighter exchanged a few words with Makhachev’s team members, then soon launched his water bottle at them. Diaz revealed that the water bottle is his go-to defense, as he always has it on him and likes to stay hydrated.
“I was watching the old press conference with Jake Paul [and he said], ‘He’s always choking somebody or throwing a bottle at them.’ I’m a counter fighter, motherfcker,” Diaz said on the HJR podcast. “If you’re fcking with me like ‘f*ck you, bitch,’ and I’m standing there with a bottle, [I’ll throw it] like shut up, bitch. This ain’t going to hurt you.”
“Let me tell you something, you see how I’ve got this bottle [of water]? I stay hydrated,” Diaz said. “I always have water on me, no matter where I’m at. You should see next to my bed in my room—I’ve got f*cking 15 waters from every night. Then someone starts popping off, [I throw the bottle] like shut up, bitch.”
While Diaz has never suffered any backlash from other fighters, he recently got into trouble with a lookalike. He revealed during the same interview that an altercation with a Logan Paul lookalike—later identified as Rodney Peterson—cost him a hefty sum of money after he faced a lawsuit over the incident.
Although he was cleared of all criminal charges, Peterson still sued him after video showed the veteran UFC fighter choking him out during an incident in New Orleans.
“He did sue me,” Diaz said. “I was winning, but it was going to just go forever, and I was going to pay more in lawyer fees. So I just ended up paying him $18,000 because my lawyer bills were up to $17,000. So it cost me like $30,000. I get sued by everybody. I guarantee you I got the record.”
