WWE’s efforts to get involved in a potential fight between Logan Paul and Nate Diaz soured the former UFC grappler on the whole idea.
Speaking to ESPN this week, Diaz recalled hype around a fight with Paul, who signed with WWE last year but was put off by WWE’s eagerness to get involved. He said,
“The WWE came in and then they wanted to take over the whole thing.”
Diaz went on to say that he had only recently finished his contract with the UFC when the hype around a fight with Paul began to grow and hoped to be free of contractual obligations.
Diaz added that WWE wasn’t a fit for his ‘bad boy’ image. He said,
“I fight for real. I’m not gonna be doing a real fight on a WWE card or no funny s*** like that.”
Diaz is set to fight Logan Paul’s brother Jake in Diaz’s professional boxing debut on Wednesday, August 23, at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.
