Nate Diaz is facing a lawsuit over his alleged Recent Orleans street fight incident.
UFC stars Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal are set to face off against one another in a boxing match on June 1. Nevertheless, things took an odd activate Friday as reports indicate Diaz is facing a lawsuit.
Diaz is being sued over an alleged street fight incident in Recent Orleans back in April 2023, based on TMZ. Although that often is the case, Nate Diaz’s representation finds the entire situation “laughable.”
“Nate Diaz is being sued by a person in Louisiana who says the MMA legend beat him up and injured him during a street fight in Recent Orleans last yr, TMZ Sports has learned … a lawsuit Diaz’s people imagine is literally laughable.”
The UFC fan favorite is being sued by a person by the name of Rodney Petersen. Petersen is an amateur fighter himself, nevertheless, he claims he sustained injuries from Nate Diaz during that alleged incident in Recent Orleans.
“Petersen claims Diaz, unprovoked, attacked him, choking him unconscious, and causing his to hit his head on the concrete ground, where he says he suffered a head injury. The precise nature of the injury is not specified.”
For now, it isn’t clear what injuries were sustained. Moreover, it’s unknown how much money Petersen is in search of. With that said, TMZ reports that their sources near Nate Diaz imagine the video proves Diaz was the one who was attacked and never the opposite way around.
“In reality, our Diaz sources feel video from the incident in query proves Nate was minding his own business when Petersen approached him, and the long run UFC Hall of Famer was forced to defend himself throughout the brawl, which occurred after a Misfits Boxing event in NOLA.”
Nate Diaz was charged with second-degree battery over the incident when it initially happened. Nevertheless, those charges were eventually dropped. The UFC Hall of Famer has routinely claimed he was acting in self defense.
We’ll see the way it plays out. But based on how Diaz’s camp is reacting to the lawsuit, the veteran UFC fighter probably is not stressing out about it an excessive amount of at once. As an alternative, his attention is probably going more on Jorge Masvidal.
Nate Diaz’s possibilities against Jorge Masvidal
Diaz has gone 2-3 in his last five UFC fights. He also lost to Jake Paul by unanimous decision of their boxing match that took place in August 2023. Despite that, Nate Diaz has found a option to make his fights exciting enough to win fans over. So, it’ll be interesting to see how he fares against Jorge Masvidal.
As of now, Masvidal is the betting favorite, based on AJ Salah of Covers. Jorge Masvidal is favored at -300 while Nate Diaz is the +240 underdog. There’s loads of time between now and the June 1 fight. So, the percentages can definitely change in the approaching month.
Masvidal tends to throw with a ton of power while Diaz peppers his opponents with jabs and accurate striking. It’ll be interesting to see how this boxing match plays out. But either way we must always expect an exciting matchup between these two UFC veterans. Although Nate Diaz is the underdog, he’s more likely to do something to excite fight fans, as that is change into the norm throughout his carer.
