Earlier this month, earlier than the UFC 310 ceremonial weigh-ins and UFC 311 pre-fight press convention, former Ulitmate Preventing Championship (UFC) unhealthy boy Nate Diaz made an look that had everybody speaking as a result of a video got here out of him throwing a water bottle (one thing he typically does) in the direction of Staff Khabib.
Properly, Diaz is harmless … of not throwing a water bottle first, in response to No. 1 ranked UFC Flyweight Brandon Royval, who was there.
“A water bottle virtually hit me once I was with Nate Diaz, and I’m like, ‘Alright, who the f—ok am I f—king up?’ I didn’t care who it was,” Royval informed MMA Preventing lately. “Diaz is strolling in entrance of me. The water bottle f—king zooms by my head. That’s one other factor individuals didn’t see. Diaz didn’t throw that first water bottle. The primary water bottle was thrown at him.”
“I do know precisely who threw the water bottle. I seen it. It was the Flyweight Russian child [Tagir Ulanbekov],” Royval revealed. “He was the one who threw the primary water bottle. I circled and noticed it. I noticed who f—king threw it; it whizzed previous my f—king head.”
As one would anticipate, as quickly because the water bottle was thrown Diaz’s means, he retaliated, which was caught on video – and it was that that made Royval need to clear Diaz’s identify.
“I swear to God, Nate didn’t begin that shit,” Royval concluded. “So far as throwing water bottles, the video reveals Nate throwing the primary water bottle, however any person recorded it as a result of the water bottle was thrown at him first. I used to be within the again, that shit virtually hit me. I used to be like, ‘What the f—ok is happening?’ Oh, it’s Nate Diaz in entrance of me. I didn’t even notice.”
It’s a superb factor Choose “Rawdawg” has cleared Diaz and declared him harmless of this water bottle incident as a result of the Stockton fighter was charged with battery lately for slapping a safety guard in Las Vegas.
