MMA News Roundup: Nate Diaz Gives His Return Date at UFC 306, Islam Makhachev Puts Ilia Topuria in Place, Khamzat Chimaev Exposed by Costa

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We will start with Nate Diaz calling out Dana White for an appearance at UFC 306. Then we will shift our focus to Islam Makhachev’s response to Ilia Topuria’s challenge. Finally, we will sum up the daily news compilation with a Paulo Costa expose of Khamzat Chimaev. So without any further ado let’s get started.

Nate Diaz wants to fight at UFC 306

Nate Diaz wanted to fight at the UFC 300. The Stockton native even uploaded a photo of his battle with Conor McGregor with the caption ‘Real War’ just ahead of the UFC 300 main event confirmation by Dana White. Despite his efforts, Diaz seems to have given up on his dream to be on the UFC 300 card but seems like he has not given up on the promotion yet.

Diaz in his latest escapade took to his social media handles to state that he wants to fight at the UFC 306 card at any cost. On his X handle, Diaz shared a picture of the Las Vegas Sphere, the official venue of the UFC 306 event, and captioned it with “I’ll be here fuck 300”. 

Furthermore, Diaz took to his Instagram handle to share an image as well as a video about the event. In one of the stories he again shared a picture of the ‘Sphere’, however this time with a caption that read “I’m busy for UFC 300, I’ll pull up to this one”. In the other story, Diaz explained what he would do with the ‘Sphere’ if he got access to the admin panel. UFC 306 is set to hit the streets on Septemeber 16th and there’s a possibility that Dana White might let Diaz fight at the venue.

Now, let us shift our focus to the newly crowned UFC featherweight champion, Ilia Topuria.

Islam Makhachev responds to Ilia Topuria’s challenge

Ilia Topuria shocked the world at UFC 298 when he knocked out Alexander Volkanovski to clinch the featherweight title. ‘El Matador’ promised that he would deliver a war and he certainly did. After the fight, Topuria was asked what is his opinion on facing lightweight champ, Islam Makhachev, ‘El Matador’ stated that his final objective is Islam Makhachev has he should ready for it.

The lightweight champ, Makhachev who has already defeated Alexander Volkanovski twice in a row recently made news by commenting on Topuria’s challenge. Makhachev said “Another short guy is talking. Another short guy wants to be smashed.” It must be noted that ‘El Matador’ asserted that he would be defending his title once or twice before starting his endeavor at the lightweight division.

Setting aside the animosity between Topuria and Makhachev, let’s now shift our focus to one of the most prominent feuds currently in the UFC promotion. The Paulo Costa and Khamzat Chimaev one.

Paulo Costa exposed Khamzat Chimaev’s secret

Paulo Costa and Khamzat Chimaev have a history. The duo has been pulling each other legs for years now. Costa and Chimaev were scheduled to fight at UFC 294 but a sudden staph infection on Costa’s shoulder stopped the bout and Kamaru Usman had to step up to fight ‘Borz’. Chimaev won that fight, however, the MMA community raised doubts over ‘Broz’s ability considering the fact that Kamaru Usman gave him a very hard time in the ring and Paulo Costa is in the group of people who think that CHimaev is not a big shot.

In his most recent escapade, Costa was asked about his rematch against Chimaev to which the Brazilian sensation stated that there’s a possibility for that fight to happen in the future but not sooner. ‘Eraser’ further added that Chimaev as a fighter looks for easier opponents “He[Khamzat Chimaev] needs to stop running; he needs to have the ba**s to face me. Yes, for a long time, this guy has just avoided this fight. He has no balls, you know? If the guys don’t push him, he has no balls to fight me.”

He further added “He wants to fight easy fights; he doesn’t want to fight guys like me, [Robert] Whittaker, or somebody else like that. He wants to fight guys with no wrestling, no jiu-jitsu game, no grappling, you know? Something like that.” 

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