{"id":37664,"date":"2025-08-01T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37664\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T14:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T14:37:08","slug":"josh-thomson-voices-concern-over-nate-diazs-possible-ufc-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/37664\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Thomson voices concern over Nate Diaz&#8217;s possible UFC return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomson\u2019s view on possible Diaz return<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think he beats anyone,\u201d Thomson said of his former foe on The Weighing In Podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s some fights, though, that I wouldn\u2019t mind seeing,\u201d Thomson admitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could have him fight Leon [Edwards] again\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d watch him and D-Rod,\u201d Thomson mentioned #13-ranked UFC welterweight Daniel Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWest Coast Gangsters. There\u2019s nobody else,\u201d Thomson said of who Diaz could potentially beat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeoff Neal would murder him\u2026. \u201cThe only person I would see is D-Rod.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/07\/31\/nate-diaz-rival-says-superstar-cant-beat-anybody-in-ufc-besides-one-ranked-welterweight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bloody Elbow<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, Thomson went on to say that there\u2019s a chance he could even face Nate in the world of bare-knuckle boxing.<\/p>\n<p>What do you believe is next for Nate Diaz? Let us know your thoughts, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomson\u2019s view on possible Diaz return \u201cI don\u2019t think he beats anyone,\u201d Thomson said of his former foe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-37664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}