Nate Diaz vs. Mike Perry is a fight announcement that took the combat sports world by storm, and one half of a looming PFL headliner is waxing poetic about the long-desired fight. Bryan Battle is the combatant in question and takes on Johnny Eblen in the main event of PFL Pittsburgh on March 28th.<\/p>\n
Since his UFC departure, Bryan Battle had multiple contests for DBX, with Perry helming the promoter role for Dirty Boxing Championship. The \u2018Platinum\u2019 Perry announcement for the Netflix MMA card that MVP is promoting sees Perry taking on Nate Diaz. This\u00a0 news was freshly dropped before this Battle interview was conducted and when asked what his thoughts are on the Perry vs. Diaz fight coming up in May in Los Angeles, Battle said [via Bowks Talking Bouts<\/a>],<\/p>\n \u201cI literally just did an interview, and I just heard about that. I did not know that was happening until about 20 minutes ago. That is a crazy fight. Now I\u2019ll be tuning into that. That\u2019s a fight for the fans. You know what I\u2019m saying? That\u2019s like a love letter to the fans kind of fight. I know Nate [Diaz] and Mike [Perry]<\/a> will deliver in that fight. So that\u2019ll be a lot of fun. That\u2019ll be a lot of fun. That\u2019s just; all you can say about that fight is that it\u2019s going to be a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Nate Diaz vs. Mike Perry may reportedly prevent the former from ever returning to the UFC<\/p>\n Nate Diaz vs. Mike Perry is a big box office bout that fans have wondered about for years, and a veteran MMA media member has intimated that it could ice Diaz out from future UFC opportunities. This was expressed by Luke Thomas on X, although the thread began with Ariel Helwani discussing that the UFC indicated interest in re-signing Diaz. The talks that were had regarding a Diaz return reportedly centred specifically on a long-discussed rubber match with Conor McGregor, per Helwani.<\/p>\n