{"id":188094,"date":"2025-10-03T20:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188094\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T20:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:48:07","slug":"nate-diaz-hits-back-at-dustin-poirier-after-retired-ufc-legend-teases-potential-zuffa-boxing-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188094\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate Diaz hits back at Dustin Poirier after retired UFC legend teases potential Zuffa Boxing showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC superstar Nate Diaz took notice of Dustin Poirier\u2019s recent comeback teases for a potential boxing matchup with the Stockton standout.<\/p>\n<p>Dustin Poirier\u2019s last UFC hurrah couldn\u2019t\u2019ve gone much better at UFC 318 earlier this summer against Max Holloway. Despite losing to the BMF titleholder Holloway by unanimous decision in the UFC 318 main event, Poirier received the rare opportunity to fight for the last time just minutes away from his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>Just months removed from his final fight against Holloway, Poirier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/dustin-poirier\/dustin-poirier-shockingly-pinpoints-one-fight-end-retirement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appeared to creak the door open<\/a> to a potential return to combat sports if a boxing match was offered. More specifically, Poirier would accept a showdown with Nate Diaz in the ring if the opportunity were presented.<\/p>\n<p>Poirier raised eyebrows in a recent post to X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZuffa Boxing 12 rounds me and Nathaniel I\u2019d do it. Only 1 more fight I\u2019d take,\u201d Poirier said.<\/p>\n<p>Nate Diaz appears to decline Dustin Poirier\u2019s boxing fight offer in a social media post<\/p>\n<p>In a recent post to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NateDiaz209\/status\/1974026896070291903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">X<\/a>, Diaz appeared to respond to Poirier\u2019s boxing fight proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d beat your a\u2013 but ur not [allowed],\u201d Diaz posted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPS ur checked out already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just hours later, Poirier responded to Diaz\u2019s dismissal with a fiery series of tweets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDog I have a 8th grade education\u2026 allowed,\u201d Poirier began. \u201cMaybe a spelling bee competition vs. Nathaniel would be the hardest fight of both of our careers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diaz parted ways with the UFC following a win over Tony Ferguson in the UFC 279 main event. He\u2019s gone on to fight twice in the boxing ring, losing to Jake Paul in his debut before a decisive win over Jorge Masvidal in his return last year.<\/p>\n<p>Poirier has never appeared in the boxing ring during his combat sports career. At 36 years old, the UFC legend is still in his prime and could return for one more fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UFC superstar Nate Diaz took notice of Dustin Poirier\u2019s recent comeback teases for a potential boxing matchup with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,1299,638,24584,82,640],"class_list":{"0":"post-188094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-dustin-poirier","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-nate-diaz","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}