{"id":674157,"date":"2026-05-16T20:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/674157\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T20:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T20:50:20","slug":"benson-henderson-on-nate-diaz-vs-mike-perry-i-would-pay-money-to-watch-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/674157\/","title":{"rendered":"Benson Henderson on Nate Diaz vs. Mike Perry: &#8220;I would pay money to watch that&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Diaz versus Mike Perry will broadcast on Netflix this Saturday and a fighter who beat Diaz in a UFC title bout has offered his thoughts on this MVP MMA 1 contest. One of Henderson\u2019s big career performances came in his Nate Diaz fight where \u2018Bendo\u2019 successfully defended his UFC lightweight crown.<\/p>\n<p>When asked for his thoughts on that Nate Diaz vs. Mike Perry fight for MVP MMA 1 on Netflix fight that\u2019s coming up this weekend as of this recording Henderson said [via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/loma-lookboonmee\/ufc-perths-loma-lookboonmee-on-the-real-battle-that-awaits-her-in-australia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bowks Talking Bouts<\/a>],<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that Nate [Diaz] versus Mike Perry, I think that\u2019s going to be a good fight. I think it\u2019ll be a fun fight to watch. Me as a fan, that\u2019s a fight I would actually pay money to watch. I wouldn\u2019t pay a whole lot of money to watch a lot of other fights, but Nate against Mike, that\u2019s such a dynamic difference of styles. Like it could be a clash. I would pay money to watch that fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nate Diaz urges fighters to navigate free agency<\/p>\n<p>Benson Henderson made big waves years ago with his free agent maneuvering that lead him into a big contractual agreement with Bellator MMA and Nate Diaz embodies that kind of free agency navigation today. After having boxing bouts with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/boxing-news\/jake-paul-boxing-news\/jake-paul-does-bad-bunny-backtrack-after-backlash-from-super-bowl-comments\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Paul<\/a> and Jorge Masvidal with a return to MMA set to transpire in the coming hours, Diaz is wanting to let fighters know that they should get a lay of the land but without casting aspersions at the UFC.<\/p>\n<p>With the backdrop of people theorizing that a Conor McGregor trilogy might be booked with the Stockton native also mentioning the UFC had some loose talks with him, albeit not specifically mapping out a rubber match with \u2018The Notorious\u2019, Diaz said [via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/latest-news\/488352\/nate-diaz-did-too-much-to-get-out-of-ufc-to-just-go-back-without-proper-incentive-advises-fighters-to-test-free-agency-like-he-did\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Fighting<\/a>],<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just weighing out my options and I thought it was the best option for the time, for the moment. He\u2019s the biggest name outside the UFC doing things, like how I\u2019m trying to do. That\u2019s what fighters should be doing and we can set an example like I was already trying to do but it takes two to tango and there\u2019s not much out there. Not to mention, they got the Netflix combined with it so that\u2019s a two-for-one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nate Diaz versus Mike Perry will broadcast on Netflix this Saturday and a fighter who beat Diaz in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[80740,49,48,641,22332,638,247603,24584,211426,82],"class_list":["post-674157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-benson-henderson","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mike-perry","tag-mma","tag-mvp-mma-1","tag-nate-diaz","tag-netflix-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674157","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=674157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}