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Nate Diaz responded to the critics who said that he should retire from MMA following his loss to Mike Perry at MVP MMA: Rousey vs. Carano.<\/p>\n
Diaz was stopped at the end of the second round by Perry after the cuts he received to his face caused blood to leak into his eyes<\/a>, leading to vision loss and forcing his corner to call a stoppage to the bout. For the 41-year-old Diaz, this was a tough loss for him as he made his return to MMA nearly four years after he last competed in the sport against Tony Ferguson at UFC<\/a> 279. After a pit stop in professional boxing, Diaz returned to the steel cage against Perry, but the fight did not go as he wanted it to, with Perry winning the fight by TKO.<\/p>\n Now, critics are calling for Diaz to retire.<\/p>\n Nate Diaz Responds to His Critics<\/p>\n Speaking to reporters after MVP MMA concluded, Diaz responded to the critics who said that he should retire from the sport following this brutal loss to Perry.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople will be like, \u2018You lost, you should hang them up.\u2019 Isn\u2019t this the most violent (expletive) who just knocked out (expletive) middleweight champion Luke Rockhold and Jeremy Stephens?\u201d Diaz said. \u201cSo, \u2018You should hang them up.\u2019 I just fought the most violent (expletive) right there. Maybe I just needed to run a little harder next time and get the job done. \u2018You should hang them up.\u2019 Maybe I don\u2019t fight the most violent, maybe I fight the second-most violent.\u201d<\/p>\n Nate Diaz Open to Mike Perry Rematch<\/p>\n After MVP MMA<\/a>, Diaz and Perry both expressed interest in a rematch. Despite Perry clearly being the superior fighter of the two in Saturday\u2019s contest, there was a bit of a question mark surrounding the result since it ended due to a cut stoppage and not due to a true knockout. So it does make some sense that both fighters would be interested in fighting again, especially since they were both paid very well for this first fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n MVP MMA has already stated they are interested in promoting a second event, potentially in Sacramento, California, which is close to Diaz\u2019s hometown of Stockton. If that\u2019s the plan, then you can see why both of these fighters want to scrap again<\/a>, especially given the big paydays.<\/p>\n You might think that Diaz should step away from the sport after taking so much damage against Perry, but he doesn\u2019t have any interest in doing so. Say what you want about Diaz, but he is a legend of the sport, and he deserves to go out on his own terms. So, if he wants to keep fighting and put his body and his brain on the line, that\u2019s up to him. When he\u2019s ready to hang them up, he\u2019ll be the first to let the fans know. But for now, he wants to keep competing, and he\u2019s hoping that he gets the chance to run this back with Perry and show the cut stoppage didn\u2019t tell the true tale of the fight.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tAdam Martin<\/a> Adam Martin is a sports journalist with over 15 years of experience. He has a speciality in MMA, while also covering the Big 4 Sports. Adam is currently a contributor to Heavy.com, with previous experience working for The Toronto Star, Sportsnet, theScore, Bookies, BJPenn.com, and MMAOddsbreaker.com. More about Adam Martin<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nate Diaz responded to the critics who said that he should retire from MMA following his loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-675747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675747","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=675747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}