Welcome to your belated, truncated, abbreviated, but hopefully still appreciated Sunday MMA Quick Hits! Nick Diaz, Nate Diaz, and Elon Musk news is on deck. Let’s go!
Elon Musk says cage fight with Mark Zuckerberg to stream on Twitter X
Elon Musk continues to push a potential mixed martial arts bout with Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, despite how much we wish he wouldn’t. The fight, which is highly unlikely to ever happen and even less likely to be any good, has been talked about for weeks now. Fuelled in part by Zuckerberg competing in jiu-jitsu, and Musk, who heads up Tesla, Space X, The Boring Company, and now Twitter, never shutting up about it.
The latest update: Musk claims the event will stream on X with the proceeds going to charity.
Zuck v Musk fight will be live-streamed on 𝕏.
All proceeds will go to charity for veterans.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2023
The only way this becomes even mildly entertaining is if Zuck turns out to be an imposter, WWE style, then someone runs in and cracks Musk with a chair. And even that might not be enough to get us to tune in.
Nate Diaz willing to fight Jake or Logan Paul
The Diaz brothers have never been ones to turn down fights. So after Nate Diaz dropped a decision against Jake Paul on Saturday, brother Nick is willing to step up and fight for the family’s honor.
Nick Diaz wants into the ring following his brother's fight against Jake Paul. #PaulDiaz pic.twitter.com/Jt9O4Mfd2k
— Cageside Press (@Cagesidepress) August 6, 2023
“I’m a lot better than both of these guys that are out there. I’d love to entertain the idea of moving on in on whoever they’ve got for me. So if they want to do Round 2 [versus Jake], if [Nate] ain’t going to do it, I’ll take it. [Jake’s] got an older brother too, so don’t forget about the one and only.”
So there you have it. Nick Diaz is down to face either Jake Paul or Logan Paul. Yay?
For everyone other than Jake Paul, this is a terrible idea. Logan is under contract to the WWE, and if your name isn’t Brock Lesnar, you probably aren’t moonlighting in combat sports. As for Jake, he’s built his business model off beating aging, undersized mixed martial artists in a boxing ring. That includes Ben Askren (welterweight, off hip surgery and best known as a wrestler), Tyron Woodley (welterweight, best known as a wrestler with some power), Anderson Silva (a middleweight who can actually box, but was 47), and Nate Diaz (best known as a lightweight turned welterweight). Not one of them come close to Paul’s actual size, and all are handicapped in boxing, where they’re unable to use their full skill set.
So let’s add Nick Diaz, who looked wildly out of place in his last fight opposite Robbie Lawler?
Nate Diaz wants Paul rematch, in any sport
Well, maybe not badminton. But Nate Diaz is down to rematch Jake Paul in MMA or boxing, it seems.
“Right now we’re going to go home and we’re going to talk about it, and we’re going to figure out whether we want to do MMA or boxing, and then we’ll see what they want to do,” Diaz said (h/t MMA Fighting) following Saturday’s boxing match, which saw Paul win a decision. “They said they wanted to do the PFL thing, and I think that if we want to do that, we’re going to have to co-promote and do Real Fight vs. PFL, and I’m with that. But my goal is to get a rematch in any art.”
“We’re going to see what happens with him, see if he really wants to do that,” Diaz added. “If not, I’ll be back in this hunting him down too. Either way is fine with me.”
