DANA WHITE ADMITS NATE DIAZ & JAKE PAUL SHOULD FIGHT NEXT: “THAT MAKES SENSE”

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WHAT HAPPENED?

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DANA WHITE ADMITS NATE DIAZ & JAKE PAUL SHOULD FIGHT NEXT: “THAT MAKES SENSE”

WHAT HAPPENED?

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Dealing with Nate is always… interesting. I don’t know what we’re gonna do.I like Nate but let’s be honest, Nate’s won one fight in the last five or six years.

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When these guys get into these positions, guys that have been with us for a long time, you want to be fair to everybody, you want to do the right things. Nate Diaz isn’t going to come in and fight Kamaru Usman. He probably should go on and fight Jake Paul. That’s a fight that makes sense.