Dana White explains why Jake Paul vs Nate Diaz can\u2019t happen yet YouTube: ESPN\/Instagram: Jake PaulUFC President Dana White has revealed why Jake Paul won\u2019t be squaring off with Nate Diaz this summer, but admits the fight could happen later down the line. Before it was confirmed that Jake Paul would be fighting Tommy Fury on August 6, plenty of fighters from across boxing and MMA threw their hat into the ring and wanted to challenge Jake. That lengthy list of challengers included the UFC\u2019s Nate Diaz, who took to Twitter to ask for his release from the MMA promotion so that he could fight Jake. Though, that clearly hasn\u2019t happened seeing as Jake is fighting Tommy and not Nate. Even still, it is a fight that has plenty of interest, given Jake and the Stockton native have traded plenty of verbal jabs over the years. And Dana White believes it may happen at some point, just not any time soon. The UFC President appeared on Jim Rome\u2019s \u2018Rome\u2019 talk show to preview UFC 276, when he was asked about the status of Nate and whether or not he\u2019d be getting his release to fight Jake. \u201cListen, he\u2019s (Nate) got one more fight with us and then he can go do whatever he wants to do,\u201d White said, before admitting he\u2019d have \u201cno idea\u201d as to how Jake vs Nate would play out inside the boxing ring. \u201cI have no idea. I could care less, to be honest with you. I don\u2019t (care),\u201d he added, before noting he understands why Nate is interested in fighting Jake. Though, the UFC boss expects Diaz to fulfill his obligations and have one final fight in the Octagon. Timestamp of 5:35 Seeing as White expects Diaz to fight in the UFC one time before potentially moving on to Jake, he can likely be ruled out as a potential replacement should Tommy Fury back out once again. If Jake wins, and Nate fights shortly after, the timelines could match up for a boxing fight between them before the end of the year. Though, we\u2019ll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dana White explains why Jake Paul vs Nate Diaz can\u2019t happen yet YouTube: ESPN\/Instagram: Jake PaulUFC President Dana White has revealed why Jake Paul won\u2019t be squaring off with Nate Diaz this summer, but admits the fight could happen later down the line. Before it was confirmed that Jake Paul would be fighting Tommy Fury […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}