Nate Diaz dismisses Islam Makhachev GOAT status: ‘I ain’t seen nothing from them’

Islam Makhachev is now at the top of the official UFC pound-for-pound list and one of the few fighters to win belts in two different weight classes. He’s tied with Anderson Silva for longest UFC win streak. But according to Nate Diaz, he’s still a newb that just got here, and he has a long way to go before being able to even sniff at GOAT status.

Asked on a Kick stream by N3ON who the MMA GOAT is, Diaz went with the classic option.

“Jon Jones, for sure,” Nate said. As for Islam Makhachev?

“They just throw s— out like that,” Diaz said of the Makhachev GOAT talk. “He’s been here for like two minutes, and he ain’t beat nobody that crazy. The best lightweight ever was B.J. Penn. So when we get s— like that, and you got whatever Islam did, and it’s like that don’t even match.”

“It’s not that he can’t be or won’t be, but you’re just gonna throw GOAT at the motherf—er when he just showed up on the scene?”

“They think I’m f—ing hating but that’s because we’ve got our differences,” Diaz continued. “There is s— I’ve seen that I’ll remember forever. That’s GOAT s—. I ain’t seen nothing from them mother—ers. I can’t even remember anything but getting bored in all them fools last fights. That name shouldn’t even be thrown at those guys.”

Asked about lightweight champ Ilia Topuria, Diaz dismissed him as GOAT but put him about Makhachev.

“I haven’t seen him do too much yet but I think [Topuria] is more of a complete fighter than [Islam],” he said.

One thing to remember when Nate says these things is he doesn’t really follow the sport all that much any more. When he arrived in Thailand to film a reality show with Jon Jones (leaving an hour later after a contestant tried to play-fight with him), the two shared their thoughts on the current UFC product.

“I barely watch it,” Jones said. “I barely watch the UFC these days unless it’s my weight class.”

“Cuz who are all these people? We don’t even know nobody,” Diaz added.

We can tell!