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29th March 2017
02:52pm BST

At this point, you must be thinking, 'What the hell? A handshake, an exchange of pleasantries and that's it?' Particularly when they had a common enemy in Miller at that point following the infamous brawl that went down at Strikeforce Nashville in 2010 that began when 'Mayhem' grabbed hold of the mic after Diaz's teammate Jake Shields defeated Dan Henderson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkuyFw9Zzq4 Fortunately, at the very last moment, just when you thought all hope was lost, Diaz saved the exchange."The first time I met Nate Diaz, I was in Denver. There was a UFC event there and I was in for fight week doing some stuff. I was scheduled to fight Jason 'Mayhem' Miller, we were in Denver promoting the fight. I was in the elevator and Nick Diaz - sorry, Nate Diaz - walks in. I’m like 'Hey Nate, how you doing' and we shake hands briefly."
“No conversation, it was just one of those elevator rides, there was a few other people in there so everyone is standing there, kind of looking at the ceiling or whatever, waiting for the ride to pass."
"And then the doors open. Nate gets out, and just as the doors are shutting, he leans back in and goes 'Oh, I forgot man. Fuck Miller!' and puts the two fingers up and walks off. And I just thought that was hilarious, it was great. I just thought 'Okay, I like this guy. He's cool.'"All is well.
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