
Share
23rd November 2016
08:57am GMT

"I was seeing things in that fight that I would have called and told him. I was seeing things that he wasn't seeing because I do these things and I know how they work out for me. It's almost like a formula and I'm like 'This is what you do!'
"Come the third and fourth round, I think if I had been there then we'd have been able to put it together and get that guy out of there.
"Gilbert Melendez was there and the thing is with Melendez, he's great and he's really smart. He knows what he's looking at but they're training partners so they're kind of opposites, stylistically, because he's more of a wrestler who goes on top.
"The things that Gilbert would tell him to do is what Gilbert would do but what I would tell him to do is more of what he would do.
"I'm not saying it wasn't helping having Gilbert there. Gilbert wasn't necessarily telling him to do the wrong stuff but he wasn't going to see the things I was seeing."
The UFC 202 main event will go down as one of the fights of the year as it descended into a back-and-forth, bloody brawl between two rivals who refused to give up.
But in terms of technique, Nick Diaz witnessed aspects of McGregor's game that his brother would have been able to exploit but, unfortunately, he wasn't even in the arena.
"I would have told him not to throw punches at that dude at all because he's going to sit there and watch you and try to counter everything," Diaz continued.
"So all you need to do is fake at him, flick at him and fuck with him. And that's how you do that.
"He went out there and just didn't have it together in the first round, and I think I could have clicked him into the right mindset."
The Diaz brothers' rivalry with the reigning UFC featherweight and lightweight champion looks set to continue, with Nate a very realistic potential next opponent for McGregor in the most anticipated rubber match in UFC history.
Nick, a former Strikeforce welterweight champion, has also accused McGregor of modelling his trash-talk on his own just over a week after attending the Dubliner's UFC 205 after-party in New York City.
"Conor McGregor has copied my model and mixed it with Floyd (Mayweather)," Diaz said.
"I don't know how to act like Floyd and be that money guy because I grew up broke and we just don't act that way.
"I don't want to act like a douche like that... I never put on an act, I was legitimately pissed off and for reasons.
"I never stepped out of line with anybody. I never do. People just start running their mouths at me and then I call them on it like 'Yeah motherfucker. You know I worked harder than you!'"
Catch up with the latest episode of Football Friday Live
Explore more on these topics: