A current pattern in fight sports activities sees influencers asking deliberately upsetting inquiries to skilled fighters with the intention to fire up social media.
The most recent instance got here in the course of the press convention for Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal’s boxing match this Saturday the place a streamer named “N3on” bought maintain of the mic.
He proceeded to ask Diaz whether or not he was going to retire when he will get knocked out on Saturday night time, which clearly didn’t go down properly with the Stockton fighter.
The streamer’s title could ring a bell for struggle followers after he was prevented from attending UFC 296 in December final 12 months following feedback on-line about how he would confront Donald Trump on the occasion.
‘Large’ John McCarthy Says N3on Is Fortunate Nate Diaz Didn’t Go Proper At Him After Insulting Query
On a current episode of the Weighing In podcast, “Large” John McCarthy gave his response to the clip of N3on trying to antagonise Diaz on the press convention.
Diaz did maintain his personal and repeatedly responded with expletives earlier than his crew appeared to pursue the streamer as soon as the press convention had completed, as proven within the video under.
McCarthy expressed his dislike of this pattern that retains coming again round, expressing that N3on must be fortunate that Diaz didn’t simply determine to leap off the stage and deal with it proper then and there.
“The place is it {that a} man that has by no means been in a struggle in his life desires to be a smarta** with a man who’s an actual fighter, he has to sit down up there, he has to take heed to your b******* and also you need to sit there and say, ‘Are you gonna retire once you get knocked out this Saturday night time?’
“It’s like, do you assume possibly, do you assume simply possibly that’s a f****** douchebag factor to say to a man that’s been by means of wars all through his profession and also you’ve by no means accomplished a f****** factor?”
McCarthy then continued, warning streamers like N3on who push their luck in opposition to actual fighters that they could find yourself biting off extra bother than they will chew.
“It’s at all times these guys that they’ll by no means f****** do something they usually’ll sit there and say one thing like, ‘You’re gonna get knocked out, you gonna retire once you do’. It’s like, homebody, you’re fortunate he doesn’t leap over that desk and simply drop kick you into the f****** third row and let your tooth turn into f****** chicklets.”
