Daniel Cormier is done letting Nate Diaz throw shots without answering back. After Diaz went off on Theo Von’s podcast and dragged Cormier’s commentary, resume, and earnings, the UFC Hall of Famer came back swinging with his own response and did not try to keep it polite on his YouTube channel.
The latest round in the back-and-forth started while Diaz was promoting his upcoming MMA return against Mike Perry on May 16. This one clearly got under DC’s skin more than the old jabs, because his answer was not some quick one-liner. He went straight at Diaz’s record, his attitude toward losing, and the whole image he carries around as if nobody can tell him otherwise.
Cormier opened with the kind of comparison that was always going to make Diaz roll his eyes.
“You lost to 13 people in the sport that you chose. That, to me, is crazy,” Cormier said on his YouTube channel.
“There are so many people that cannot lose to 13 different people, especially in their athletic prime. Come on, that’s crazy. But you want to talk about me, Mr. Champion. I love that I was a champion. I love that I get to do commentary.”
It fits the same clash that has been driving this beef for a while. Diaz keeps leaning on myth, attitude, and name value, while Cormier keeps dragging the whole thing back to titles, records, and what actually happened in fights. That split feels even sharper now that Diaz is already trying to build heat for the Mike Perry matchup after choosing the Netflix bout instead of a UFC return against Conor McGregor and while fresh chatter keeps following the reported payday around his Mike Perry fight.
Cormier did not stop there.
“Somebody has got to check him. At this point, he might need a handler, because guess what? There’s a chance he goes and gets beat by Mike Perry,” he said.
Then he twisted the knife even deeper by circling back to one of Diaz’s roughest loss moments.
“I was there when they had to throw the towel in with Josh Thomson. He said, ‘You cried.’ Nate, maybe you should’ve cried more, then maybe we would think you cared about winning and losing. Maybe if you cried, Nathan, you wouldn’t be so OK with losing. Huh? Because I cried because losing to me was like death. That’s why I cried. You don’t cry. You go to the afterparty. You go hang out with your friends. You go get beat on a Saturday, and on Monday again you’re talking like you’re the best in the world.”
Daniel Cormier doubles down on calling Nate Diaz average
The sore spot here is still the same word. Diaz has been mad about the “average” label for a while, and Cormier was not interested in softening it just because Diaz got louder after the Theo Von appearance.
“You’re mad because somebody is talking about how you’re average,” Cormier said. “Reality is, you’re average. You’ve always been. But you made a lot of money. That’s good. But you’re average. You can talk all you want now, but you can’t change the fact that you can’t go back in time. We can’t go back in time and make you better than you were. So you keep punching above your head.”
Watch Cormier’s full response from his YouTube channel below.
He closed with one more shot that made it clear this is not some playful back-and-forth anymore.
“You won 21 fights, and you lost 13. To a guy like me, that seems impossible. Maybe it’s not. But to me, it seems impossible. And I will say it to your face.”
Diaz still has the star power, the cult following, and the kind of anti-establishment shine that keeps him relevant no matter what his record says. Cormier does not care about any of that mythology. He is looking at the numbers and saying the legend does not match the results. That is why this feud keeps getting uglier every time one of them opens his mouth, especially with Diaz still floating around major fight headlines and Cormier still willing to answer him publicly.
