Nate Diaz has already exited a Russian actuality present he was filming alongside Jon Jones in Thailand.
The UFC veteran traveled there to movie an Final Fighter kind sequence the place he was teaching alongside Jones however it didn’t take lengthy for mayhem to erupt, which resulted in Diaz leaving the present and flying again residence to California. Diaz’s longtime buddy and teammate Jake Shields was additionally there filming the present and he documented the madness because it occurred earlier than manufacturing had actually even began.
Extra sources confirmed to MMA Combating on Wednesday that Diaz left the present and returned residence after an insane brawl broke out between a number of the opponents on the present and members of Diaz’s workforce.
Diaz’s representatives had been unavailable for touch upon the state of affairs.
In a video posted to YouTube, Shields said that the entire manufacturing was a large number from the time they first arrived in Thailand, however the true melee occurred after one of many fighters bought in Diaz’s face throughout an introduction.
The video Shields offered reveals the Russian fighter first talking to Jones after which approaching Diaz. It seems that the fighter tries to seize Diaz and Diaz instantly shrugs him off.
The state of affairs escalates moments later with Diaz and the fighter getting right into a bodily altercation with Shields saying “Nate went and slapped him.” The altercation then absolutely erupts after a member of Diaz’s workforce punches the fighter.
Shields claims that relatively than eradicating the Russian fighter from the present, he was allowed to return again into the identical room the place one other melee broke out. This time, Shields says he bought concerned and tackled the fighter who initially bought into the altercation with Diaz.
“Proper after I began to go off on him, I bought simply blitzed from the aspect,” Shields stated. “Not the place the fighters had been, a few guys simply began blitzing me, which to me appeared like they had been crew working there, not fighters as a result of the fighters had been within the chairs.
“To me it was very clear that it was the workers and the employees. That was a kind of moments the place’s like I higher diffuse the state of affairs.”
After the brawl bought damaged up, Shields says the “chaos” continued and that led to all of Diaz’s workforce deciding to vacate the premises and go away the present.
Finally, Shields claims the manufacturing workforce tried to determine a method to get Diaz and his workforce to return to the present however by that time, all people concerned was already checked out and able to return residence.
“Why are we going to return and movie a present — it’s one factor to be preventing the fighters, that’s why I went on the market with Nate, I believed it was a risk a few of these fighters will attempt to take a look at him — however when you may have probably the crew hitting you, too it’s like no, f*ck that,” Shields stated.
A number of days later, Diaz and his total workforce flew again residence to California and the fact present experiment in Thailand got here to an abrupt finish.
