Nate Diaz: Daily Routine

On just 11 days’ notice, Nate Diaz shocked the world and submitted Conor McGregor — here’s how he stays ready.

When Nate Diaz got the call for the biggest fight of his life, headlining against Conor McGregor at UFC 196 after lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos dropped out from a broken foot, he wasn’t training for a triathlon like Dana White kept saying to the media, but rather, pounding tequilas on a beach in Cabo.

It didn’t really matter though. At the end of the day, the Stock native was ready to go whatever the situation. Like he wrote on Instagram a few days after the fight “#alwaysreadyforwar in season or not.”

Heading into UFC 196, Diaz was a huge underdog. For good reason. McGregor was coming off one of the greatest knockouts in MMA history, when he slept the pound-for-pound king, Jose Aldo, in a record 13-seconds, and was riding an undefeated UFC record against names like Chad Mendes, Dustin Poirier and Max Holloway.

Diaz, on the other hand, had gone 3-3 in the past few years, and was coming into the fight on 11 days notice. Most people expected McGregor to make quick work of Diaz and move onto his lightweight title challenge.