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Nate Diaz believes Floyd Mayweather showed the blueprint to beat Conor McGregor by letting him "gas" out.

McGregor has fought Diaz twice during his UFC career which both came in 2016 where he was first defeated by the Stockton native, before avenging the defeat later that year. The Irishman then opted to accept a boxing clash with ring legend Floyd Mayweather in the following year which became the second highest-selling pay-per-view in combat sports history.

Despite starting brightly, McGregor was simply outclassed by Mayweather who put his foot on the accelerator to close the show in the tenth round. Diaz believes his former two-time rival was helped to skip the line by fighting Mayweather before he suffered another defeat to Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018.

“Floyd Mayweather went and showed the blueprint to beat him, let him punch himself out and in the 10th round he beat his a**,” Diaz said of McGregor’s stoppage loss to Mayweather five years ago during an interview on the MMA Hour. “I did that right before him. Then he went and got choked out by Khabib. If he would’ve finished the trilogy with me, he would’ve learned how to not get