The Stockton native has shared the Octagon with the Irishman on two previous occasions but now finds himself backing his former rival in his war of words with the Paul brothers ...

Islam Makhachev has explained his run-in with Nate ... Dana [White, UFC president], and Dana came to me and said: ‘You are a troublemaker.’ I said: ‘Dana, it’s not my fault!’” Diaz ...