Video & Pics: McGregor Arrives Late, Has Water Bottle-Flinging Fracas with Nate Diaz

As much as things in the world change, the more they stay the same. In the wacky world of combat sports, the craziest possible things have happened ever since promoters began propping their fighters up to the media and at Wednesday’s final pre-fight press conference for UFC 202 (current odds), the afternoon stayed on that course. With light heavyweights Glover Teixeira and Anthony Johnson playing second fiddle to Nate Diaz and the fashionably late Conor McGregor, the presser was cut short after the main event combatants engaged in a shouting match that eventually led to Ultimate Fighting Championship-brand water bottles being flung into the air like grenades. All hell broke loose after Diaz, who had been answering the assembled press’s questions, became irritated by the Irishman’s bold claims of victory and stormed off the dais. Diaz scoffed at the repeated questions of being the bigger man against McGregor when the two fought in a hastily-arranged main event at UFC 196 several months ago. “It’s not that big of a weight advantage,” Diaz remarked. “I don’t know, but he was talking about going up and knocking out Robbie Lawler at 170 but all of a sudden I’ve got 30 pounds him. Everybody’s been making excuses. I don’t know how all of a sudden I became …

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