Nate Diaz thinks Islam Makhachev is a really fortunate man after he retained his light-weight title with a unanimous choice win over Alexander Volkanovski.

‘The Nice’ hoped to observe within the footsteps of Conor McGregor, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes and Henry Cejudo by changing into a dual-weight champion at UFC 284.

Nonetheless, the chances have been stacked in opposition to him in Perth as he confronted a a lot greater opponent who eased by Charles Oliveira at UFC 280 in October to win the vacant 155lb belt.

Volkanovski fought an ideal combat, dropped his opponent a number of occasions and nearly discovered a end on the finish of the fifth and last spherical, but it surely wasn’t sufficient.

Makhachev scored knockdowns of his personal, had massive success along with his wrestling and even reduce his opponent earlier than their supremely shut combat went to the choose’s scorecards.

UFC legend Nate Diaz was satisfied that Volkanovski had achieved sufficient to safe a historic win in entrance of his fellow Australians and tweeted him a congratulatory message earlier than the scorecards had been learn out.

A couple of minutes later, he returned to social media to specific his shock at the outcome moving into Makhachev’s favour (48-47, 48-47 and 49-46) and claimed he acquired ‘whooped’ by the UFC’s pound-for-pound finest fighter.

Diaz wrote: “Yeah proper Islam acquired his a** whooped”

The MMA icon who just lately left the UFC wasn’t the one one that thought Volkanovski was laborious achieved by as followers watching UFC 284 on the RAC Area booed the choice and the phrase ‘theft’ started to development on Twitter.

Nonetheless, Volkanovski stored it stylish throughout his post-fight interview with Michael Bisping as he requested the followers to applaud his opponent earlier than vowing to return to make one other run on the light-weight title sooner or later.

The 33-year-old stated: “Simply because I pulled up brief tonight, that doesn’t change a factor.

“I’m a person of my phrase. I’ll be again within the light-weight division, however for now, let me go settle this featherweight choice. Congrats to Yair [Rodriguez], let’s go!”

Yair Rodriguez picked up the interim featherweight title with a second-round submission win over Josh Emmett within the UFC 284 co-main occasion.

He’ll now face Volkanovski in a unification combat earlier than the Aussie seems to avenge his loss to Makhachev who’s simply the second man – after Corey Nelson – to get the higher of him in MMA