Brandon Royval exonerates Nate Diaz from starting water bottle fight at UFC 310

A backstage altercation ahead of UFC 310 landed Nate Diaz in the headlines for all the wrong reasons after he got into a water bottle fight with members of a team led by UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev.

While the fighters never actually traded blows, Diaz and the Russians were launching water bottles at each other following a press conference featuring Makhachev and his longtime friend and teammate Umar Nurmagomedov. Now it’s...