Nate Diaz claims Islam Makhachev is lying over water bottle incident at UFC 311 presser 

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Nate Diaz doesn’t understand how he got all mixed up in some kind of heated rivalry with UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev.

This past December at the UFC 311 pre-fight press conference, Diaz and Makhachev were involved in a brief backstage altercation where members from their respective teams threw water bottles at each other before security intervened to ensure the situation didn’t escalate. Makhachev later claimed that the whole ordeal started...