Just like to say thanks to all my fans for all your support. Keep watching and I'm going to keep making exciting fights.
I asked for one of the tough guys in the division and I got it. Joe Stevenson got a title shot after fighting Kurt Pellegrino and Kurt won his last fight against a tough opponent so I'm happy about the fight.
My training is going good. All my training partners have fights coming up also so everyone is training hard. I'm training with Jake Shields, Gilbert Melendez, my brother Nick Diaz, Lucas Gomaza and Randy Spence. I kept training right after my fight and with the exception of a few 2 day weekends, I've been training 6 days a week most weeks. I've been working on everything like I always do - my wrestling, kickboxing, boxing, jiu jitsu.
I'm gonna keep training hard and putting on some good fights. Thanks again to all my fans for all their support.

Lucas Gamaza is an up and coming MMA fighter, and a friend and training partner of Nathan Diaz. We caught up with Lucas the day after he and his wife had a baby boy, and two days after he won his second MMA fight.

Q. Congrats on the baby boy!
A. It’s crazy, he came right after my fight like he was waiting for me, it was kinda cool.

Q. That’s some good timing! So not a bad weekend, you win a fight then have a baby boy.
A. Yeah, not bad at all (laughs).

Q. So how old were you when you started training in MMA?
A. I was probably about 19 when I started.

Q. How did you get involved in it?
A. Really, I used to watch a lot of the WWF when I was a kid, and when I ran out of the Wrestlemanias to rent, I started renting the Ultimate Fighting Championship. I was really pumped on that, and then a couple years later when I grew up a little bit, I saw Nick [Diaz] on a pay-per-view, and I was like “Holy crap, that dude’s from my neighborhood, man, I need to get a hold of this guy”. It took me a while just to build up the nerves to go in there but eventually I did, I just went in there on my own and started training. It was more or less just going to be a hobby, I didn’t really plan on getting good and turning it into a fighting career, but I’m playing the cards I’m dealt, and the opportunities that are in front of me now. So I just go with it.

Q. Did you know Nick when you saw him on TV?
A. No, actually I didn’t. He’s like a year older than me and we went to different high schools. He grew up in Morada and that’s a couple of miles away so we never really interacted, Nick or Nathan. Nathan’s my age, he’s like a week or two younger than me, and I didn’t really know him either. We knew a lot of the same people, but we never really ran into each other until we started training.

Q. How many hours a day do you usually spend training?

Discuss upcoming fights and possible opponents that Nathan could/should have.