Nate Diaz believes the rousing success of UFC 196 earlier this month should officially put UFC President Dana White’s insistence he’s “not a needle-mover” to rest once and for all. In July 2014, White blasted Diaz (19-10 MMA, 14-8 UFC), who at the time was disgruntled with his contract, on a skid in the octagon and on the outs with UFC management, for his lack of drawing power. “He seems popular when you’re looking on (expletive) Twitter and some website,” White said nearly two years ago . “But the numbers, the real numbers, tell the truth. We know who moves needles and who doesn’t move needles. If Nate Diaz was a massive needle-mover, we’d have called him (to fight)
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Not a needle-mover? Nate Diaz says UFC 196′s success proved Dana White wrong – MMA Junkie