Earlier this week Nate Diaz aimed some verbal blows at Daniel Cormier and now the former two-division champion has taken the chance to fire back at him in no uncertain terms.

These two have had words before, but it seems the feud has been reignited after Diaz took offense that Cormier had recently claimed that he was excited for Diaz’s upcoming fight with Mike Perry for the entertainment value, but doesn’t think they are as good as the UFC’s top talents.

“What the f*ck happened in your career then? Why are you an analyst now, Mr. Know-It-All?” Diaz said on Theo Von’s ‘This Past Weekend’ podcast earlier this week. “Talking about what I should have done, when I made more money than you ever made in your whole career at any fight, Mr. Champion. Those are the kind of motherf*ckers that need their asses beat. Annoys the f*ck out of me. This dude is boring as sh*t. I’ve never seen a single DC fight in my career, except for when I was on the same card as him one time.

“And he was picking up the dude, walking around like he just owned him, and then I looked back at the screen, and he was knocked out on his ass. That’s the only DC fight I ever saw. And he wants to talk about what I should do and how I’m not a good fighter. I’m like, ‘Are you mad because you were the champion, and when I was nowhere near champion, I got paid way more money than you?’ That’s a f*cking bitter little b*tch who’s analyzing fights. You’re a great wrestler, DC, but you can’t fight for sh*t. You’re a f*cking big ol’ p*ssy. Remember when he cried? ‘Nate Diaz’s record sucks.’ You cried!”

Cormier has since responded on his YouTube channel.

“Nate Diaz, I think is reacting to what I said about him and Mike Perry’s fight and saying that I was excited about it because I know exactly what it is,” Cormier said. “He said we pretend to know everything when in reality we don’t, I don’t know everything. I don’t know everything about fighting but what my job is to try to educate people who may not be as close to it as I am in terms of what fighting looks like inside of the octagon. We all think that we watch it and we all think we know what we’re doing when in reality, there is some details inside of fighting that is just known at a different level. That’s it. That’s my job. That’s my job to do.

“Nate clearly doesn’t like when we do that job. I’m talking me, Dominick Cruz, Michael Bisping, Paul Felder, all these different people.”

Cormier went on to compare his own 22-3 (+1nc) record with Diaz’s 21-13 career run, making a point to focus in on the amount of fights they’ve lost over the years.

“Let’s do that for a second. Let’s compare us,” Cormier said. “Jon Jones. Stipe Miocic. That’s it [the only fighters I lost too].

“Koji Oishi, Hermes Franca, Clay Guida, Joe Stevenson, Gray Maynard, Rory MacDonald, Benson Henderson, Josh Thomson, [Rafael] dos Anjos, Conor McGregor, [Jorge] Masvidal, Leon Edwards. That’s 13 times. That’s 13 times to 13 people.

“This is mine. This is who I lost to — two people. I, in my life, I’m telling you for me, it’s hard for me to fathom losing to 13 people in the sport that you chose and when I lost those fights, I was in my mid-to-late 30s and two dudes were able to get me. You lost to 13 people. You were losing fights in your 20s. You were in your absolute athletic prime, in the sport that you chose, and you got beat multiple times by all these people. I was being respectful.

“But you lost to 13 people. In the sport that you chose! That to me is crazy! I said yesterday that’s impossible. Somebody corrected me and said, no it’s not impossible. You can lose that many times.”

Not done there, the former light-heavyweight and heavyweight champion went on to brand former TUF season 5 winner Diaz as being an ‘average’ fighter.

“You’re up here acting like you’re mad because somebody is talking about how you’re average,” Cormier continued. “The reality is you’re average. You’ve always been. But you made a lot of money. That’s good! But you’re average. You can talk all you want now but it will never change the fact that you cannot go back in time, we can’t go back in time and make you better than you were.

“So you keep punching above your head. You punch at Khabib [Nurmagomedov]. Not the same. Khabib should have never paid attention to you. You were never going to get there. You punch at Justin Gaethje. You punch at my man Dustin Poirier. You’re punching above your head. All these dudes had titles. Let it go.”

DC also addressed the issue of Diaz calling him out for crying after a loss, but Cormier says that just meant he cared more than him about being defeated.

“Nate, maybe you should have cried more and then maybe we would think you care about winning and losing,” Cormier said. “Maybe if you cried, Nathan, you wouldn’t be so OK with losing. Because I cried because losing to me was like death. That’s why I cried.

“You don’t cry. You go to the afterparty, you go hang out with your friends. You get beat on a Saturday, on Monday you’re talking again like you’re the best in the world. Maybe if you cried, we would think that you cared and winning and losing really mattered because I’m telling you, it doesn’t feel like it when it comes to you.”

Cormier then concluded by saying he didn’t plan on having a street fight with Diaz, but was more than willing to say everything he’s said to his face if they cross paths.

“I hate when I’ve got to do this,” Cormier said. “Again, I don’t dislike Nate Diaz but that’s my real feelings. That’s how I feel about Nate and I would tell Nate the same thing to his face. Guess what? I’m not going to jump around and act like I’m going to fight him in the street and have an entourage of people jumping and screaming, throwing stuff. I’m not doing all that.

“But if you ask me what I feel about him and his career in my face, I will tell him you’re average. Because that’s exactly what you were. You won 21 fights and lost 13. To a guy like me, that seems impossible. Maybe it’s not but to me, it seems impossible.”