


The man who got dropped by former UFC star Nate Diaz following a Misfits Boxing event in New Orleans on Friday vowed to get his revenge in a video showing the bloody head injury he sustained in the incident.
Multiple reports have identified Rodney Petersen — a TikTok star who has gained popularity for resembling YouTuber Logan Paul — as the man who Diaz choked out in the street.
Peterson said he wasn’t sure what started the street fight with Diaz and that the former welterweight star caught him off guard in a now-viral video with content creator and gamer Overflow.
“So, I don’t know what the hell I did to Nate Diaz,” Peterson, who appeared to have blood smeared across his neck, said in the video posted by Overflow on Twitter.
“But I tell you what, I’m going to knock him the f–k out when I know he’s coming. You caught me off-guard dude. What’d you think I was Logan?”
It’s unclear if Peterson was seriously injured in the scuffle.
“Don’t worry Logan Paul is alive after Nate Diaz chokes him out,” Overflow wrote on Twitter. “I got him to the hospital.”
Prior to the incident, Diaz, 38, had just attended a boxing card Friday night at the XULA Convention Center to support teammate Chris Avila, who defeated Paul Bamba.
Videos on social media captured the street brawl, during which Diaz appeared to put Peterson in a guillotine choke, leaving him out cold and lying in the street.
Diaz is scheduled to fight Logan’s younger brother, Jake Paul, in August.
The Paul brothers spoofed the Diaz incident in a separate video on Twitter, with Jake calling his future opponent a “homeless Stockton man.”
In a separate video, UFC President Dana White questioned if it was Logan that Diaz knocked out, according to the Daily Mail — adding that Diaz is “going to get sued like a motherf–ker.”
Earlier in the night, Diaz was involved in a separate scuffle inside the Misfits Boxing event when he threw a water bottle at reality TV star and boxer Chase DeMoor.
“Nate Diaz decided to get mad and throw a prime bottle on me, that’s cute bro,” DeMoor tweeted Friday night.
“Just next time don’t run. And stop spending your nights in the club trying to use your dried up MMA career to pull college girls while you’re out in New Orleans.”
DeMoor, who fought Stevie Knight in the event, was poised to secure a knockout victory but lost by disqualification when he punched his opponent several times while down.
Knight’s team stormed the ring, which led to a chaotic scene inside the ropes as while officials tried to separate everyone.
“I let the moment get the best of me, I truly am sorry,” Demoor wrote on Twitter after the bout.
Diaz last fought in a pro bout in September when he defeated Tony Ferguson at UFC 279.