Nate Diaz to keep Mike Perry build real, unlike UFC's Chimaev-Strickland

Fake beef isn't something Nate Diaz is interested in selling with Mike Perry.

The pair of former UFC stars will meet inside the cage at MVP MMA 1, which goes down Saturday at Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif. The Netflix-broadcast event features familiar names, but one of the most interesting matchups is between Diaz and Perry. Both used their names well in the combat sports space since exiting the UFC, with Diaz landing boxing matches against Jake Paul and Jorge Masvidal, while Perry (who also boxed Paul) became BKFC's King of Violence in bareknuckle boxing.

Both have a bad boy persona, but that doesn't mean there's any actual heat between them.

At UFC 328, Khamzat Chimaev and Sean Strickland built their middleweight title fight main event with all sorts of ugly pre-fight talk, which even included threats of gun violence. Perry took notice and asked Diaz what it would take to get more people interested in their bout.

"How are we gonna get 'em – did you watch Khamzat vs. Strickland last night?" Perry asked Diaz on "MVP Face 2 Face." "(I ask) because I was motivated by it. Khamzat and Strickland talked a lot of sh*t before the fight. They said after they sold the fight. Before they even started the fight, they're touching gloves. They were ready to perform. I get wanting to have fun, I don't want to bash on anybody who's..."

That's where Diaz interjected, letting it be known that he wants no part of building a fight with fake heat. Chimaev and Strickland admitted their pre-fight hate was fake, and Diaz would rather keep it real instead of tricking the fans.

"Yeah, they were faking the funk," Diaz said. " And they were f*cking acting like crazy and talking all this sh*t to each other and then hugging and showing love the whole fight like some bitches. Fake f*cking puppets. I'm f*cking cool off that sh*t. I got a fight with this dude, he's most violent motherf*cker. He knocked out f*cking middleweight (Luke) Rockhold, and f*cking (Jeremy) Stephens, and beat a lot of good people, doing boss sh*t on the outside (of the UFC).

"I was already OK with him. We're not f*cking friends or anything like that, but I'm not gonna f*cking play around and make no fake, artificial beef with you. I think you're great. I think what you're doing is great. I think you're violent as f*ck, and mean and all that sh*t. I came here to fight, train hard, win and f*ck your sh*t up, just like I know you're planning on f*cking my sh*t up – and I'm not gonna put no artificial beef out there, OK?"