Anthony Joshua has been called out four weeks before returning to the ring against UFC legend Francis Ngannou, who barely lost to Tyson Fury last year.

Nate Diaz has called out Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury six months after being defeated by Jake Paul in his boxing debut. The long-time UFC fighter swapped sports last summer but lost by unanimous decision after being knocked down in the fifth round.

Diaz, 38, now wants a ‘real fight’ against anyone, including the top two British heavyweights. The Californian is adamant that he would ‘f*** up’ both despite coming in considerably undersized compared to the pair.

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He fought Paul at a 185lbs cruiserweight catchweight, standing at 6ft with a 76in reach. In these hypothetical fights, Diaz would give up six and nine inches in height to Joshua and Fury respectively, while weighing between 50 and 90 lbs less.

But the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu third-degree black belt is undeterred by a lack of size. With two decades of fight experience behind him, Diaz believes he is a match for anyone.

“I’ll f*** up Tyson Fury. I’ll f*** up Anthony Joshua,” he told the American streamer Sneako. “All these motherf*****s in a real fight, like, they don’t stand a chance.

“And then it’s like, we’ve got, everybody’s going on boxing [Floyd] Mayweather. We’re playing a little game,” Diaz remarked regarding the rumours dating back to 2022 of fighting his fellow American.

He continued: “I don’t like being labelled an ‘MMA fighter’. I’m a boxer. I’m a Jiu-Jitsu guy. I’m a kickboxer. I don’t like any of the one-dimensional things by itself anyway. I like it all.”

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But almost 18 months after leaving the UFC, he remains a free agent but was open to fighting at UFC 300 in April. “I wanted to, but I don’t think so,” Diaz added.

“I think I wanna do boxing, fight another fighter. I could fight anybody in the world right now, but no one can fight me. Everybody’s locked down to organisations, locked down to the UFC, PFL.”

He has previously touted the prospect of fighting at the anniversary event on social media. “UFC 300 would be tight, but there’s nobody to fight,” he posted on X late last year.

Diaz was due to face Conor McGregor in a rematch from UFC 196, but UFC president Dana White pulled his opponent from the card for refusing to fly to Las Vegas for promotional activities.

They later fought at UFC 202, which McGregor won by a majority decision. Diaz reminisced on that fight late last month by sharing a photo pre-fight photo with the caption: “Real war,” hinting at the prospect of a trilogy fight at UFC 300.

He also teased rematching Leon Edwards, who he lost to in his penultimate UFC fight, at the event late on Christmas Day, by sharing a gif from the first fight with the comment: “300”.

UFC LEGEND Nate Diaz has claimed he would “f*** up” Tyson Fury or Anthony Joshua in a “real fight”.

Diaz, 38, threw his hat into the crossover boxing game last year, when he lost to YouTuber Jake Paul in a fifth round defeat.

The UFC star is frustrated by boxing as a sport, and feels that MMA leads to a more realistic representation of how two people would deal with a real fight.

He feels he would take both stars in a street fight, despite weighing a whopping thirty kilograms less than them.

He’s also considerably smaller than both men, measuring six feet in height, with Joshua 6’6″ and Tyson Fury a whopping 6’9″.

While many MMA stars have made the crossover into boxing, only a handful of boxers have gone the other way.

Francis Ngannou recently boxed Tyson Fury and gave a good account of himself, downing the WBC heavyweight champion in the third round.

Diaz told Sneako via The Mirror: “I’ll f*** up Tyson Fury. I’ll f*** up Anthony Joshua. All these motherf****rs in a real fight, they don’t stand a chance.

“It’s like, we’ve got, everybody’s going on boxing [Floyd] Mayweather. We’re playing a little game… I don’t like being like, labelled as an ‘MMA fighter’.

“I’m a boxer. I’m a Jiu-Jitsu guy. I’m a kickboxer. I don’t like any of the one-dimensional things by itself anyway. I like it all.”

Fury refused to rule out an MMA match with Ngannou during the buildup to their boxing match last October, with many assuming that Ngannou would make light work of the boxer in that form of bout.

Joshua, meanwhile, has shown little interest in fighting in an MMA bout when asked about the prospect.

He takes on Ngannou in March, with the winner assumed to be fighting the winner of Fury Vs Oleksandr Usyk.

Diaz is a free-agent after being let go by the UFC in September 2022, he admitted that he wanted to be a part of UFC 300 but was not called up for the event.

On rumours linking him with a boxing match against former UFC rival Jorge Masvidal, Diaz said: “I think I wanna do boxing, fight another fighter. I could fight anybody in the world right now, but no one can fight me.

“Everybody’s locked down to organisations, locked down to the UFC, PFL.”