Joe Rogan leaks Nate Diaz's pay for Netflix MMA card and drops Conor McGregor theory

UFC commentator Joe Rogan has revealed how much Nate Diaz is being paid for his return to MMA on a stacked Netflix card in May.

Diaz' last fight inside the Octagon came back in 2022 when he beat Tony Ferguson via submission at UFC 279.

A free agent, he dabbled into boxing with bouts against Jake Paul and Jorge Masvidal but he will be back in his favoured environment on 16 May when he squares off against fellow former UFC fighter Mike Perry.

The pair are part of a mammoth MMA event Netflix and Paul's Most Valuable Promotions are putting on at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, where Ronda Rousey will lock horns with Gina Carano in the main event.

The full card has still not been announced in full but former UFC heavyweight Francis Ngannou is also in action, returning to MMA to take on Philipe Lins in a five-round heavyweight encounter.

Diaz and Perry meet in a five five-minute rounds clash in the welterweight division and Rogan believes the Stockton fighter is being paid extremely well.

On his Joe Rogan Experience show, the 58-year-old asked former UFC fighter Brendan Schaub what he had heard regarding Diaz's pay packet.

Schaub said he heard that Diaz is to receive $10 million but Rogan said he was told that it was "more" and said the figure was "wild".

He added that he believes Diaz could have "earned that same money" for a trilogy bout with former rival Conor McGregor, with the two tied at one victory apiece in two of UFC's biggest ever bouts.

MMA reporter Ariel Helwani had reported that Diaz was in negotiations over a return to UFC prior to the announcement, with fellow journalist Luke Thomas claiming the door is closed on a comeback with the promotion.

Rogan called for someone to "drag Conor to a ibogaine center again and clean that boy up".

Schaub, meanwhile, mentioned that McGregor is supposedly set to fight on the International Fight Week card on July 11 in Las Vegas.

Max Holloway is desperate to take on McGregor, having said he is happy to rematch him at "any weight".

The two-weight world champion has not fought since suffering a broken foot in his defeat to Dustin Poirier back in 2021 and his comeback fight against Michael Chandler in 2024 was cancelled after a toe injury.

McGregor was hit with an 18-month ban from fighting after failing to disclose his whereabouts for drug testing on three different occasions that same year but that suspension has just finished.