Nate Diaz may have exited UFC 196 as the biggest male star in all of MMA. It's time he started getting paid like it.

In between the lines of all his demanding trash talk over the years, all Nate Diaz has really ever asked for are big fights, and the money to go along with them. He's deserved both for a long time.

Until Saturday, however, he was one of the relatively worst-paid elite fighters in the UFC despite being a perennially top-ranked guy with a rabid fanbase who has pulled in big TV ratings for FOX cards. After a decade in the UFC, Diaz has won perhaps the toughest TUF season of all-time, season five, and fought for a world title.

Now he can add beating the most celebrated man in the sport to his resume.

Saturday's UFC 196 was the first time that Diaz has ever headlined a pay-per-view, however. With just a week of promotion, Diaz and Conor McGregor turned the card into what what Dana White says may end up being the biggest-selling PPV in the promotion's history.

More than sell the fight, of course, Diaz won it, and won it convincingly, and quickly. His victory was made for television -- it had plenty of drama, blood, slugging, and his typical taunting and spectacular boxing and submission work. Nate Diaz won in typical Nate Diaz fashion...