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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Nate Diaz has been suspended 90 days by the UFC. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ultimate Fighting Championship has suspended Nate Diaz for 90 days and have fined him $20,000 for a homophobic slur on his Twitter account. The UFC lightweight took to his Twitter account on Thursday to verbally attack bantamweight fighter Bryan Caraway. Diaz took exception to Caraway\u00A0receiving\u00A0a $60,000 bonus for submission of the night after the\u00A0original\u00A0recipient, Pat Healy, was docked $130,000 in bonus money for failing a post-fight drug test.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The UFC said in a statement that the money Diaz is being docked will be donated to charity. \u00A0Diaz's manager, Mike Kogan, defended Diaz's homophobic slur, claiming the slur had a different meaning in Northern California, where Diaz is from.\"Nate voiced a personal opinion about an incident that took place involving Bryan Caraway in which he chased Dana all over Twitter to try to get a bonus, which was taken away from Pat Healy, got the bonus, and then had the nerve to go back out there and bash (Healy),\" Kogan said.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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