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Nate Diaz doesn't even need to show up to UFC 196 ... 'cause according to former WBC boxing champ Andre Berto fate is already sealed ... Conor McGregor's gonna kick that ass.

Berto was leaving Playhouse when we got his thoughts on the fight ... who better to ask than a guy who makes a living punishing faces himself, right?

Not only that ... but Andre comes from an MMA family with his father, brother, and SISTER all having competed in the Octagon.

Check out the clip -- Berto is Team McGregor all the way, telling our guy he thinks Nate's tough ... but not tough enough to take out the pride of Ireland.

As far as a matchup between Conor and Jesus ... Berto wouldn't give us a straight answer. Although we already know what McGregor thinks.

Some Pittsburgh sports heroes turned into real life heroes for a group of people stranded in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.

Pittsburgh Steelers player James Harrison was on board The Legends of Pittsburgh Cruise and he uploaded the pics to his Instagram Saturday. According to James, the ship stopped in the middle of the Gulf to rescue 16 people on a homemade raft.

It's unclear what happened to the refugees once on board ... but one thing's for sure, there's a good chance they'll become Pittsburgh fans.

Hotel prince Rick Hilton is going to bat for his family brand -- personally telling Kyrie Irving to COME BACK to Hilton Hotels after his bedbug incident last weekend.

By now you know ... the Cleveland Cavs star claims he was bit up by the creepy crawlies at the Skirvin Hilton in OKC -- and it freaked him out and made him sick.

But Rick -- the grandson of Hilton founder Conrad Hilton -- says the NBA star shouldn't hold a grudge with the hotel chain ... and kindly asks Kyrie to give Hilton another shot.

Some of the best cleat customizers on the planet are at the NFL Combine -- banging out personalized cleats for any player who wants 'em ... and it's all free!

TMZ Sports has learned ... Under Armour hooked up with the guys from Dez Customz and Kreative Customs to pimp out their footwear as a special treat for the players at the combine.

The guys literally have hundreds of pairs of cleats -- and players come into the room at the hotel, select their shoes, tell the guys what they want ... and the artists go to work.

We're told some of the requests have been for comic book characters like the Hulk and Batman ... some have asked for school colors ... and others have just said, "make something cool."

And despite the fact they usually take hours to make ... the artists are knocking out dozens of KILLER DESIGNS in record time for some of the top players in the country.

"Family Matters" star Darius McCrary is no Steve Urkel on the hoop court ... so says his wife (who happens to be a former Harlem Globetrotter) Tammy Brawner who says she KICKS HIS BUTT at basketball.

Brawner took a break from the Basketball Beauties celebrity game to talk to us ... and when we asked how her husband does against her on the basketball court she kept it real ... maybe too real.

Check out the clip -- if you're Darius ... and you see this you might be getting on the phone with Jaleel White to get a few pointers ... 'cause we all know Urkel's actually got game.

Step aside Marco Rubio, legendary boxing promoter Bob Arum says Donald Trump is a "disgrace" and wants to take him down in a boxing match.

Arum thinks the other Republican candidates are going soft on Trump. At a boxing event Friday he vowed, "I'll handle him, not like these guys who don't hit him and treat him with kid gloves."

Watch the clip ... he's talking a big game.

Mike Tyson says he thinks Brad Pitt is a "really nice guy" -- which is interesting considering he once caught the guy about to have sex with his estranged wife.

Iron Mike was on "The Real" when he was asked to recall that infamous moment back in the '80s when he caught his then (estranged) wife Robin Givens sneaking around their house with Pitt.

The whole thing is funny ... Tyson says he was actually at the house hoping to bang Givens one last time before they hashed it out with divorce lawyers when he saw Robin with Brad.

Mike says he doesn't think they actually banged -- though he thinks they were about to -- and says Pitt was goofy and stoney when he confronted the actor.

Now, almost 30 years later ... Tyson says he holds no grudges against Pitt -- and praises him as a nice guy.

Wonder how Brad feels about the whole thing.

J.J. Watt locked himself out of his awesome cabin in the middle of Wisconsin Friday ... in freezing cold weather ... and it was hilarious!!

It all went down after J.J. completed a training session in his personal gym (located in the barn on the property) ... when Watt realized he forgot to bring his keys.

Nothing warms up your shooting arm like throwing bills in the strip club ... just ask Kenneth Faried and Will Barton who spent Thursday night makin' it rain in Dallas ... the night before they play the Mavs.

Multiple sources (and video) tell us the guys hit up VLive in Dallas ... where they got onstage and spent a combined $44,000 (Kenneth dropped $15k, Will dropped $29k).

At one point you can hear the DJ encouraging the guys to "shoot 3s" -- meaning throwing three $100 bills at the same time!

It's been 10 years since Andrei Kirilenko announced that his wife gave him 1 free sex pass per year to bang a groupie ... so when we saw them at LAX Thursday we had to ask -- is the offer still good???

The 35-year-old -- who retired from the NBA last year -- deferred the answer to his wife Masha ... who essentially told us AK still gets the green light ... but coated it with guilt.

"It's just up to him if he accepts [the sex pass] or not."

But the best part of the video is when we ask Masha if the offer goes both ways -- and wait'll you hear what she says.

Justin Bieber got skills!!!

Check out Bieber doing some pretty impressive solo juggling -- complete with a few spin moves ... NOT BAD!!!

Turns out, Bieber's actually a pretty impressive athlete ... he can play hockey, he boxes with Mayweather, he can skate ... and he can hoop (sorta).

Gotta respect it ... right?

Manchester United soccer stud Memphis Depay took his famous girlfriend out in style the other night -- picking up Steve Harvey's step-daughter in a $350,000 Rolls Royce!!

The two hit up a Chinese restaurant in Manchester -- and even the parking ticket waiting on the whip couldn't ruin their evening ... probably 'cause the dude reportedly makes $125k per week.

As we previously reported, Lori Harvey and Memphis went public with their relationship last month.

They're not gonna like this up in Canada ...

Pelicans player Quincy Pondexter thinks age beats beauty in a hardwood battle between Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake ... saying Timberlake would easily dismiss the Biebs on the court.

Quincy started his career with the Memphis Grizzlies -- where Timberlake is part owner ... so when we got him out in Beverly Hills we had to ask if Timberlake can actually hoop.

Pondexter says he's played with JT, who definitely has game -- "for a white guy" -- and when we asked who'd win a matchup between JT and Justin Beiber, Quincy couldn't have been stronger.

"I'll take Timberlake all day."

1-on-1 for charity? We'd watch.

Ex-NBA player John Wallace -- a 1st round pick in the '96 draft -- was arrested in Brooklyn on Thursday in a routine traffic stop gone bad ... TMZ Sports has learned.

Law enforcement tells us ... Wallace's 2010 Yukon Denali was pulled over around 10:15 AM for failing to use his blinker -- and during the stop, cops noticed his license had been suspended. We don't know why his license had been suspended.

The 42-year-old was taken into custody and booked for "aggravated unlicensed operator" -- a charge that carries a maximum 30 days in jail if convicted.

NY Giants co-owner Steve Tisch says he fully supports Jason Pierre-Paul's lawsuit against Adam Schefter and ESPN ... saying the publication of JPP's medical record was a "total invasion of privacy."

JPP filed the lawsuit earlier this week -- claiming the ESPN reporter violated Florida law by sharing medical records detailing Jason's amputated finger to his 4 million Twitter followers without JPP's permission.

How do you top a tricked out Polaris? A fire-breathing Lambo? And a cherry red Alfa Romeo??

How about a super pimped out custom Jeep with your jersey number painted on the hood???

That's how NY Mets superstar Yoenis Cespedes will hit up spring training Friday ... so says his personal car guru, Alex Vega.

Vega -- who runs The Auto Firm in Miami -- tells us he personalized the hell out of the Jeep complete with some cool baseball themed surprises. Here are the highlights:

Complete body kit with a custom hood (with #52 on it), custom LED lights all around, a 4 inch lift kit, custom Avorza red leather seats stitched like a baseball glove, new exhaust system ... and 22x14 custom Avorza wheels.

"This is one of the craziest Jeeps we've done ... right up there with [Floyd Mayweather's]," Vega says.

Nice work.