Former light-weight title challenger, Nate Diaz has claimed he’s nonetheless looking for a legacy-making title victory in a future return to the UFC — earlier than claiming there may be at the moment no fighter on the promotion’s books attractive him to make good on a comeback.
Diaz, a former light-weight championship chaser and victor of The Final Fighter throughout his prolonged tenure with the promotion, accomplished his contract and departed the Octagon to compete in a sophomore boxing outing again in 2022.
And headlining UFC 279 in a reworked welterweight essential occasion outing with former interim light-weight kingpin, Tony Ferguson, Diaz was initially scheduled to headline the cardboard towards unbeaten middleweight pressure, Khamzat Chimaev.
Nevertheless, assembly Ferguson on only a day’s discover, Stockton veteran, Diaz rallied to submit his fellow TUF winner with a fourth spherical guillotine choke submission.
And within the time since, the Californian has been linked with an eventual return to motion, towards a number of opponents.
Nate Diaz plans to shut profession with UFC title victory
Nevertheless, this weekend, Diaz admitted no combat is at the moment attractive him to make a comeback to the Octagon, however admitted he needs to see out his profession in fight sports activities by putting gold within the UFC.
“Well, everybody’s boring right now, so I’m trying to do other sh*t for the moment,” Nate Diaz stated throughout an interview with Full Violence. “But like, I want to go back and get a UFC title. I don’t want to fight for nothing, you know? I want to fight for something. … It’s about buzz and who’s poppin’ and who’s doing something. Right now, there’s nobody doing sh*t in the UFC.”
“That’s why I’m not in there [in the UFC] right now, you know what I’m saying?” Nate Diaz defined. “I’m watching. I’m hoping for something. … There’s no buzz, nobody’s doing sh*t. There’s nobody to fight, everybody is wack. Every single body in boxing and MMA.”