Amid requires a return to the UFC for an additional title problem at his former welterweight dwelling, Nate Diaz’s head coach, Cesar Gracie has warned promotional brass that it’ll take a substantial payday to lure the Stockton veteran again.
Diaz, a former light-weight title challenger below the UFC banner at victor of The Final Fighter, made his return to fight sports activities over the course of final weekend in Anaheim, taking over fellow Octagon alum, Jorge Masvidal.
Avenging his 2019 physician’s stoppage TKO loss within the pair’s inaugural symbolic BMF title battle, Diaz edged out the Miami native within the pair’s skilled boxing rematch, handing over a majority determination win over the course of 10 rounds.
Within the quick aftermath of his win, Diaz welcomed a slew of potential pairings in his return to motion, together with a UFC return so as to rematch incumbent welterweight champion, Leon Edwards – in a bid to grab a surprising championship.
Nate Diaz would make UFC return for “hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands”
And moreover, off the again of hyperlinks to a long-anticipated pairing with former interim light-weight gold holder, Dustin Poirier, Stockton fan-favorite, Diaz’s coach, Gracie laid out a route again to the group for his scholar.
“Hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands, no matter they’re [the UFC] paying their highest folks,” Cesar Gracie advised Submission Radio. “Nate (Diaz) is such an icon of the game. He’s fought and deserves issues he’s gotten. He needed to get every thing the onerous means. He brings begin energy with him. The occasion final night time was soled out. It was – and it was on Nate Diaz over there. Nobody would have gone to that present with out Nate Diaz. It was so big.”
In his last Octagon look, Diaz turned in a surprising fourth spherical rallying submission win over former interim champion, Tony Ferguson in an impromptu principal occasion at UFC 279 with a guillotine choke.
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