Amid requires a return to the UFC for one more title problem at his former welterweight residence, Nate Diaz’s head coach, Cesar Gracie has warned promotional brass that it’s going to 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 up fellow Octagon alum, Jorge Masvidal.
Avenging his 2019 physician’s stoppage TKO loss within the pair’s inaugural symbolic BMF title struggle, Diaz edged out the Miami native within the pair’s skilled boxing rematch, handing over a majority choice 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 with a view 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 pupil.
“Tens of millions and hundreds of thousands, no matter they’re [the UFC] paying their highest individuals,” Cesar Gracie instructed 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 little thing the laborious approach. 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 enormous.”
In his ultimate Octagon look, Diaz turned in a surprising fourth spherical rallying submission win over former interim champion, Tony Ferguson in an impromptu foremost occasion at UFC 279 with a guillotine choke.
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