It seems that Dana White is in no hurry to put Nate Diaz on a UFC card. Talking to ESPN, White makes it clear that’s he’s not interested in booking a Nate Diaz fight, unless the California native is dying for one:
“I’m not interested in making a Nate Diaz fight until Diaz is just dying to fight,” White told ESPN.
“We’ll offer him fights, we always offer him fights. We probably offered this kid 50 fights since he fought Conor. When he’s ready to fight, he’ll let us know.”
Diaz seemed eager to fight over the summer and when the promotion announced a lightweight bout between him and Dustin Poirier for the upcoming UFC 230 pay-per-view event, everything seemed fine. However, in the wake of their pre-fight press conference, the situation went downhill.
“He wanted a fight, we made a fight, we announced the fight, immediately he starts saying he’s not fighting,” White said
. “We had a guy here in the company that was a big Nate Diaz fan, a big Nick Diaz fan and wanted to work with them. He’s not as enthusiastic as he used to be.”
Diaz hasn’t fought since his memorable bout with Conor McGregor back at UFC 202. That was over two years ago and while Diaz has stated that he wouldn’t mind facing Khabib Nurmagomedov, there’s talks that Tony Ferguson or Conor McGregor may get a crack at the lightweight champion next.