UFC welterweight Nick Diaz has been offered a fight by the UFC against his former opponent Robbie Lawler and the bout is targeted for UFC 266 which takes place in September.
In his last fight in the UFC, Diaz faced Anderson Silva in 2015 at UFC 183. He lost the fight by unanimous decision. A few days after the fight, the UFC revealed that Diaz had once again failed his post-fight drug test for marijuana metabolites, and Silva tested positive on January 9 for several performance-enhancing drugs. In September 2015, the Nevada State Athletic Commission suspended Diaz for five years and fined him $165,000 following his failed drug test of marijuana metabolites at UFC 183. In 2020, Diaz’s manager announced that his client is back in UFC’s testing pools and is looking for fights.
Nick was then seen attending the UFC 261 which was the first event with a full crowd since the pandemic. After the event, Dana White said he will be having a conversation with Nick and they will discuss his future in this fighting game. After the meeting with Nick, Dana White said he feels Diaz will fight again but he still has many doubts.
“It went good,” White told ESPN. “My whole thing with Nick Diaz is I just question how bad he really wants to fight. We got together, we had a great conversation, talked about a possible comeback for him, I just don’t know. We’ll see how it plays out this summer and the rest of this year.”
But recently Dana White said that all his doubts regarding Diaz are clear and they are looking for some amazing fights.
“I wasn’t very high on it. I didn’t think that it would happen, but it looks like it will,” White told Farah Hannoun.
“You never hear me say that, ever,” White joked. “You say, ‘Do you think Nick Diaz will fight this year?,’ and ‘absolutely, positively not’ is what I usually say.”
“The matchmakers have (spoken to Diaz) and I don’t know where we’re at on it, but it’s looking promising,” White said.
Nick Diaz vs Robbie Lawler targeted for UFC 266
Now after a few meetings and many speculations regarding Nick’s return finally there is a valid report out there regarding the same.
BREAKING: Nick Diaz vs. Robbie Lawler IN THE WORKS (not yet official) as a co-main for an event in September per Dana White.
— Aaron Bronsteter (@aaronbronsteter) July 7, 2021
“BREAKING: Nick Diaz vs. Robbie Lawler IN THE WORKS (not yet official) as a co-main for an event in September per Dana White.”
This news has just broken the internet of the MMA community of the world as everyone was excited about Nicks’s return but now seeing him face Robbie Lawler is the perfect comeback fight for him. The duo has fought before and this will be the rematch e never saw coming.
Nick in his early career fought in several elite promotions across the world. He fought at UFC 47 and faced the heavy favourite Robbie Lawler who was just knocking guys out in his path to the top of the welterweight division. Many people counted out Diaz even before the fight but the result was shocking to everyone as Nick knocked out Lawler in a violent fashion in the second round of the fight.
Robbie Lawler is riding a four-fight losing streak and hasn’t won a fight since 2017. His losses came to Colby Covington, Ben Askren, Rafael dos Anjos and in his last outing, he lost a decision to Neil Magny. Lawler won the UFC welterweight title in 2014. He defended it twice before losing it to Tyron Woodley in 2016. The former UFC welterweight champion has wins over Carlos Condit, Donald Cerrone, Rory MacDonald, Johny Hendricks, and Matt Brown among others.
This is Rematch 17-years in the making and no one saw this coming. The fans are definitely praying to the MMA Gods to make this fight happen. UFC 266 is expected to be headlined by the featherweight championship fight between champion Alexander Volkanovski and Brian Ortega while Nick Diaz vs. Robbie Lawler 2 will be the co-main event.
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