Nick Diaz will return to the Octagon on August 8 for a clash with No. 13 ranked welterweight contender Vicente Luque in Abu Dhabi. Hopefully, he’ll have a bit more training for this fight than he had ahead of his scrap with Robbie Lawler.
Diaz competed for the first time in more than seven years at UFC 266, squaring off with the former welterweight king at UFC 266. Unfortunately, Diaz’s performance left a lot to be desired. After getting sufficiently pummeled for two full rounds, Diaz finally had enough, verbally submitting 44 seconds into the third.
Fans were immediately critical of Diaz’s performance with many suggesting that he had done very little training for the fight. As it turns out, he didn’t do any.
“He didn’t train at all for the Lawler fight.” Jake Shields revealed on the JAXXON Podcast while talking about Diaz’s fight with Lawler. “That fight shouldn’t have happened in my opinion. Not going to get into too many details, but I wasn’t too happy. I think he was kind of pressured into that, so people could make money.”
He continued, “The fact that he fought Robbie Lawler with zero training in five years, I was freaked out watching that. But, he put on a war. He lost, but he went two rounds… I know he’s training, I can’t say how hard but I know he’s actually training now. Hopefully, I’ll get out there next week and push him.”
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