Nate Diaz reveals plans to return to MMA after combating Jake Paul and admits that he ‘appreciates the UFC extra’ since leaving the promotion final 12 months

Nate Diaz has revealed that he’s planning on returning to MMA after taking up Jake Paul on Saturday night.

The 38-year-old will grow to be the most recent MMA fighter to transition to the squared circle when he takes on Paul in a ten spherical conflict on the American Airways Heart in Dallas, Texas.

Saturday’s foremost occasion will mark the primary time Diaz has competed outdoors the UFC since leaving the promotion last year following a win over Tony Ferguson in September.

Nonetheless, regardless of his typically acrimonious relationship along with his former employer, Diaz revealed that his experiences since depaturing the promotion have given him a newfound appreciation for the UFC.

‘Yeah, I will do MMA,’ Diaz informed the Full Send Podcast when requested on his plans following the combat with Paul.

Nate Diaz will combat outdoors the UFC for the primary time since 2006 when he takes on Jake Paul on Saturday evening

However the former title challenger revealed he plans on returning to the promotion after combating Paul

‘100%, I am going to field and do MMA, once more a bunch of instances. I feel afterward, after each combat, it is like, after my final combat with Ferguson, I bought out. It was like a breath of recent air.’

‘I respect the UFC extra now than once I was in it, you understand what I am saying? I can see various things that I would not even have a look at once I was in there. 

‘Like ‘Oh, that is why they try this, cool truly’. So, I will get completed with this combat, then I am certain one other breath of recent air.’

Diaz went on to reward how the promotion is run however added that, given the chance, he would take away the UFC’s uniform uniform coverage.

‘That is the most important promotion on the earth, that is the very best promotion on the earth. They have the most important fighter, largest identify fighters and I feel the UFC is fairly dope, fairly legit.

‘Yeah there’s issues I might change however that is private, like that uniform rule the place all people appears to be like the identical and s*** like that. It is not soccer, I prefer to put on no matter I wish to put on.

Diaz left the UFC final 12 months after calling his time with the promotion as a  ‘love-hate relationship’

‘However they have their s*** collectively and so they’re doing an amazing job and I feel it is going to keep the very best factor for a very long time.’

The UFC instituted a uniform coverage in 2014, signing a cope with Reebok value a reported £42,000,000, that required all fighters below contract to put on gear manufactured by the sportswear big and instituted a coverage that paid fighters a further charge primarily based on their tenure with the promotion.

Beforehand fighters had been allowed to have their very own particular person sponsors, providing greater stars the chance to get pleasure from a big enhance of their combat week payouts.