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Dana White has insisted a fight between Nate Diaz and Khamzat Chimaev is the fight that UFC fans want to see.

Diaz was searching for an opponent for several months as he awaited a test for the final outing on his UFC contract. Several opponents were talked up by the American including Dustin Poirier and Vicente Luque but a fight failed to materialise.

However after making an emotional plea to be released from his deal, UFC president White found Diaz a fight with rising star Chimaev which will take place on September 10 at the T-Mobile Arena. The likes of UFC contender Leon Edwards and former fighter Dan Hardy have expressed their views against the match-up, which also concerned fans who claimed Chimaev could "kill" Diaz.

White has now admitted it took a long time to find Diaz his final opponent and has claimed critics don't have to watch the fight. “I love when fighters, or other people, or anybody else, gives us advice on this incredibly successful business that we’ve built,” White told Yahoo Sports. “It cracks me up.

So, I’m looking at [matching Diaz with] Francis Ngannou or Khamzat Chimaev, and a couple of other ones that were not good, either. I’m going to take Khamzat. I can tell you this: Leon Edwards, Dan Hardy and anybody else who is out there yapping has never dealt with the Diaz brothers. It’s a very unique experience.

"It takes a very long f***ing