Nate Diaz: 30-9 UFC legend expects him to return after 'one-off' Jake Paul fight

Michael Bisping fully expects Nate Diaz to return to the UFC after his brief dalliance with Jake Paul.

The American MMA fighter hinted at a switch to boxing after choking out Tony Ferguson in the last fight of his contract.

Diaz, 37, has recently been linked to an in-ring appearance against Paul, who at 25 is several years his junior.

But Bisping believes he will be back in the near future as “his window of opportunity is closing all the time.”

“I thought he gave a great speech, I thought Joe Rogan handled the interview very, very well,” Bisping said in a video on his YouTube channel.

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“He’s talking about boxing, he’s talking about jiu-jitsu. The reality is, Diaz is a global superstar, an absolute sensation, and he’s a very skilled mixed martial artist. So he can compete in jiu-jitsu, he can compete in kickboxing — not wrestling — but you might even see him doing bare knuckle boxing, you never know.

“He’s going to go wherever pays the most money. But the reality is Diaz doesn’t have a lot of opportunities to earn the money that he does, outside of the organization. 

“Of course the big one, the obvious one, the one people are all talking about is boxing Jake Paul. That’s a one-off event, and who knows? It’s not guaranteed to do blockbuster numbers.

“It probably would. Diaz is a draw, Jake Paul is a draw, that fight would get a lot of buzz, but that would be one fight. Diaz is 37 years old.

“His window of opportunity is closing all the time. So what? Maybe one big fight with Jake Paul.

“There’s not a lot of opportunity to earn blockbuster paydays, one after the other, after the other, like he does with the UFC.”

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