Nate Diaz next fight: One matchup is his 'best chance' of success - and it's not Conor McGregor

Daniel Cormier wants to see Nate Diaz take on Michael Chandler before he fights out of his UFC contract.

Diaz, 36, revealed in January he is considering a move to boxing after losing to Leon Edwards in June of last year.

The Stockton brawler reportedly has one fight left on his current deal with the world’s premier mixed martial arts organisation and was recently linked to a trilogy fight against his old rival Conor McGregor.

But Cormier believes he still has one big fight left in him and wants to see him get back in the octagon against Chandler, despite the fact he hasn’t won a fight since beating Anthony Pettis three years ago.

Cormier said on his YouTube channel: “I think Nate Diaz has finally got it right.

“Nate Diaz has finally got a target that gives him the best chance for success. You know who it is? It’s my boy Michael Chandler.

“After what Chandler did to Tony Ferguson, I still look at the matchup, and within that matchup I see places for Nathan Diaz to find success. Why? We saw Tony Ferguson, for the first time in many, many fights, land something significant on someone, knocking my boy Chandler down.

“Why? My boy Chandler kind of stands in front of people. If you know Nathan Diaz, he’s constant pressure, he’s in your face, he’s boxing you up, and he’s long.

“I know Michael Chandler is a ton of bricks, he’s a monster for the weight class, but if Diaz can go up to 170, be tough enough and durable enough to go 25 minutes with Leon Edwards and lose pretty much the whole fight and then hurt him at the end in the way that he did, he can fight a 155-pounder at 170.

“He’s not depleting himself so much that everything Mike throws at him will hurt him. I’m not by any means saying this is an easy fight for either