Sever Diaz returns to action on Saturday at UFC 266 for the first time in better than six years in a rematch with archaic welterweight champion Robbie Lawler, but he admittedly doesn’t abilities battling.
The 38-yr vulnerable Diaz is varied than the brash fighter that made his expert debut 20 years prior to now. He’s varied than he became when he confronted Anderson Silva in his most attention-grabbing day outing at UFC 183 in January 2015.
Diaz has a cult-like following of followers that admire his legendary toughness and unbridled candidness. If Diaz had his ability, he wouldn’t be battling on Saturday, or ever all all over again.
“I never loved battling. It’s moral one thing that I originate,” Diaz instructed ESPN true by a sit down-down interview. “It’s moral what I originate. I attempted to procure faraway from it, but genuinely it’s roughly inevitable.”
Diaz published that a part of the blueprint that he’s returning to battling is that he doesn’t get to get future remorse. There had been other causes as effectively.
“The entire folks around me, all of the cash and sponsors, they received’t let me procure faraway from battling. There’s things that I will originate, but that’s no longer going to determine. I would possibly well as effectively hotfoot and take my punches. I don’t get to ogle aid and boom, why did I no longer moral originate it? I don’t genuinely feel immense. I genuinely feel immense to fight, but I genuinely feel immense about all the pieces. Nonetheless if I don’t originate this I don’t know how I’m going to genuinely feel about myself, , two years down the freeway if I’m sitting right here going, why didn’t I moral originate this fight that I’d get received.”
At some stage at some stage in the interview, Diaz acknowledged that there’s nothing about prize battling that he enjoys and that he has different resentment in direction of the game.
“Here is no longer palatable. This entire part is for each person else. I’m contented that the followers are elated and that they prefer it. That’s moral what gets them going,” he mentioned. “I fight and each person advantages and I don’t. I receives a commission to fight, after which I fight. I don’t abilities battling.”
“I get different resentment in direction of the game for taking so out of the ordinary from me but no longer giving anything aid,” Diaz mentioned.
