Eddie Alvarez wants Nate Diaz next. Diaz doesn’t seem to be interested, though.
Alvarez, the former UFC lightweight champion, told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour that his team asked the UFC for a fight with Diaz, but Diaz rejected it.
“I’m shocked,” Alvarez said. … “He got a taste of that money and now he changed.”
Alvarez thought for sure Diaz would have taken the fight, because of the history the two have. Alvarez and Diaz almost came to blows backstage at UFC 188 in Mexico City in 2015 after Alvarez defeated Diaz’s longtime teammate Gilbert Melendez.