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‘He didn’t look like he wanted to be in there’ — Cormier thinks Nick Diaz should stay retired

Former UFC two-division champion turned MMA analyst Daniel Cormier thinks Nick Diaz would be making a mistake in returning to the Octagon after his stoppage defeat to Robbie Lawler last year.

Some believe Diaz ‘looked damn good’ considering his six-year layoff, but ‘DC’ thinks the Californian’s body language told a different story.

Diaz verbally quit after being dropped by Lawler in the third round which indicates to Cormier that the former Strikeforce welterweight champion and UFC fan favorite simply didn’t want to be in there.

“My last visual of Nick Diaz, I don’t think we’re really going to see him again in the octagon,” Cormier said on a recent episode of the DC & RC podcast (h/t BJPenn.