Nate Diaz and Eddie Alvarez could have fought in 2015. The two got into a backstage altercation at UFC 188 in Mexico City and there was plenty of interest at that time about a matchup between the two hard-nosed lightweights.
It didn’t happen, though. Diaz told Ariel Helwani on a special edition of The MMA Hour last week that Alvarez turned the bout down at that point because he was waiting for a title shot. When the UFC offered him Alvarez back in January of this year, Diaz was no longer interested.