It's Nick Diaz fight week. I confess that I didn't expect to ever write a sentence like that again.
The Stockton, California native—one of the most popular fighters in MMA history—has not fought since January 2015, when he battled Anderson Silva to a unanimous-decision loss that was later overturned when both fighters failed drug tests.
Once we'd gone a few years without the fan favorite, many accepted we'd never see him fight again. By the time we hit the five-year mark in January 2020, it seemed a near-certainty that he was done for good.