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On Saturday, Diaz will fight up-and-coming star Khamzat Chimaev in the main event of UFC 279 in Las Vegas ( 10 p.m. ET on ESPN+ PPV). It will be the final fight on Diaz's UFC contract, as he is poised to do something that has never been done before in MMA: depart the UFC voluntarily at the height of his fame. With his knowledge of Hollywood and marketability, Reyes sees a bright future for Diaz in whatever he does next. Before he accepted the Chimaev bout, Diaz told the UFC he wanted to fight heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou or middleweight champion Israel Adesanya because they're "cool." That "cool" factor will be something that informs Diaz's decision about a UFC return in the future. For his next fight after Chimaev, Diaz would like to compete in mixed martial arts, not boxing, under his promotional banner. But, Diaz said, if history is any indication, everything changes for him after every fight. So, nothing can be made definite until after Saturday. I like Dana, too," Diaz said. "I like and respect him. Still, my fight is with you, too. We're competing, too. I'm onto you. Nobody else is. Nobody is even coming close."

Diaz is fiercely loyal to his friends and teammates, whom he regularly flies out on private jets to fights, seminars and vacations. They smoke, train and party together, and have what appears to be an inseparable bond. If Diaz can be involved in all that for the UFC and some of the other prominent stars in the sport, he believes he might as well control his destiny and start something new as a free agent. Then, in August 2017, McGregor leveraged his stardom into a boxing match with Mayweather, which stands as the second biggest pay-per-view event of all time, just behind Mayweather's 2015 fight with Manny Pacquiao. Diaz said McGregor getting the Mayweather fight made him "f---ing hot," because it's one of the fights Diaz wanted, as someone who has been boxing since he was a kid and has sparred with the likes of boxing Hall of Famer Andre Ward. I still do the same runs I used to do when I was 15," Diaz says. "This is for sure going to be homebase forever. ... Home is where your mom is at."

Diaz said his relationship with the UFC and White is still solid. There is no ill will. The one thing other fighters get wrong, Diaz said, is they don't understand that the UFC represents competition to them as much as their opponents in the cage. Diaz has always believed he was going up against the UFC to get the best possible deal for himself, in the same way the UFC would do that, too, from a business perspective. It doesn't have to be emotional or personal. Diaz finds it ironic that McGregor took a gig that was first offered to Diaz, considering how their careers have intersected. Diaz believes he was the catalyst for McGregor achieving superstardom as the biggest money-drawing star in UFC history. Diaz choked out McGregor at UFC 196 in March 2016, raising his profile exponentially. In the rematch five months later, McGregor won by a very close majority decision, with one judge calling it a draw. The UFC's reason for making the fight is transparent: Before Diaz departs, the promotion wants to use his star power to build the profile of Chimaev. It's an old pro wrestling business strategy applied when wrestlers were on their way out of the region -- they first were made to lose to that territory's next big star. Chimaev is a -1100 betting favorite, while Diaz is a +700 underdog, per Caesars Sportsbook.

While Diaz has never won a UFC title, he is one of the more accomplished fighters in the promotion's history. (Source: ESPN Stats & Info.) Stat Nate Diaz has trained extensively in boxing, and a fight against Jake Paul has been rumored for Diaz after his UFC run ends. Marc Raimondi/ESPN Any of [the body shots], if he would have put more on it, would have dropped me, I would imagine. A couple of the head shots wobbled me, too." How can I not create my own organization?" Diaz said, who added he went into the Masvidal fight with a torn meniscus. "I created all this s---. I made the Conor fight. I made the biggest thing out of the Masvidal fight. The president was there. That was all done by me. I don't care what nobody says. The UFC and people can promote it like I'm a hater. No, no, no. I made all that happen. I'll write my own organization. I'll write my own story then." When he wanted to hit hard, it landed," Butcher says. "It landed. Some of those knees to the body, he was being nice because we don't have the pad on. But if he threw some of those, they would have dropped me for sure.

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Perez, who has coached Diaz for nearly 20 years, is excited about the idea that his pupil could step into a boxing ring in the future. That's enough for me," Diaz said, referring to his fight with Edwards. "If you get your ass whipped, you're the loser; I'm the winner. The only thing that happened in that fight with me and him was [the big fifth-round punch]. Despite the UFC's desire and attempts to make a Diaz vs. McGregor trilogy fight, it won't happen anytime soon. In fact, any UFC fights that involve Diaz aren't in the cards for the foreseeable future after this weekend.

I don't care how the fight was going. This is war. We're fighting for f----ing cities and families and b------. Your city, family and b------ are all mine. I just killed you. And that's the champ." Diaz vs. Chimaev is a polarizing matchup that analysts and even other UFC fighters have blasted. Chimaev is 28 years old and one of the hottest rising stars in the UFC, a dominant wrestler from Chechnya via Sweden with a 5-0 UFC record and four finishes. He is very likely on the cusp of a title shot. Diaz, meanwhile, is nine years older, has 14 more years of pro-MMA wear and tear, and has lost three of four.

It's possible, though unlikely, that none of this will come to fruition. That wouldn't bother Diaz. It's a risk he's willing to take.