Nick Diaz offered fight against Hector Lombard, hasn't decided whether to accept

[Dale]

LOS ANGELES -- Dana White has made another attempt to lure the enigmatic Nick Diaz out of retirement.

The 209's favorite son hasn't fought since his loss to then-welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre a year ago, but has given indications he'd return from exile for the right fight.

White wants to match up Diaz with welterweight contender Hector Lombard.

According to White, Diaz expressed interest in the bout, but he hasn't heard back from the former Strikeforce welterweight champion after an initial conversation.

"I tried to make Nick and Lombard," White said Wednesday. "Nick and I talked, and I haven't heard back from him, he went MIA."

In December, Diaz flat-out turned down a potential rematch with Carlos Condit. But Diaz resurfaced at last month's UFC 171 and proclaimed himself ready to return to the sport.

Just when he will return, though, remains to be seen.

"He said he liked the fight and then I never heard from him again," White said.

Lombard, meanwhile, is 2-0 since dropping down from middleweight to welterweight. The former Bellator middleweight champion scored a dominant win over Jake Shields at UFC 171.

Not sure how stylistically they match up should it happen however it's a big fight for Nick that would put him pretty damn close to the title if he were to win.

 

[Deezy]

Doubt he accepts it, title shot or major name has been his M.O. since he first signed with the UFC.

Nick would just eat a few shots and keep peppering Lombard until he gasses out and Diaz TKOs him, not much of a matchup imo.

 

[Slim]

Sounds like a pretty good fight. I think Lombard could take it to Diaz.

 

[Deezy]

Diaz is tough and Lombard has no gas tank, think he handle the Stockton slap?

 

[Slim]

If it escapes the first round... Diaz will wear him down

 

[Deezy]

Same guy who survived Daley and knocked him out gotta remember.

 

[Kassidy]

He turned it down cuz of pay and said hed rather work at walmart instead and then tommy toe hold did a show on it lol

 

[Hot Rod]

Lombard is a machine, I think he could convincingly defeat Nick Diaz.

But the fight won't happen.

 

[Deezy]

Lombard is a machine? Yeah, I guess so, too bad you can't get decent mileage out of him.