Hot! Nick Diaz

LAS VEGAS Even headlining your Ultimate Fighting Championship cards has not held Nick Diaz coming from feeling seller's remorse.

"If I had this possibility to do this over again, I would have ended up returning to the boxing contract," Diaz said Wednesday. "It would certainly possess paid my family additional money. . Later on, I'm sure they might have experienced me back here."

Three days and nights previous to his / her welterweight onslaught by using BJ Penn with UFC 137 (Saturday, 8 p.m. ET, Spike TV; 9 p.m. ET, pay-per-view), Diaz twisted way up a session having reporters by responding to a dilemma concerning whether or not he or she regrets re-signing with UFC, the most important company among Zuffa's merged martial martial arts styles properties.

He without doubt appears to acquire second thoughts.

Diaz seemed to be planning to try his or her hand in specialized boxing alongside former 168-pound titleholder Jeff Lacy this year, nonetheless Zuffa assured the pup to remain in MMA having lucrative present to transfer him or her coming from Strikeforce instantly in to a title struggle with UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre.

Unfortunately with regard to Diaz, your dog tanked an entire matter by forced off of press meetings in order to encourage your St. Pierre bout, breaking his agreement together with UFC in addition to irking Zuffa authorities a lot which they ripped in two the pup with the combat and relegated your pet to be able to second-banana position inside co-main celebration of your weekend's show.

The attack along with Penn wound upwards in the heading slot at any rate owing to your education damage to St. Pierre, but Diaz remains unmollified. He now believes that your dog must have caught up in order to their unique prefer to box this year.

Although Diaz provides solely one skilled boxing complement with his / her record, he has been considered one of the harder useful strikers throughout mixed fighting styles due to the fact with his unmatched capability in order to dispose of punches quickly while utilizing his lengthy fists as well as lanky body to hold oppositions at bay. Although he includes small head movement along with lacks one-punch knockout power, Diaz's flat iron chin and rapid attractive have got brought him to triumph in stand-up brawls in opposition to a number of the useful punchers throughout his weight class.

Penn calls him the most beneficial boxer in merged martial arts, a check out that will Diaz offers portrayed to be a "reasonable" description. Diaz is convinced his fists could have took the day against a original champ inside Lacy as well as made the way intended for more substantial purses inside boxing along with compounded martial arts.

Building his report in boxing can have helped him or her to go back to mixed martial arts with a larger account and as a result a lot more making power, Diaz said.

"I can be produced an abundance of dollars in boxing and can have produced lots of dollars later approaching back" to MMA, Diaz said. "It definitely might have did wonders away if I possessed carried out precisely what I placed away to complete in addition to simply just gone to pro boxing pertaining to awhile."