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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 Diaz said one of his counteroffers to the UFC was the promotion had to sign five of his teammates. Diaz is exceptionally close with his team, and with the future staked to Real Fight Inc., the name of his new promotion, he can bring them along for the ride. 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." 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. I've been waiting to do it for a long time, because I know he could do it," Perez says. "I'm for it all the way. He'll do really good. He'll be in the top two [in his division], I bet you. He could win a belt. When he's training just in boxing, he's tremendous. People talk about him all the time. We go to professional boxing gyms ... [and] he whips guys' butts." 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.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.

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." 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." 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. 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.

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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.