LAS VEGAS – Onetime UFC interim lightweight title challenger Kevin Lee claims he was in line to welcome Nate Diaz back to the octagon. The only problem, he said, was Diaz didn’t want to come back. “The Nate Diaz fight was there,” Lee (16-3 MMA, 9-3 UFC) told reporters backstage at this past Saturday’s UFC 222, which took place at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. “I thought it would have been a good fight. I would have wanted to take that one. Nate’s a tough fighter, and a lot of people are real high on him.
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Kevin Lee explains why he’s fighting Edson Barboza, not Nate Diaz or Eddie Alvarez – MMA Junkie