Early in December Nick Diaz’s manager Kevin Mubenga was asked by Fanatics View if his fighter was returning this year. That’s the millions and millions of dollars question, replied Mubenga, as transcribed by Nolan King for MMA Junkie. The guy has been training, e’s been training for at least four months now straight. … Now, we’re in December – we’re what? Four months, five months in now?

He took a little break last month and now we’re going to pick it back up in December and go into the new year hopefully with a new deal done, make sure the money is right and the opponent is right, and we’ll be able to move forward with all of this.

The manager was asked how sure he was Diaz would return.

99.99999, he replied. We just got to get everything else right with the organization and everything. We’ll be able to move forward. … He’s been training as you can see for the last few several months. He took a little break now. Now, it’s time to get back on there and just go through it. You don’t want to overtrain and over-exhaust yourself, especially when you don’t have a date yet. But it was good to be able to go through the regimen and go through that small camp there to kind of feel everything out, get back with everyone [like trainer] Cesar Gracie.

However, during a recent interview with The Schmo, UFC president Dana White was far from 99.99999 sure.

Everything that I see from Nick Diaz doesn’t look like he wants to or is ready to compete in this sport, said White, as transcribed by Farah Hannoun for MMA Junkie. Even Jon Jones, as good as Jon Jones is, you have to be 100 percent mentally, physically, and emotionally ready to train, be ready for this, and fight. I don’t think anyone should wanna see Nick Diaz fight.

Nick Diaz has been in a lot of wars, he’s accomplished a lot of great things in his career, he’s made a lot of money, he’s obviously super-famous. He’s gotten everything you could hope to get out of fighting. I just don’t know why, when I see his Instagram, why he would come back.

What do you think UG? Will Nick Diaz compete in the UFC again?