After the defeat to Jorge Masvidal in November 2019, Nate Diaz had a relatively long break time. Now, UFC has arranged so he can return to the ring. The opponent of the Diaz brother is Leon Edwards.
Typically, the unchanged competitions will rarely last 5 rounds. If it lasts 5 rounds, that match will be the focus of the main event of an event night. However, Nate Diaz vs Leon Edwards is only the 2nd match, Co-Main Event. The focal match of UFC 262 is the confrontation against Lightweight between Michael Chandler and Charles Oliveira.
This is the first time UFC has opened an exception like this. It can be seen that UFC is quite favored Nate Diaz and Leon Edwards.
With Diaz, the confrontation with Leon Edwards is an opportunity for him to return to the peak of the weight class after the defeat against Jorge Masvidal at UFC 244 in November 2019. In the last 5 matches he won 3 and lost 2. Of the three Nate Diaz names surpassing the Conor McGregor and Anthony Pettis.
On Edwards, he was looking for a high-ranking martial artist to add to the achievement table after playing for more than a year because of Covid-19. Edwards was arranged to confront Khamzat Chimaev three different times, but all were not successful due to the health of the opponent.
Edwards finally compared to the replacement boxer Belal Muhammad in March. Unfortunately, an accidentally poked eye hit Muhammad in the second half was forced to stop and no results. Now, Leon Edwards continues to search for new opponents to build a series of eight victories (not including the game without results). He expected that the victory over Diaz would help him get closer to the chance of fighting belt.