LAS VEGAS – Dana White is not surprised that Nick Diaz is looking to switch things up on fight week. Diaz (26-9 MMA, 7-6 UFC) returns after an almost six-year-long layoff to rematch former welterweight champion Robbie Lawler (26-9 MMA, 7-6 UFC) at UFC 266 on Saturday in a welterweight bout. But just days out of the fight, the former UFC title challenger and Strikeforce welterweight champ has requested for the matchup to take place a weight class above and White is willing to grant him his wish if Lawler accepts. “Robbie Lawler text me that he’ll hit me when he lands so Robbie wants to talk to me about this whole thing,” White told MMA Junkie and other reporters in attendance at the UFC Apex following Tuesday’s Dana White’s Contender Series 40 event. “This all happened when I was out of town this weekend. I know that the Diaz camp wants the fight at ’85.” He continued, “He probably doesn’t want to make weight
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