Just days after contemplating retirement following his UFC 269 loss, Dustin Poirier has agreed to fight Nate Diaz.
Poirier was submitted by Charles Oliveira last weekend, marking the second time the perennial contender has missed out on the lightweight title.
'The Diamond' admitted he was heartbroken after the loss and needed some time away to decide his future.
But Poirier has now backtracked on his comments after calling for a welterweight fight with Diaz on social media.
Diaz's contract was extended by the UFC this week after the fan favourite turned down a fight against surging welterweight contender Khamzat Chimaev.
And he wrote to Poirier: "I’ll fight Dp in January don’t be a scared lil b**** this time now or never."
The pair were booked to fight at UFC 230 in 2018, but Poirier pulled out of the fight due to a hip injury.
Diaz wanted to return to the cage at UFC 270 on January 22, with the pay-per-view event taking place in his home state of California.
Poirier then replied to Diaz stating he would fight him "this month", as to which Diaz replied: "Ur full of s***."
Former interim titleholder Poirier was handed a 30-day medical suspension by the Nevada Commission after his recent loss, but that wouldn't matter if he was to fight in a different state.
Despite his calls for a fight this month, Poirier would be ineligible to compete at the UFC's final event of the year in Las Vegas this weekend due to his medical suspension.
Poirer - who has previously competed at featherweight - admitted before his fight with Oliveira that he would fight at 170lbin the future.
And despite making the weight easily for UFC 269, he is unsure if he will ever cut to 155lb again.
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"I don't know if I wanna make that cut again, I might never fight at 155lb again. I don't know the future," he told The MMA Hour.
"I could have come in at 152 on this fight, my cut went so smooth and I felt great. Of course, that's because I did all the things I was supposed to do in training camp.
"But I don't know if I want to go through that kind of training camp again where I'm hungry every day, competing and pushing myself every day in the gym on low calories.
"I'd rather just do it and have fun because I love what I'm doing, making it as enjoyable as possible instead of sacrificing and hurting every day in camp.
"I'm not that big, this last camp I was 182lbs starting camp 9 weeks before the fight but the older I get it's harder to cut weight."
