Nate Diaz remains open to a trilogy fight with Conor McGregor - but is not desperate to face the Irishman again.
Diaz choked out McGregor in 2016 before losing their rematch six months later by decision.
He then sat out for three years before returning in August to beat Anthony Pettis to set up Saturday’s clash with Jorge Masvidal at UFC 244.
McGregor meanwhile went on to beat Eddie Alvarez to win the lightweight title but then suffered defeats by Floyd Mayweather and Khabib Nurmagomedov.
The Dubliner is pencilled in to return to the UFC on January 18 against Donald Cerrone and wants to then face the winner of Diaz vs Masvidal.
But of a trilogy fight, Diaz said: “Maybe, maybe not, I don’t know what’s next.
“I’m going to do what I’m going to do. We’ll see what’s going to happen in the future. Like I said before, when the stars line up. I don’t know what’s next. I’m going to try to make this fight happen the way it’s supposed to happen, and we’ll go from there.
“Whatever is going to happen in the future is going to happen in the future.
“They play me like I was sitting there waiting for that fight forever, but I wasn’t. I would have liked it immediately. But when it wasn't immediate, I was like, ‘What? Am I going to chase you around?’ I don’t give a f***.
“If he wanted it and we were going to fight, then we were going to fight. But if it’s going to happen, it’s going to play out like it’s going to play out.”
Diaz will take on Masvidal for the ‘Baddest Motherf*****’ belt at Madison Square Garden in New York having been cleared to fight following an abnormal drug test finding.
Drug testing agency USADA ruled a vegan supplement Diaz had taken had been contaminated.
