Vicente Luque is familiar with his summer time months battle with Nick Diaz will be a war — and he suggests he is all set to flatline the Stockton-born MMA star — but he is also savoring the immediate … as the 32-calendar year-aged welterweight suggests the 40-12 months-outdated really inspired his battling design and style!

Luque and Diaz are established to square off in the Octagon on August 3 in Abu Dhabi at UFC on ABC 7 — Nick’s quite 1st battle considering the fact that he dropped to Robbie Lawler in 2021 — and Vicente suggests this will undoubtedly be a vocation highlight.

“It can be absolutely a bucket record,” Luque explained to TMZ Sports.

He ongoing … “I’ve often form of, his battle style constantly inspired me, you know, walking forward, placing on the tension, attempting to crack his opponent, you know, on the lookout not only to finish, but genuinely to dominate, like to break. It truly is the mentality, who needs it extra? And which is something I usually check out to convey to my fights and to my design and style.”

Vicente suggests he constantly preferred to combat Nick — and though he claims he pretty much came shut to sharing the cage with his brother, Nate — Luque assumed the scrap with Nick would beneath no situations arrive to fruition. Immediately just after all, prior to Lawler, Diaz hadn’t fought contemplating the reality that dealing with Anderson Silva in early 2015.

But, as the indicating goes, quite great difficulties happen to people today who wait.

“This was a man that I often required to combat. And afterwards on, it felt like it really is not likely to transpire. And now it actually is likely to happen. So it truly is wonderful!”

Now, the moment the guys step in the Octagon, all the ‘I viewed you developing up’ stuff goes out the window. We asked Vicente how he envisioned the struggle to seem.

“Guy, it can be got to be a war with him, you know, and that’s what I see. He’s tricky. He constantly has cardio. It is really his background, you know with all the triathlon and all that. I know that he has cardio. I know he has a challenging chin. I know he has the will to combat.”

Struggle evening is just 58 days away!