Nick Diaz made a huge return to the UFC against Robbie Lawler back in September. It was a very surprising move and one that his training partner, Jake Shields, admits wasn't necessarily the best idea at the time.

Jake Shields isn't sure what the future holds for Nick Diaz but he doesn't want a repeat of what happened at UFC 266. The fight was rushed and the older Diaz brother wasn't in the best place mentally.

“I don’t know (if he will fight again), for his last fight, he obviously wasn’t in the best situation you know, mentally and stuff,” Shield said on the Joe Rogan Experience. “So I would like to see him fight again but I’d like to see him do a proper camp.”

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Nick Diaz isn't exactly done fighting though, Jake Shields believes he still wants to fight in the UFC. They just need to make sure that things are done the right way this time around.

“I think he wants to but I really hope he does a proper camp and does it right, because (the last training camp was) not much. I think he was just going through some tough times in his life and you know, I don’t want to get into his personal life too much but I think he was going through a tough time. I would have liked to pull the fight and move it back, personally.”

The mental part of the fight is very important and Nick Diaz showed that he was not in the right place mentally. He did an interview before UFC 266 that had a lot of people worried about him facing Robbie Lawler.

“A lot of it was just motivation, he was kind of like pushed (into the fight). The fight happened so quick and he hadn’t been training at all. And all of a sudden he was like fighting in two months, it was just kind of rushed. Nick’s like a brother, I really hope he fights again but he needs to make sure to properly do a camp,” Shields concluded.