Carlos Condit: Fighting Nick Diaz again would require getting my head right

It may be a long time until former welterweight title challenger Nick Diaz fights again, on account of his pening disciplinary hearing due to latest positive marijuana test. One of Diaz's biggest rivals, Carlos Condit, will soon be fighting for the 170-pound world championship against Robbie Lawler at UFC 193, however.

If Condit manages to secure the championship, he has a lot of scores he wants to settle. A rematch against Nick Diaz, who he beat by unanimous decision in early 2012, isn't high on that list, though.

It isn't that Condit doesn't believe he could beat Diaz in a rematch, it's just that fighting the instigating Stockton fighter comes with so much extra-curricular stress, according to "The Natural Born Killer."

"Fighting Nick Diaz comes with a lot of other stuff," Condit told the MMA Hour, recently.

"There's the fight it and of itself. Hey, it's a tough fight. It's a tough guy to game plan against and to fight. But the fans and the social media aspect, all of that. I'd have to get my head right for that. Of course I'm not looking past Robbie Lawler, but if I get this belt, I'd like to avenge a couple losses to the next couple of guys who you mentioned earlier, [Johny] Hendricks and [Tyron] Woodley."

Condit lost a decision to Hendricks in 2013, and to Woodley by TKO in 2014. For his part, Diaz owns a 2004 KO victory over the division's reigning champion, Robbie Lawler.

If Diaz is somehow cleared to fight by the Nevada Athletic Commission within the next year, and either Lawler or Condit are champion, it seems entirely possible that he'd call loudly for a rematch with either one. Condit insists that he has bigger things on his plate right now.

He offered to rematch Diaz multiple times in the past, but the bouts didn't come to fruition, in part because of another failed drug test by the Brazilian jiu-jitsu expert after their 2012 bout.

"I'm not worried about it. I went out there and I got the win," he said.

"I've said it in interviews in the past, I've agreed to that rematch a couple times. I don't know if he's ever coming back."