“I do not need to damage no person. I simply need to get together.”
UFC welterweight Nick Diaz teased his return to the octagon in 2018, however it seems he’s now content material with merely watching from the sidelines. Until, course, the UFC makes him an impressive fer that he cannot refuse.
As Diaz places it, “I do not need to damage no person. I simply need to get together.”
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Diaz posted the next message on Instagram following Sunday evening’s UFC occasion in Phoenix, Arizona.
“I’m no function mannequin, I’m 35 years previous,” Diaz wrote on Instagram, “however I positively wouldn’t advise anyone to take a combat for lower than their price or combat without cost. Which is virtually what I’d be doing at this level in taking a combat with some these guys that aren’t on my stage. Nor would I be inside my ethical ethics to even do that other than you not portray me as a task mannequin.”
“If there was an fer I couldn’t refuse, issues could be totally different. Till they’re — I’d prefer to proceed to suppose I’ve been combating to make the world a greater place, however till I can proceed to try this: ‘I don’t need to damage no person, I simply need to get together.’”
Diaz has not competed within the UFC since January 2015, when he misplaced resolution to Anderson Silva. Nonetheless, the match was later dominated a no-contest after Silva examined optimistic for PEDs and Diaz examined optimistic for marijuana.
Older brother UFC Light-weight Nate Diaz, Nick (26-9) just lately served an 18-month suspension after testing optimistic for marijuana metabolites. He was additionally suspended by the United State Anti-Doping Company once more in 2017 for lacking three out–competition drug checks, in accordance with ESPN.
The 35-year previous Stockton, California native regained his eligibility final April. He has not received a combat since UFC 137 in October 2011, when he defeated BJ Penn by unanimous resolution.