{"id":281791,"date":"2010-02-05T11:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,yhoo:20050301:mma,article,yhoo-ept_sports_mma_experts-217805:1"},"modified":"2010-02-05T11:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T16:00:22","slug":"nick-diaz-should-be-in-the-ufc-but-wont-play-the-game-according-to-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/281791","title":{"rendered":"Nick Diaz should be in the UFC but won’t play the ‘game’ according to White"},"content":{"rendered":"

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He’s one of the top four fighters for Scott Coker’s Strikeforce. It’s not often the growing promotion gets a fighter at his peak in his 20’s. There’s a long story behind why Nick Diaz isn’t getting a shot anytime soon at UFC welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre. The 26-year-old from Stockton, California marches to the beat of his own drummer. When asked about Diaz calling out GSP (2:22 mark)<\/a>, UFC president Dana White almost sounded frustrated suggesting his hands were tied because of the fighter’s behavior between fights, with the media and away from the cage. <\/p>\n

"The kid is very talented. And he probably should be in the UFC. But that kind of stuff has to stop."  <\/p>\n

Diaz is a tough guy to manage.  <\/p>\n

"You have to follow certain rules and guidelines," said White. "The last time Nick Diaz was in the UFC he got into a fist fight at the hospital."<\/p>\n

The story was that Diaz brawled with Joe Riggs at a Henderson, NV. hospital following their fight at UFC 57. Diaz actually fought three more times going 2-1 with wins over Gleison Tibau and Josh Neer, and a loss to Sean Sherk. <\/p>\n

The biggest problem is Diaz’s long history of drug testing issues in Nevada and California. White said he has a good relationship with Nick and his brother Nate, who does fight for the UFC. Maybe there’s a shot for Nick to return down the road but it doesn’t sound like anything that’ll happen soon.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

He’s one of the top four fighters for Scott Coker’s Strikeforce. It’s not often the growing promotion gets a fighter at his peak in his 20’s. There’s a long story behind why Nick Diaz isn’t getting a shot anytime soon at UFC welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre. The 26-year-old from Stockton, California marches to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}