UFC Boss Confirms Diaz Won't Get Cut For Failed Drug Test
“[Diaz] will be back. Really like the kid just needs to get it together. I’m a sap for real fighters.”
UFC co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta took to twitter yesterday to field fan questions. During his time in the session he told the people participating that he does intend to let Nick Diaz stay in the UFC following his positive drug test results.
For many fighters, they lose their job at the drop of the hat. Torres lost it for a twitter post, some lose it for three losses, others two, and yet Todd Duffee lost his employment after just one.
In the case of Diaz, after multiple infractions with the company, he still gets to keep his position with the promotion should he so choose to.
Good news for Diaz fans!
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This is such crap. They’ll cut someone for making an off color joke, but they’ll keep this trash talking piece of garbage that blatantly violates the rules, and I love pot, and endangers main events.
cry about it. diaz comes to fight and makes the ufc a shit ton of money.
hes only had two fights how does he “make the ufc tons of money” the last card only had 400000 ppv buys which is considered low, so dont exaggerate the facts you diaz nut hugger
lol everyone wants to see what diaz is up to and 400 thou isn’t that low. if he didn’t make the ufc a lot of money then why would they still have them after not showing up to a press conference, missing a bunch of flights in this event’s media coverage, and then failing his drug test?
400000 buys isnt impressive at all, its either mediocre or just below mediocre so claiming he makes them tons of money is a false claim, plus like i said hes only had two fights, the ufc doesnt need him
12 fights you complete idiot
You cal people nut huggers yet your a complete hater that will consistently take time out of your day to bash diaz. Your worse then any nut hugger. Diaz is only of the few real fighters left and if you dont like it grab you balls like a man and stop hatin
Whats 400,000 times 50 bucks? Hmmm Cue the Jeopardy music… Its 20 F-ing million dollars, Idk is that alot?
Comes to fight when they throw no cardio dudes in front of him.. Throw his ass a wrestler and then tell me he comes to fight. The wining streak he was on before the condit loss not one was a wrestler that’s why he was looking so good. He’d throw blow for blow with them tell they gases and then KO them…throw his ass a wrestler please,you won’t see no fight in his ass..
Hes been callin out a wrestler for how long now(gsp)??? Yeah throw his ass a wrestler hell oputbox ANY wrestler u throw his way and will INVITE the take down so he can be in an even BETTER position to win the fight sub style so quit with ur “i hate diaz hes a punk” attitude. Lame ass . . .
Throw in a wrestler and we won’t get to see a fight either, just dry-humping. Condit’s gameplan didn’t deliver the excitement of a KO, but it sure was more entertaining than watching one guy hump another for 5 rounds!
LOL! Listen to yourself Trolling.
If you “loved pot”, then you’d know that it doesn’t endanger anybody. He wasn’t on steroids like Cyborg. Rogan smokes a lot, is he endangering Mike Goldberg? I highly doubt it.
I love pot, but I had to stop smoking for my profession due to drug screening. I don’t feel that I am special and deserve an exception, so why should Diaz?? If you truly loved your profession, then you would follow the rules set in your contract, and party when your done, or have off time.
i bet your job is really stressful, so you having to quit for work must have been so hard.
if it was your job to get punched in the face, or endurance train for grueling brain deadening triathlons, then it may not be possible, especially when you are careful what you put in your body. Marijuana is mild compared to other ‘legal’ pharmaceutic pain killers, anti anxiety meds, muscle relaxers, etc, etc. if you haven’t heard, the prohibition of marijuana is wrong, but lobbied for by big pharma and enforced by the elected fed (in pharma’s pocket).
we all have our vice or vices, and marijuana is one not to really worry about.
I work at a job I had to quit smoking for and I still smoke pot, im not hurting anyone and no one knows, person and professional need to stay separate but diaz got bust on his POST fight test after he retired. Keep that in mind because if you quit you job after some stupid shit happened would you not go find a dub and blaze up? I know I would
Because he has a prescription off the doctor!
**** that, work is something I do not something I am. If I wanna smoke weed in my own free time I’m gonna do that.
Ofcourse in my case being my own boss helps, but even if I had to work at some company with drug screenings I would just do what I want in my free time.
well said, if you cant quit then prepare to face the consequences
Fuk no!! Golbergs endangering Rogan wiith his stupid commentary…..”if you will”!!
Cut this clown….he’s horrible for the sport! They should re-evaluate all their fighters as half of them are not worthy to even be in the UFC, including Diaz!
go back to watching WWE & sucking ur own tiny **** u ass clown.
Diaz is great for the sport lol you probably watch your first ufc when Brock lesnar and frank Mir were fighting. Fans like you who can appreciate a true fighter are what’s bad for this sport
im soo angry about this this man is a joke and is making a mockery of the UFC so many better fighters shit canned for less and this peice of shit just keeps getting away with it. note to other fighters be a loud mouth wanker and they will keep you you know why???$$$$$$$ because people will pay to watch someone try and kick his head in and i hope if condit does fight him again he kncks him out with one of those deadly knees or elbows. And GSP deserves a crack at him for diaz said about him in the middle of the octagon evryone knows GSP will kill diaz and would defenitley pay to watch it to. Diaz you shold be ashamed of yourself and So should the UFC anyone else and they would have been gone straight away. Wat if it was overeem or someone like that who they harras all the time???
It was pot not steroids you prude, stop making such a big deal out of it
dude. you realize Torres is back in the UFC now? so he wasn’t really cut.
Blow up Jared – its guys like Nick Diaz that you want to see fight – anti-heros. GSP and Jon Jones are boring Mr Nice Guys. Give me a Nick Diaz or Chael Sonnen any day.
How is Jones a nice guy, he’s probably finished for guys then you have women!
I hope he comes back. He’s got some great skills and entertainment value. Just needs to learn how to lose. “Cause he’s gonna have a lot more of them if he decides to stay in the UFC.
So none of the other fighters the UFC cut were “real fighters”? that excuse to not cut him is such a load of bullshit
It’s simple… Weed is not frowned upon.
Get over it.
Obviously he is a fan of Diaz’s approach to fighting.
Even Lorenzo’s burned one with Diaz…….LOL
I love wweeeed
i love pot to but if i had a 6 figure contract and it said you can not use drugs of anykind you dont touch them. its all about $$$$$ and its starting to piss me off. Yeah do what you want boys just make sure you put on a good show.
Fighters Union Local 420
Diaz is a true scrapper. You know when Diaz is fighting the fight isn’t going to be boring. Win or lose Diaz brings it. **** the haters.
+1 That’s exactly how I feel
Good for Lorenzo! Marijuana is not a PED. Optimus Prime supports this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYBI80hAk8s
Damn, bj website keeps trying to bash nick, he didnt leave the ufc to try to make more money like bj did, tod dufee got cut because the way he acted towards the ufc behind the scenes, nick fights, and fights hard. Marijuana today is such a small deal, why would they fire him, its not like steiroids
Lmao i love all the diaz haters.. all the same guys that said carlos fought a good fight are gona bitch bout how boring condit gsp will be… jus realize real fighters are why mma is loved. not gameplanners
+1
beautifully said.
yep.
just stop talking everyone in the UFC is a fighter, a fan for many ages you may be but a respectful one you are not
this is good news Diaz is the best fighter at 170
I hope diaz washed off his pipe after he sucked lorenzo’s Dick did you see the smile on his face maybe he needs a hit to
Lmao daley is a bum?? cyborg is a bum? gomi at his best couldnt even come close.. i agree diaz hasnt fought any notable wrestlers that i can think of but i seriously doubt hell back peddle n kick his leg. hed prolly pull gaurd and sub him.. I hope he fights kos next jus for u
people are such bitches lol, so what if he smokes a lil herb that’s he damn business not ours, thank you UFC for not cutting a true warrior!!!!
Pot is not frowned upon this doesn’t compare to any fighters that have been cut diax should keep his job. With that being said all it takes diaz is a week two weeks tops to get the weed out of his system with absolutely not body fat. I don’t understand how he doesnt have it down to a science yet very foolish on his part
a true warrior doesnt quit after a loss
It’s all about the money, hence why Chael Sonnen has a job.
Also about giving fans what they want.
What did Torres or Duffee ever really do for the company?
This is a business, and Diaz is a headliner and a cash-cow for Zuffa. Not to mention one of the most entertaining fighters in the sport. Diaz puts asses in the seats, and give the paying $$$ audience what they’ve come for (*well, when he has a game opponent who will actually engage in a fight with him, lol). There is much reason why they would want to keep him around, regardless of how the people who hat Nick think / feel.
*hate
Thank you for saying that! Where the hell are those conspiracy theorist who thought he got busted just so he wouldn’t get a 2nd shot at Condit?
no one is saying that Diaz is just an idiot and forgot to drink the right fluids to flush the traces of THC out of his system before he got tested, what a smuck
Someone in another forum was spamming conspiracy crap that took up most of the page.
those boys get so high they ain’t never coming down, stockton represent. Diaz is beating all your fave fighters and he’s getting high in the process
HELL YEAH!!!Diaz is the man so what he likes to get high.he’s still one of the last true fighters left.
diaz can only outbox the short guys by using his reach advantage but when he faces a fighter with his high he got do shit.
I love it!! HAHA haters gon hate but like him or not Nick is becoming one of the Ufcs golden childs. And big deal he smoked half of the the fighters go out and sniff coke and drink at their after party. It’s not like they can prove he was high during the fight and isnt a commission member with them all day before the fight? so he probably was mad he lost and needed a lil something to cheer up. Half you guys on here only hate nick cuz HE BEAT BJ life goes on I’m still a fan of both fighters but someone had to win.
Eating tater chips after is always fun.
I would rather watch Nick Diaz over GSP any day. Greg Jackson holds GSP back. This boring win at any cost shit is ruining MMA. Jon Jones is the only exciting fighter he trains.
MMA would not be where it is today without Griffin/Bonner, Liddell/Couture, Henderson/Shogun. Not one of Greg Jackson’s fighters mentioned there.
And now Greg and Co. are trying to turn Condit into one of those boring ass “out point him for the win!!” fighters.
Before Jackson turned them to the dark side, both Georges and Carlos used to be fun fighters to watch (I miss the days when Georges was kicking Matt Hughes in the head & finishing, kneeing Matt Serra into submission). Where Carlos’ career goes from here on out, who knows, but it’s very unlikely he’ll “out point” GSP.
One fight and you call Condit a point-getter, how about Diaz who lost the fight, he didnt finish condit or win on the points card, too bad so sad
Condit will do the same shit against gsp and do the same shit over and over if he wins the belt, that’s what Greg Jackson does turns his amazing fighters into points fighters
Good news…he wasn’t clean so what rather that than peds, he come to fight regardless and is a real fighter. He tell it how it is and I like that. Who doesn’t like to smoke weed? I love it
Why should he be cut. GSP greased up and still kept his job. GSP cheated, if any thing the weed slowed Diaz down. Plus he has a medical card. GSP doesn’t have a lube card officially given to him by vaseline.
You are correct True Mma but KY has issued him a license so he’s good.
technically his card is CA issued and only good in CA, not Nevada.
The sport needs bad boys like Nick Diaz – he is the guy everyone loves to hate.
I’m more surprised that condit changed his fighting style. So what nick tested positive, he’s the only dog that showed up to the dog fight.
Been following Diaz since 06 and he’s always brought that just scrap mentality to mma, he shows up to fight as fighters should. Thank god smart people are in charge not all these haters!
Jesus people, stop complaining! No matter how much you guys bitch and moan it won’t sway the UFC’s decision. Grow up!
People still have a right to bitch and moan. Soooooooooo, realize that there is a First Amendament Right and, ahem, grow up.
i guess its safe to most mma fans like taters
damn, a year without Nick Diaz… bad news for the UFC and fans. And this is one of the many reasons why people don’t like him. He seems to think only about himself and complain when he doesn’t get his way…
IMO opinion Bisping won his fight as much as Diaz did his, there shouldn’t be a rematch either way, i though diaz and bisping won but they didnt and both of em will finish next time. As for pot it should not be in the same category at other “performance enhancing” drugs
Sonnen and his steroids gets a chance to fight for the title, why shouldn’t Diaz and his weed not get one?
agreed.. so many people hate nick but by hating on nick you’re really hating on fighting in general IMO.
For me it’s not that I’m hating on the guy. I actually get pumped to see Nick fight, well both the Diaz boys. But with Nick scrambling around there’s always ****ing drama and as fans we don’t get to see the fights that were setup. He could have fought GSP months ago if he’d just show up to the presser. & Now this shit. I honestly think that the UFC is too much for the guy. He seemed to handle it all in Strikeforce.
For me it’s not that I’m not gay, because I am. It’s just that I forgot that Condit’s fight with GSP was cancelled because GSP pulled out of the fight due to injury. So even if Diaz did show up to the press conferences, they wouldn’t have fought anyway.. So sorry. ever since coming out of the closet, I’ve been so forgetful. Like forgeting that I said I wouldn’t be on bjpenn.com ever again. So sorry for that and being gay.
Wow.. I stumble on this site once and i will not return. Very ignorant fanbase, one after another. I’m farely confident Diaz did not stand a chance against gsp, it wouldn’t have played out the way all you Diaz fans are hoping. And people who like the whole ‘bad boy, straight fighter’ image should look at boxing, there’s dozens of Diaz’s. Nothing original or ‘cool’ just bad for the sport of mma.
UFC can make money of Diaz now. They invested in him so they need to get their money back with some profit. Yeah he “retired” but we all knew that he would be back. If he was not a big draw right now then they would make another “example” of him and “never” let him back in the UFC. Where there is money to be made, the UFC will find a way to capitalize. Don’t get it twisted. Business first. ALWAYS.
Lol he wouldnt have fought gsp cuz gsp pulled out.. sucks hes gettin suspended but ill bet hell come back strong
N he clearly doesnt like all the attention the comes wit ufc. e.g. missed pressers and smokes weed prolly more due to fight time stress and dealin wit media.. jus let dude do his thing n see u on fight night
Not surprised, they would never give up the money he brings in. Sad to think though, Diaz is a horrible image for this sport.
I cant see how Diaz can be band over pot where are the studies 2 show that its a performance inhancer ???? UFC & State athletic commity are banbing 1 of the best P4P fighters over POT we need Diaz & so does the sport
So let me get this straight; he can use a drug that, at the time he used it, was illegal according to the Federal Government? So if that’s the case, then fighters could use Meth, or Cocaine, or PCP before a fight and keep their jobs with the UFC.