Nick Diaz does not play well with others. Everyone in the MMA world knows this. UFC President Dana White knows this. When White told reporters that Diaz has not shown up for three separate interviews to promote the fight, it should have been no shock to anyone, because it wasn’t to him.

White was asked about if he would encourage fighters to start doing video blogs the week of their scheduled fights. This led to the reporter saying Diaz would be an interesting vlog to watch. “Nick Diaz would be an interesting Countdown show too if we could get him to show up for those,” White responded. “Imagine how good his Countdown show would be. F–king think his video blog would be great? How about if he had a professionally shot, by professionals, the best in the business, the best at cutting and producing features on athletes, imagine how f–king good that would be. First we’ve got to get him to show up for the f–king interviews, and then we can do it. He missed, how many did he miss? Four? Three. He’s missed three.”

He’s done this before; Diaz was awarded a title shot for his first appearance in the UFC following an impressive run at Welterweight in Strikeforce. After defending his title against Paul Daley he vacated the title to fight GSP for the UFC Welterweight championship at UFC 137. After missing multiple flights and press conferences White made the move to pull Diaz’s shot and gave it to Carlos Condit.

Diaz was also supposed to show up at the World Jiu-Jitsu Expo in 2012. He was set to fight Braulio Estima in a charity grappling match, but once again no-showed with zero explanation. A pattern has been set by Diaz, this is how he rolls.

“He showed up for the press conference. I knew something was going to go bad somewhere,” White said. “It’s just, that’s Nick.” Dana White could have summed it up by saying, “Same ol’ Diaz.”

Promoting fights is a part of the business; Diaz has never been a fan of doing any kind of promotions. He has always been an awkward interview. Watch any interview Diaz has done, you can tell by the way he answers questions and his body language that he has no interest in being there. The fact of the matter is he is an interesting character, and most importantly an entertaining fighter.

Nick Diaz is set to face Georges St. Pierre at UFC 158 on March 16th in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is not in the title fight because he earned it (he lost his last fight and is coming off a year suspension for failing his post UFC 143 fight drug test) it’s because St. Pierre wanted to fight him. Don’t expect White to pull this title shot from Diaz, because of that fact.

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