It’s been a minute since Nick Diaz had a fight, and fighters’ preparation methods always are evolving.
There’s no way to be sure that’s what’s going on here, but hell – it’s Nick Diaz. Can anyone ever be sure if there’s method to the proverbial madness?
A month out from his first fight in more than three years, and just his third in the past decade, a shirtless man who appears to be Diaz can be seen on a video on social media (H/T ParryPunch) attempting to light a piece of grass in some landscaping in front of a business.
A woman calls out to “Nick” on the video and asks if he’s OK, and he twice answers he is. We’ll let you make up your own mind if he’s right about that.
NEW: A video of Nick Diaz, by himself, shirtless in public, trying to light a random piece of grass on fire has surfaced online ahead of his MMA return against Vicente Luque on Dec. 7.
Thoughts on this video surfacing shortly after his fight with Luque got announced?
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Diaz (26-10 MMA, 7-7 UFC) is scheduled to fight Vicente Luque (22-10-1 MMA, 15-6 UFC) at UFC 310 on Dec. 7 in Las Vegas. The two first were booked to fight in August, but the fight was shifted to next month.
Diaz has not won a fight since October 2011 against B.J. Penn at UFC 137. He lost three straight fights after that to Carlos Condit, Georges St-Pierre in a title fight and Anderson Silva, which later was flipped to a no contest when they both failed drug tests.
After an absence of 6.5 years, Diaz returned in 2021 and was stopped by Robbie Lawler in the third round.
It’s been about 15 years, longer than the average MMA career, since Diaz was rolling on an 11-fight winning streak against the likes of Penn, Paul Daley, KJ Noons and Scott Smith in Strikeforce. Along with his younger brother Nate, he remains a big draw in combat sports despite his inactivity.
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