Nick Diaz som hintade på att han går i pension för tredje gången efter hans förlust mot Anderson Silva. Hans tränare Cesar Gracie tror däremot inte att det var sista gången vi får se Stockton-sonen i oktagonen.
Efter hans match mot Anderson Silva under UFC 183 testade Nick Diaz positivt för marijuana och förmodligen väntar en ganska lång avstängning för honom. Det kan vara en av anledningarna till att Diaz inte vill fortsätta tävla mer men han har redan hunnit gå i pension tre gånger efter hans tre senaste matcher.
Hans BJJ-tränare Cesar Gracie förklarade under The MMA Hour:
”Let’s face it. He’s a fighter and he’s gonna fight. It’s gonna happen.”
”I think a guy like him is better served doing big fights, no matter where they’re at. Seriously, no matter where the fight is, even if he has to go down a lighter weight than even 170. He wants big fights. That’s what motivates him. I think that’s what the greatest guys did was they didn’t look so much at weight classes, but they looked at the big fights that motivate them.”
Gracie nämner att fortsatta matcher i mellanviktsdivisionen är en möjlighet i framtiden för Nick Diaz.
”Who wouldn’t want to see Vitor Belfort or someone like that fight Nick? Or who wouldn’t want to see maybe Nick beat a 170-pounder and then fight Lawler if that’s what they have to happen? There’s different scenarios I think that would be fun. I don’t want to see Nick go out there and fight some guy he never heard of at 170 or some up-and-comer. He’s already past all that. He deserves the respect of having big fights.”
Gracie fortsätter, ”Personally, best-case scenario without a doubt would have been for him to have gotten the nod, beaten Anderson Silva. And then we’d be seeing Nick-Lawler II and I think that would be a fan favorite. I think that would be incredible, that fight. The build-up to that would be so huge. Now with Nick losing a decision, that fight probably isn’t gonna be on the table.”
