Kvällssvepet: Tränare intygar att Nick Diaz blivit drogad innan GSP-matchen

I början av månaden hävdade Nick Diaz att han blivit drogad inför sin match mot George St Pierre. Nu får han stöd från sin tränare.

I en intervju med Submission radio pratade Richard Perez, boxningstränare för Diazbröderna, om något som ägde rum dagen innan UFC 158 när Nick Diaz (26-9) tog sig an Georges St Pierre (25-2) om titeln.

Perez hävdar att han var på plats när en sköterska kom in till Diaz och injekterade honom med något märkligt via dropp.

”I was there. It was Geroge St Pierres nurse or something, he came to give Nick some stuff. That’s what he was talking about … I’m not saying it was drugs or something, but I just know it made him look different … I just know I was sitting there and the guy wanted to give him something. I don’t know what it was for. I told him no, but he said it wouldn’t even hurt him. It was strange.”

På frågan om varför han tror att det var St Pierres sköterska, svarade Perez att mannen sagt att han jobbade för kanadensaren.

Perez vet inte exakt vad det var Diaz fick, han vet bara att det gjorde honom uttorkad.

”He was up all night urinating. I mean he wasn’t feeling good because he was going to the bathroom a lot. I mean, I don’t know what it did, but I know he was going to the bathroom a lot, so it probably dehydrated him and drained him.”

Hittills har Diaz hävdat att alla möjliga märkliga saker ägde rum innan den matchen. Enligt honom missade George St Pierre att klara vikten men kom undan med det. Dessutom hävdar han att den kanadensiska superstjärnan inte testades för doping i sitt hemland.

Diaz – McGregor

Det mesta av intervjun handlade däremot inte om storebror, utan om Nate Diaz (19-10) och hans match om tolv dagar mot Conor McGregor (19-3). Perez pratade om hur självsäker han är inför UFC 202.

Han tycker sig se en mer tillbakadragen och osäker McGregor inför returen och ifrågasätter varför irländaren hade med sig sitt bälte till presskonferensen när det inte står på spel.

”He´s insecure about fighting Diaz, thats why he had the belt up there.”

Lyssna på intervjun nedan för att höra Perez tankar om Nate Diaz lön, hur han resonerar inför matchen och varför det är Dana Whites fel att McGregor är favorit hos spelbolagen.

Foto: Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images

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Joe Rogan och gänget pratar om Diaz – McGregor II

Owen Roddy med ny videoblogg inför UFC 202. Denna gång med lite mer träningsklipp på McGregor. Verkar fokusera på  att avsluta kombinationer med en höger uppercut.

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Ifall Diaz och Perez påståenden stämmer kanske de möttes på lika villkor. Helt galet att GSP lyckades dominera en motståndare i världsklass med magförgiftning annars.

The best laid plans of mice and men: As a coach one of the main aspects of my job is to conceive plans of action that raise the likelihood of an athlete winning an event. Yet despite our best intentions, there is always a good chance of things going awry that require spontaneous change and adaption in the face of unexpected circumstances. All the major MMA fight camps I have been a part of furnished unforeseen incidents and drama that could not have been predicted and which had to be overcome. Probably the most flawless and well run fight camp I ever saw was that of Georges St-Pierre in preparation for Nick Diaz (Interestingly, his prior fight camp with Carlos Condit was probably the worst). We had an excellent game plan, the physical preparation was excellent, superb choice of sparring partners, all match contingencies covered, no injuries, no backstage drama, perfect weight cut – everything was perfect – until the very night before the fight when Georges drank some watermelon juice for rehydration that had been too long out of the fridge and got a badly upset stomach. He spent the entire night vomiting. It was so sad to see such a perfect camp get ruined at the last minute by such a minor oversight. The night of the fight, Mr St-Pierre came in underweight and drained. We had to curtail the warm up for fear of exhausting him before the bout even began. There was some drama with Mr Diaz's camp insisting that both sides have their hand wraps double checked. This was done, but we did not want them to see how bad Mr St-Pierre looked, so he had to put on an act of confidence and vigor when they came in the dressing room. In the end, Mr St-Pierre showed why he was a great champion that night, putting on a dominant shut-out performance to win a unanimous decision – no one in the audience would have guessed how serious a problem he had to overcome. He used a system of pacing the rounds and timing the takedowns and allowing standing escapes to maintain the pace of the fight whilst controlling the action but at the same time, not exhausting himself. It worked brilliantly and the problem was overcome. This kind of adaptation is crucial in fight preparation at all levels.

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McGregor fortsätter sitt angrepp på WWE-brottarna.

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Längtar redan.

UFC 202. #13days

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