Nick Diaz
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Early Career
Nick Diaz (born August 2, 1983) started his Mixed Martial Arts career on August 31, 2001 with a match that lasted only 3:43, resulting in a Triangle Choke victory over Mike Wick. In his next match Nick picked up a decision win over future UFC fighter, Chris Lytle, becoming the IFC Welterweight Champion in the process.
On September, 28, 2002, Diaz returned to action, this time participating in three fights, all on the same night. Nick won his first two outings beating Blaine Tyler, by TKO, and Adam Lynn by Armbar. In the final match of Ultimate Athlete's King of the Mountain, Diaz was stopped by the punches of Jeremy Jackson, losing the single evening tournament.
After going 1-1 in his next two fights Diaz was brought into the WEC for a Welterwight title fight, against Joe Hurley. Diaz won by Kimura at 1:55 of the first round. Next came a pair of rematches with Jeremy Jackson, the second of which would also be Nick's UFC debut. Diaz won both contests, the first by the TKO, and the second by submission.
UFC Career
Diaz's next seven fights were all held in the UFC and include wins over Robbie Lawler, Drew Fickett, and Koji Oishi, as well as losses to Diego Sanchez, Joe Riggs, Karo Parisyan and Sean Sherk. To date Nick Diaz is the only man who holds a KO victory over Robbie Lawler in professional competition.
Diaz had proven to be an exciting fighter, both in and out of the ring. He is known for expletives and middle-fingers, as well as his loyalty to his brother, Nathan Diaz, and to his hometown of Stockton California. It was in his hometown that he would fight his first match outside of the UFC in nearly three years, winning a decision over Ray Steinbeiss at the International Cage Fighting Organization's inaugural event.
After winning his ICFO bout, Diaz returned for a final two matches in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Fights against Josh Neer, and Gleison Tibau yielded wins via Kimura, and TKO, respectively.
Japan and EliteXC
PRIDE Fighting Championship and the opportunity to face Takanori Gomi awaited, and Diaz made his way to Japan for his next fight. Nick Diaz's hand was raised after he ended the battle with a Gogoplata, however his victory was later overturned. In a highly controversial decision the Nevada State Athletic Commission changed the win to a loss, subsequent to a positive marijuana test. Diaz later claimed to have a prescription for the drug.
In his next match Diaz won EliteXC's 160lb. title, only to lose it in his first defense; a cut stoppage to K.J. Noons, which the Stockton native protests even now. After the loss to Noons, Nick returned to Japan in order to fight Katsuya Inoue, whom he defeated by TKO at Dream 3. Since then Diaz has fought twice more for EliteXC, scoring TKO wins over both Muhsin Corbbrey and Thomas Denny.
Present - Strikeforce
Scott Coker's Strikeforce organization acquired Elite XC's contracts, and Diaz was featured in the main event of the "Strikeforce 2.0" event on the Showtime network, competing against former Strikeforce and UFC middleweight champion Frank "The Legend" Shamrock at a catchweight of 180 pounds. Diaz was confident throughout the bout, visibly smack-talking and mean-mugging Shamrock, who succumbed to a Diaz body-shot late in the second round and was ground-and-pounded by Diaz until referee Big John McCarthy stopped the action. Diaz showed great sportsmanship by helping Shamrock up after the fight, calling the fallen vet "a legend," who "says what [Diaz] wants to say and does what [Diaz] wants to do."
Diaz is next scheduled to face off against UFC and Strikeforce vet Scott Smith on the main card of the Showtime event "Shields vs. Lawler," on June 6th, 2009. The bout will be at a catchweight of 180 pounds.
CagePotato Fun Fact: Nick Diaz once commented to CP writer, Ben Fowlkes;
"Truth is, if you didn't graduate with honors and a scholarship from wrestling or football or are some type of super athlete like that, then you probably never got high with the homies in high school and would be way too paranoid as a result of smoking weed now days and are probably a bitch and I would probably slap and you'd cry."
Mixed martial arts record
18-7-0-1(No Contest)
| 27 matches | 19 wins | 7 losses |
| By knockout | 11 | 2 |
| By submission | 5 | 0 |
| By decision | 3 | 5 |
| Draws | 0 | |
1 No Contest, due to commissioner's reversal of a win over Takanori Gomi, subsequent to a failed test for marijuana. The NSAC decision to overturn Diaz's victory was highly controversial, and remains as the only accusation of using marijuana as a performance enhancing substance in Mixed Martial Arts.
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