FLD's Fighter Of The Week: Nick Diaz
Author : Stephanie Pittman1328895972
FIGHTER OF THE WEEK
NICK DIAZ
IT'S BACK, FLD!!!!
The return of FLD's FOTW is back and who better to showcase than the one fighter everyone has been talking about this week: the one and only Nick Diaz.
Statistics:
Born: Nicholas Robert Diaz
August 2, 1983 (age 28)
Stockton, California, United States
Nationality: American
Height: 6 ft 1 in
Weight: 169 lb
Division: Lightweight (2007) Welterweight (2001-2006) - (2008-2012)
Reach: 76 in
Style: Boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Sambo
Stance: Southpaw
Team: Cesar Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Trainer: Cesar Gracie, Richard Perez, Val Ignatov
Rank: black belt in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Years active: 2001-2012
Achievements:
Strikeforce
Strikeforce Welterweight Championship (One time; First)
Most consecutive Welterweight title defenses (Three)
Most successful Welterweight title defenses (Three)
Tied (Gilbert Melendez) for most consecutive Strikeforce title defenses (Three)
2010 Male Fighter of the Year
2010 Fight of the Year vs. KJ Noons on October 9
Ultimate Fighting Championship
Fight of the Night (One time)
World Extreme Cagefighting
WEC Welterweight Championship (One time; First)
International Fighting Championships
IFC United States Welterweight Championship (One time)
Sherdog
2011 Round of the Year vs. Paul Daley on April 9; Round 1
2011 All-Violence First Team
Inside Fights
2007 MMA Fight of the Year vs. Takanori Gomi on February 24
Nick Diaz has a "love'em or hate'em" type personality, and his current status as a fighter is up in the air. After his loss to Condit for the Interim WW belt at UFC 143 he announced that he would retire from MMA, and then later tested positive for marijuana. The future of Nick Diaz in MMA may be unknown, but that doesn't change the fact that he has put on many great performances in the cage/ring.
The reaction and debate sparked by his loss to Carlos Condit shows that a lot of FightLockdown members love Nick Diaz (one in particular). And when he puts on performances like the one below, how can you not love Nick Diaz?
Diaz is the most talked about fighter this week and we don't know if we will see him in the UFC Octagon again, but I'm sure that wherever he goes, more sparks will fly.
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