Nick Diaz is being forced to withdraw from his fight against Katsuya Inoue at DREAM 3 this Sunday, May 11, at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, according to Josh Gross at SportsIllustrated.com.
Apparently there is a stipulation in all Elite XC fighter contracts that says if they’re scheduled to compete on a Showtime event then they cannot compete in any other sanctioned fight within 30 days of that event. And Diaz is scheduled to fight on June 14 against Muhsin Corbbrey on Showtime.
That would technically be 33 days, but that’s a little too close for comfort for Live Events President Gary Shaw and Elite XC.
The promotion’s reluctance to let its guy compete with such little time in between is understandable, considering they already lost one co-main event for the June 14 show when Drew Fickett had to withdraw from his welterweight title fight against Jake Shields because of a knee injury.
Originally when Elite XC and Gary Shaw signed off to let Diaz compete for DREAM he was supposed to be on the DREAM 2 card on April 29; however, according to Shaw, DREAM moved his fight to the May 11 DREAM 3 card without his approval.
Shaw claims he didn’t know anything about this switch until he read about it on the Internet two days ago.
Here’s a snip from Diaz’s trainer Cesar Gracie:
“We put these two organizations in contact with each other. They were supposed to figure it out but there was some miscommunication somewhere.”
This seems like the millionth time a Nick Diaz fight has been canceled in the past couple months. Are we ever going to see this kid fight? Hopefully, the Corbbrey scrap on June 14 actually happens.
But at this rate don’t hold your breath.
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Surprise, Surprise.
I bet $10 that Muhsin Corbbrey pulls out of the fight one week before the event.
nick has too much on his plate right now and should stick w/elite and try and make that work out. these cross-promotions and non-exclusive contracts are alittle trickier than shaw first thought. shaw seems to be getting smarter by the day, but i still question his motives.
I was so happy when I heard that this fight was going to go down, but I had a bad feeling about it. Combine unorganized Japanease way of operations with Nick Diaz is a combo for a let down!
I really do hope to see him fight in DREAM eventually. I think there are some good match ups for him in Japan, and I really want to see him fight under the Japanease rules again because although he fougfht in PRIDE, it was in Vegas. I want to see him under the japanease rules bad!
recent randy couture interview: “Silva should be allowed to box jones.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZBHvt_j-D8
“I think it’s short-sided for the UFC to try and keep him from doing that. He should be allowed to do that and get that notoriety, showcase his skills in the boxing arena and frankly, where else is he going to make that kind of money? I mean, it’s ridiculous that they’re not allowing him to do that. That’s a life changing event for a guy like Anderson,”
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Couture talks more about the upcoming clash between Fedor and Tim Sylvia, which he plans on attending in person, his upcoming role in the movie Redbelt, hunting with Brett Favre and much more.
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rnady needs to shut up about the ufc and worry about his own failing ventures(affliction)
the only reason jones vs silva was ever discussed in the 1rst place, is because of silva being in the ufc!
i think he’s really trying to make fans angry and make the UFC look more like an evil empire for not crosspromoting and not allowing the royjones fight happen, so that he would get his fedor fight.
but frankly, i dont really care if they do fight.
randy should just stop whining, honor his contract then sign on another org to fight fedor. is that hard to do? the time he’s been idle coulve been spent finishing his contract then he would be training for fedor instead of being stuck inside this legal mess.
totally agree! a fight w/ big nog would be huge for randy and definitely a great challenge. something or someone got into that mans head and he is not the same person he used to be. maybee he never was that person. i do know that before he resigned he was the most honored fighter ever in the ufc.
B.W: I could not agree more. You said it all!
What has gotten into that 1 time honarable man to think that a fight against Nogueira isn’t HUGE!!! IMO it would be the biggest fight of his life. I would remember that fight more then the chuck Liddell fights, or the Big Tim fight.
I am the biggest Fedor fan in the world, but IMO for Randy, a fight against Nog would be just as big for him as a fight against Fedor. Both Fedor and Nog are much morte accomplished HW fighters. Randy bounced around a bit between divisions, and I think his biggest fights were at 205. Nog and Fedor both always fought at HW (although at times when fighting in other cultures, they had to face smaller opponents)
Everyone bashes Fedor for fighting Lindland
But Nobody bitches about Nogueira fighting Henderson (a couple times).
I actually think that to the casual fans (which is who drive the market) Randy vs. Nog is even a bigger fight. By now all the casuals know that Nog is UFC champion and he finished Tim, but a lot of them might not even know who Fedor is.
Randy wopuld be smarter to take the Nog fight in a big proven organization like the UFC, command a portion of pay oer view sales (which will be a ton)….make his money to keep Yoko Couture happy (wife kim)and just loose his title like a man.
Instead, he is breaking his contractual obligations, loosing fans by the day to chase Fedor in all kinds of different organizations and for what? To get the beating of his life from Fedor? All this work, to get the crap kicked out of you?
Dude, seems more and more senile everytime there is a new interview. “Only fight that makes sense is Fedor”….What? He hasnt beaten any top heavyweights except Sylvia, but he doesnt think there are any challenges out there for him.
How about you try to beat one of these guys first Randy, any will do…I want to see this great Heavyweight everyone talks about that I think has been overhyped. People need to realize he has never fought/beaten:
Arlovski
Nogueira
Fedor
Barnett
Thats 4 legit challenges for Randy and I dont know that he can win any of them. He has been in the UFC at the same time as Arlovski for like 6 years now, why havent you fought him yet Randy?
Nogueira is calling you out waiting for him in the Octagon, but “the onlyt fight that makes sense is Fedor” F*** OFF Randy…
Go fight Bob Sapp in Japan! He is just turning into a silly old man….He really had me fooled!
completely agree dude…beating syvia was cool and beating gonzaga was tight too, but neither of those guys are big nog…i’ve always said randy is overhyped, way overhyped…i think its obvious he wanted to ride this overhypedness to a mega fight with the best in the world and was scared that if he fought nog he’d lose not only the fight, but the chance at retiring completely on top…my bottom line is and always has been that couture is scared to fight anybody else because losing to anyone but fedor would discredit what he’s been able to do since coming back…..at least if he lost to fedor he could say hey, that guy is the best and maybe i’m just number two…then he’d still have his legacy and his mega fight dollars…but if he lost to nog, people would say yeah he beat sylvia, but maybe sylvia overlooked him and yeah he beat gonzaga, but maybe because gonzaga broke his nose, but he couldn’t beat nog, so what was all that fedor hype even about, its been proven nog isn’t as good as fedor…randy doesn’t want to get exposed for what he is, and its a smart move for his legacy i guess, but only because he’s more overhyped right now than he’ll ever be……hope that made sense, i was kind of rambling
but i think the reason people were more upset that fedor fought lindland than they were when nog fought dan is because at the time fedor and lindland fought pride had just vanished and people wanted, no needed, to see fedor in the ufc against the best they had to offer…people looked at that like, why is this guy fighting lindland in bodog when we want him to be fighting arlovski, randy, timmy, etc. in the ufc….at least when nog fought henderson it was early in his carreer, and the second time was more so because the first fight was so close, and at least that fight for nog was surrounded by big time heavyweight fights against fedor, ricco, mirko, schilt, sapp, herring, blah blah blah
Yeah, I agree that “at the time” fighting Lindland wasn’t the greatest Idea, but that was the fall back plan. The original plan was Bodog Offering Randy 2 million to come out of retirement to fight Fedor. Instead Randy chose to return to the UFC to fight Sylvia for a title shot. Then, that contract wasnt good enough, and the only fight that makes sense is Fedor….. I had it up to hear with Coutture. I am torn between not wanting Couture to get his way and not be allowed to fight Fedor, and Couture Fighting Fedor and recieving the beating of his life!
I wasnt trying to discredit Nogueira in my previous post. By now everyone should now how much I appreciate the UFC’s heavyweight division being represented by such a legend (Nog)
Captain SCUMBAG!!! I hope you made some good money selling your picks to people, Randy! I hope your ugly wife leaves you and takes EVERYTHING!!!!!
I thought this last week. I knew he was scheduled to fight in June. I love this kid, he would fight every month if he could. I wish more fighters were like this. Most guys want 4 months to train. I like the guys who are always training and will take a fight on short notice! Too bad, but I can wait another month to see him kick some ass
This is for most people who say the UFC should cross promote. Look at the problems that these two orgs. have just to have this fight happen. It’s not as easy as most people may think.
of course it is, this was just thrown together last minute. When elite/strikeforce or others do it and plan it, there isn’t any problem. it’s called a plan!
Nooooooo..What the fuck?
I just finished replying to VM’s post about Diaz, and then I click the ufcblog to refresh the page, and what pops up?? “Diaz fight scratched”..
Damn thats a kick in the nuts.lol.
that was Diaz’s 2 fight shot at the DREAM WW title against Sakurai! What the hell is Gary’s problem? i’d rather them push the Cobbrey fight back to let Nick go compete in Japan where there’s actually competition we’ve heard of. I swear elitexc is fuccin up diaz’s career.
Kama Kaze you are so right! Forget the Cobbrey fight, this was the path to a big fight with Mach, and that is a fight I am dying to see.
We spent all week singing Gary Shaws praises and now he mma-cock-blocks us! WTF!!! He just wanted some good press for like 3 days for a change, so he probably fabricated the whole story…Fat greedy, boxing promoting pig! I spent like 15 minutes writing a nice puff piece about him earlier this week…IT HAS BEEN RECINDED…
“Good Day!…. I say Good Day!” lol
lol. the dude wears sweat suits to press confrences.
yes. mma-cock-block is a word that comes to mind. yes. i’m retracting gary shaw praise. he doesn’t care THAT much. lol. it would be better if it were the other way around where diaz/melendez had longterm contract with DREAM and MAYBE squeeze in a fight or 2 with exc\strikeforce at their leisure cuz they are now a couple of contenders stranded on unknown fighter island. 1 loss to a guy like Noons and all of a sudden, KJ is special & everybodys says diaz sux. wtf?! at least they’re trying to get shields a fickett fight(if that ever happens), but after that, then who? how are these guys going to stay ranked fighting UFC rejects? wouldn’t be so bad if elitexc LW & WW division was so shallow. steady paycheck might feel good now, but having a bad night losing to amateur nobodys could destroy their name\career and then a guy like Jake can forget about UFC because Dana said you lost to a scrub (hypothetically). no way in hell Dana sends GSP to exc to fight Shields. exc needs to start fishing in a pool of credible/established fighters if they really want to help these guys out. they’re not newbies like kimbo who need to be built up. these guys are wasting their prime away @ a the joke of all promotions. the ceaser gracie guys don’t belong there right now.
Kama: U r absolutely right. Ceaser Gracie’s whole camp needs to get out from under ProElite. Like you said, its the 1 big organization, that has no challengers for any of them. That organization has no depth in any divisions. Sheilds, Nick, Gilbert are all taking big risks by fighting unknowns (like you said).
They should all just sign with the UFC while their stock is High.
u made a great point that it would be much better if they werefighting in DREAM and occasionally fighting for EliteXC…the other way around SUXS!!!
Its Officail! I have coined a new word: MMA-Cock-Blocking! Its really pretty accurate! Left me with mma-blue-ballz! lol
Wow, what surprise…another canceled Diaz fight…
NOOOOO…THIS SUCKS!!