Vicente Luque is opening up on his cancelled combat in opposition to Nick Diaz, and “The Silent Murderer” had nothing however love and concern for Nick regardless of this being the second time Diaz has pulled out.
Initially Luque and Diaz had been set to combat on an Abu Dhabi Combat Night time card in August, however that was scrapped and moved again to December. However information got here out over the weekend that Nick was out of the UFC 310 combat with Luque, who’s now set to combat Themba Gorimbo as a substitute.
Video presupposed to be of Diaz has circulated seeming to indicate the MMA legend making an attempt to gentle grass on hearth on the street. Shortly after that popped up, an Instagram submit from a former girlfriend tagged him and skim “Drug dependancy doesn’t final eternally. You both discover sobriety, or it takes your life.”
NEW: A video of Nick Diaz, by himself, shirtless in public, attempting to gentle a random piece of grass on hearth has surfaced on-line forward of his MMA return in opposition to Vicente Luque on Dec. 7.
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MMAMania.com is listening to disturbing experiences on Diaz’s present state of affairs, however specifics haven’t been confirmed right now. We’re not down to take a position, and neither is Diaz’s former opponent Luque.
“I don’t know precisely why,” Luque instructed MMAFighting.com of the combat cancellation. “I noticed that video of him within the streets, and he didn’t look OK. And greater than something, I hope his household and he’s taking good care of himself. I hope he recovers and goes again to his finest state attainable.”
“Once I noticed the video, first, I didn’t know if it was a latest video or not,” he continued. “However I stored considering, if it’s latest, I hope he actually seeks assist to get out of the state of affairs he’s in as a result of Nick is a fighter I adopted since earlier than I used to be within the UFC. He has impressed me lots previously. What he’s achieved, combating legends like B.J. Penn, Georges St-Pierre, Anderson Silva, Carlos Condit, many large names.”
“You see his accomplishments, and see his state at 40 years of age, that’s not how I need to see any fighter.”
Diaz has fought for many of the main MMA promotions over time and was one of many greatest stars within the early 2000s period of the game. He disappeared from the highlight after a 2015 loss to Anderson Silva, returning as soon as in 2021 for an ill-advised rematch with Robbie Lawler. After quitting a minute into spherical 3, experiences emerged that he fought with bulging discs in his neck.
Since then Nick has mentioned he’s wholesome and needed to get to a spot the place he may combat prime names within the UFC once more. Because it stands, he’s in no form to combat in any respect.
“It’s very unhappy to see him at that stage, as a result of I don’t need that for anybody, a lot much less a person that has impressed so many,” Luque mentioned. “If I see he’s not doing nicely, particularly in a case like Nick Diaz’s, I simply want him the perfect. If he had made it to the combat, we’d have fought and I’d do what I’m imagined to do there, but it surely’s clear that’s why it was cancelled. He not within the situation [to fight], and I hope he recovers.”
