Nick Diaz is ready to make his return to motion on August third in Abu Dhabi. It’s his first struggle since a dispiriting loss to Robbie Lawler in 2021, and followers are hopeful Diaz is wholesome now and ready for a troublesome struggle towards No. 13 ranked welterweight Vicente Luque.
Nick’s former head coach Cesar Gracie can also be hoping for the most effective, though he admitted to having some considerations about Nick’s preparations for the struggle. Given the one-foot-in, one-foot-out nature of Nick’s profession over the previous a number of years, that’s not precisely reassuring.
“I’m actually not concerned in that struggle,” Gracie instructed Submission Radio. “I’m gonna be completely sincere with you, that wasn’t my thought. If I used to be advising Nick, I wouldn’t have suggested him to try this struggle. It’s in Abu Dhabi. I wouldn’t advise to go struggle abroad at this level. Particularly [to fight] Luque, who’s a really powerful man.”
“Nick is a troublesome man. However it simply doesn’t make that a lot sense to me the place Nick is at in his profession. It’s not the struggle I’d have made, and don’t even know what’s happening with that struggle, to be sincere with you.”
“It’s a toss-up what’s gonna occur,” he mentioned earlier than saying he hasn’t been concerned within the Luque camp. “I don’t actually see him coaching with fighters. And I don’t know what’s happening with that struggle.”
Whereas Gracie confirmed that he nonetheless spoke with Diaz repeatedly, the Stockton legend is at present coaching in Houston, Texas and hasn’t been again to coach with the Skrap Pack or his little brother Nate for months. He didn’t even make it to Anaheim for Nate’s struggle towards Jorge Masvidal (watch the highlights right here).
“He’s simply probably not a part of the the coaching with the blokes proper now,” Cesar mentioned. “Like usually proper now, he’d be coaching with Jake Shields. He’d be coaching along with his brother. He would have been sparring. Nick was not there final night time, for instance, for Nate’s struggle.”
“No unhealthy blood or something in any way. It’s simply I believe that the folks which can be holding on to Nick proper now in Texas wanna maintain on to Nick. And so I hope they take excellent care of him.”
Whereas Diaz and Gracie go method again and are virtually household, generally it’s a must to step away from household to flee unhealthy habits. Photos of Nick popping out of Houston have the Stockton native wanting ripped as he does roadwork with “The Black Beast” Derrick Lewis. If he doesn’t blow off struggle camp to go on a bender (and who would try this), we might see a wholesome and effectively ready Nick Diaz in Abu Dhabi.
And as we noticed within the Nate Diaz vs. Jorge Masvidal rematch, a wholesome and effectively ready Diaz brother is one thing to behold.
