LAS VEGAS – UFC president Dana White understands why Nick Diaz is upset, even if he doesn’t agree with the fighter’s belief that he won Saturday’s UFC 143 main event.
He also understands if Diaz goes through with an announced retirement, even if he thinks it’d be financially foolish to do so.
Quite simply, White has given up on trying to predict the 28-year-old’s often-erratic behavior.
“You never know with Nick Diaz,” White said. “You never know. I think he’s just upset right now, and I think he’s emotional, but who knows?”
Diaz (27-8 MMA, 7-5 UFC) suffered a unanimous-decision loss to Condit (28-5 MMA, 5-1 UFC) at UFC 143. Saturday’s pay-per-view fight, which took place at Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Events Center, saw Condit implement the perfect game plan for defeating one of MMA’s most effective and relentless fight styles. Condit stuck, move, struck and reset to frustrate Diaz over the five-round fight, which earned Condit the UFC’s interim welterweight title a...
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