Siyar “Siyar The Great” Bahadurzada also weighs in on the recent Nick Diaz no-show and makes light of the situation.
Earlier, the Afghan fighter currently campaigning in the UFC welterweight division tweeted the following: “The Nick Diaz version of ‘I’m gonna make you an offer you cannot refuse’ will be: ‘I’m gonna give you a reason you cannot understand!'”
The controversial elder brother of UFC lightweight fighter Nate Diaz was a no-show last night for his highly-anticipated grappling match versus multiple-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion Braulio Estima for the World Jiu-Jitsu Expo in Long Beach, Calif. And what infuriated his opponent (who came all the way from the United Kingdom) and fans more was that Diaz pledged to donate all his winnings as charity to a children’s hospital.
Online MMA forums soon raged on the issue.
Fans posted stories that Diaz supposedly backed out without prior notice from their main event because Estima was overweight the day before the match, during the alleged originally-scheduled weigh-in. This is regardless that seemingly all parties agreed to another weigh-in the following day (yesterday), right before the competition itself.
Estima stated that he eventually made weight. Here is his version and sentiment on what happened, via Twitter:
I weighed in at 180lbs this morning at 10 am as agreed and asked to see nicks weighing too but I was informed by Cesar his Coach that he was 180lbs in the previous night and that he ate and is over 180lbs even though I just let it go an still showed up to fight. What pisses me off the most is that he was telling he was going to give his purse to charity for the childrens hospital and than don’t show up. What kind of person is that. Shame. Ps. I’m sorry for all the ones who stayed up to watch this fight but I’m sure the prelims fights was amazing. Thank u all for the support always.
Diaz also avoided the two press conferences of UFC 137 in 2011, which originally pitted him against the welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre for the main event. Their title fight also did not push through.
More on Siyar the Great
Bahadurzada is coming off a victorious UFC debut fight, an impressive first-round 42-second KO of Brazilian veteran Paulo Thiago on April 14, 2012 at UFC on FUEL TV in Stockholm, Sweden. The finishing win also earned him the Knockout of the Night award.
Bahadurzada will fight Thiago Alves next on July 21, 2012 at UFC 149, as original opponent Yoshihiro Akiyama was replaced due to injury.
The former Shooto middleweight champion who trains out of Team Golden Glory in Deventer, Netherlands, currently holds a 21-4-1 record. He is on a seven-fight winning streak and has won 11 by knockout and six by submission in his entire MMA career.
Bahadurzada’s first 14 MMA fights were all held in the Netherlands, which started with a first-round KO win in March 8, 2002.
His first fight out of Netherlands and Europe was in Tokyo, Japan, wherein he snatched the Shooto middleweight title by beating Shiko Yamashita by unanimous decision on July 15, 2007.
Of his six fights in the Land of the Rising Sun, he won four and lost two. One of his losses was to Jorge Santiago, by heel hook submission, in Sengoku 6 on November 1, 2008 in Saitama. The other one was due to a guillotine choke in the hands of Kazuo Misaki in Sengoku 1, on March 5, 2008 in Tokyo.
One of the highlights of his career prior to the UFC was stopping by TKO (punches and knees) the veteran Canadian John Alessio, in the first round of their fight for UGlory 13 in Charleroi, Belgium. (Alessio is currently fighting again for the UFC.)
Bahadurzada was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan, for 15 years before his family migrated to the Netherlands in 1999. He said he developed his fighter’s instinct and strong character to the war-torn and perilous environment of his country of birth.
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