“What happened? I didn’t even know there was a call,” Nick Diaz said after calling in late to the prefight media call for UFC 137.
After squandering a welterweight title shot due to missing multiple press conferences, Nick Diaz was once again noticeably absent from a media conference. This time, however, Diaz eventually showed up and had an excuse for his tardiness, stating that he had not been informed of the call.
After an injury forced his originally scheduled opponent, Georges St-Pierre, out of UFC 137’s main event, Diaz will again serve as one of the headlining fighters at the event. Instead of St-Pierre, Diaz is now matched up against B.J. Penn, who was first expected to fight Carlos Condit, the fighter who replaced Diaz as top welterweight contender.
Diaz has woven a tangled web that has muddled the welterweight title picture. With a loss to Penn at UFC 137, Diaz may never be afforded another opportunity to compete for a UFC title.
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