‘Mayhem’ Miller Says Fight With Nick Diaz Was Almost Signed Last Week

Filed under: Strikeforce, FanHouse ExclusiveJason “Mayhem” Miller has spent the better part of the last year campaigning for a fight with Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz. Now it seems as if that door may be closing for good.

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Jason “Mayhem” Miller has spent the better part of the last year campaigning for a fight with Strikeforce welterweight champion Nick Diaz. Now it seems as if that door may be closing for good.

“We almost had the fight together,” Miller told MMA Fighting on Wednesday.

Almost, but not quite.

After getting ganged up on by Diaz and his teammates on live network TV in April, the goal of getting Diaz alone in the cage seemed to nearly consume the “Bully Beatdown” star. He printed t-shirts, started a website, and did countless interviews all about how badly he wanted the fight. Now that Strikeforce has decided to match his nemesis up with Evangelista “Cyborg” Santos instead, Miller can’t help but feel a little disappointed.

“I figured that maybe if I made enough noise about it, it would come to fruition,” Miller said. “I knew that one of two things was going to happen. Either I was going to get the fight with Diaz and expose him, show that he’s not some damn unstoppable, pitter-pat punching tank, but just some dude who can get beat up. Or, the other option, I was going to expose him for what he is, which is a guy who picks favorable fights constantly.”

Dear Jason Miller, STFU You Non-Contender. Best Regards, The Gracies

Apparently tired of the rantings provided by Jason “Mayhem” Miller that Strikeforce Welterweight Champion, Nick Diaz is ducking him on a fight, Graciefighter issued this statement today on their website:
As Jason Miller’s rantings become more intense and pathetic, we found it important to refute his incoherent diatribe with reasoning that any child or even Jason […]

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Apparently tired of the rantings provided by Jason “Mayhem” Miller that Strikeforce Welterweight Champion, Nick Diaz is ducking him on a fight, Graciefighter issued this statement today on their website:

As Jason Miller’s rantings become more intense and pathetic, we found it important to refute his incoherent diatribe with reasoning that any child or even Jason Miller himself could understand.

Miller is now demanding a fight with Nick Diaz based on several reasons, none of which include the most fundamental of factors; actually earning a shot at the Champ by working your way up as a viable contender.

Miller has already lost to the only Team Graciefighter he has ever faced; Jake Shields. After the lopsided defeat, Miller was less than gracious, prompting Shields to respond,
“I’m on to bigger & better fights like always. I mean ur last real win was when you beat up your girlfriend and got arrested”

Jake Shields then went on to defeat highly touted Dan Henderson. Henderson had routinely used Miller as a human mop to clean the mats with at Team Quest in Temecula, California.

After Shields’ victory, Miller decided to demand a rematch he had no chance of ever earning. (sound familiar)
This time Miller was foolish enough to interrupt Shields on national television after the greatest win of his career.

Miller subsequently received a deserved thumping from some of Jake’s team mates which even UFC President, Dana White, commenting on Miller stated, “you’ve got this f^*@ing goofball running in saying “Hey where’s my rematch?”, well what did you think was going to happen?”

Miller went on to use the post fight “jumping” as the basis for a match with Nick Diaz. Our camp offered Miller a fight at any weight behind closed doors with Diaz if Miller was not able to move on from his issues with him. Miller has instead crusaded for a payday fight. Publicity stunt?

Nick Diaz being the 170lbs Strikeforce Champion will fight anyone the organization puts in front of him. This includes Jason Miller. Miller has declined to make the 170lbs weight limit he has previously fought in.

Jason Miller has asked Nick Diaz to fight at a “catch-weight”. Miller stated he would fight at the same catch-weight that Diaz had previously fought in. Strikeforce approached our camp with Miller’s request and we accepted the same weight as Diaz’s last catch-weight, 178 + a 1 pound allowance for 179lbs. Diaz has never fought over 180lbs. Miller then changed his mind and declined.

Now wanting the fight at 183lbs (184 with a 1 pound allowance), Miller told anyone that would listen that “Diaz had fought on several occasions at 183lbs.”

Hoping that if he lied enough people would actually beleive him, Miller continues to lie.

Lastly, a desperate Jason Miller has pulled up an interview where Nick Diaz stated that besides 170lbs, he would be also interested in fighting at 155lbs, and 185lbs sometime in the future. Citing this, Miller has become manic in his insistance that Diaz is ducking him.

We wonder if Jorge Gurgel will next cite the same interview as a demand Diaz drops down to 155lbs immediately for a fight or he will also be ducking him?

As the Strikeforce Champion, Nick Diaz will fight at other weight classes, but only against relevant contenders and champions not irrelevant non-contenders.

When Dana White talks of GSP fighting at middle weight, he means against the Anderson Silva’s of the world not the Mayhem Millers. If Miller ever signs with the UFC we would truly like to see Dana’s reaction when the man he refers to as “that F^@*ing goofball” calls out their Welterweight Champ to fight him, a non-contender at middleweight.
Good luck Miller.

Santa’s Little Helpers Bring You the Fix Friday Link Dump

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Will Thiago Alves actually make weight today? Find out during the live UFC 124 Weigh-ins: here.
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Who should you be betting on for UFC 124: St. Pierre vs. Koscheck? Find out: here.

Will Thiago Alves actually make weight today? Find out during the live UFC 124 Weigh-ins: here.

There are other MMA promotions out there besides the UFC…K-1, for example, which holds its 2010 World Grand Prix Finals tonight. CagePotato reminds you: here.

Dana White tweeted that Japan’s Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto signed with the UFC. The Featherweight is expected to take on Demetrious Johnson at UFC 126. Check out how the fight card is shaping up: here.

More about Nick Diaz ducking Jason “Mayhem” Miller in a new video: here.




As Gracie Camp Tries to Flip Script, Things Officially Get Boring in Mayhem-Diaz Feud

(If this fence wasn’t here, Nick Diaz would be in *trouble.* Pic Props: ProMMANow)It started out funny, quickly got silly and the latest news out of the Jason “Mayhem” Miller vs. Nick Diaz tiff just makes us feel tired and sad and a little …


(If this fence wasn’t here, Nick Diaz would be in *trouble.* Pic Props: ProMMANow)

It started out funny, quickly got silly and the latest news out of the Jason “Mayhem” Miller vs. Nick Diaz tiff just makes us feel tired and sad and a little bit annoyed. The weirdly unclickable GracieFighter.com – which according to its own time sigs has been updating its news section about once a month since Jake Shields beat Martin Kampmann back in October – posted an update on Sunday so spinny that it reads like an out-of-work Republican political strategist wrote it after a couple cocktails. Essentially the website is taking it upon itself to call off any potential fight between Diaz and Miller, which – as far we knew – wasn’t happening anyway. It’s probably best if we just let you read it in its entirety but don’t worry, the Gracie camp wrote it, so it’s pretty short.

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State of the Strikeforce Middleweights

Filed under: StrikeforceIn the last three years, the Strikeforce middleweight title has been vacated more times than it’s been defended, and 2010 has been another long year for the promotion’s 185-pound division. Its champion, Jake Shields, whipped its…

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In the last three years, the Strikeforce middleweight title has been vacated more times than it’s been defended, and 2010 has been another long year for the promotion’s 185-pound division. Its champion, Jake Shields, whipped its big free agent acquisition, Dan Henderson — and then promptly bolted for the UFC. And then a much-discussed middleweight tournament failed to materialize.

But there’s some hope that Strikeforce will have big fights in the year ahead, even if the middleweight division fizzled in 2010. Below we look at what some of those big fights might be and where the middleweight belt is headed as we survey the state of the Strikeforce middleweight division.

Video: Watch Jeremy Horn Give a Bully Named ‘Truck’ a Beatdown

(Video courtesy YouTube/ClashofMyAssinYaMind/MTV)I admit that I haven’t  watched many episodes of Bully Beatdown, mostly because the first episode I caught during the first season that saw the bully beat the regional fighter he squared off against…

(Video courtesy YouTube/ClashofMyAssinYaMind/MTV)

I admit that I haven’t  watched many episodes of Bully Beatdown, mostly because the first episode I caught during the first season that saw the bully beat the regional fighter he squared off against. It ruined it for me. It was a misnomer consdidering the bully didn’t get beat down, kind of like Dancing with the Stars which doesn’t feature anyone most peope would consider a star and what they’re doing on the show doesn’t really resemble dancing. False advertising, in my opinion.

Well, I happened to be flipping through the channels on my satellite receiver on Thursday when I stumbled across the episode above featuring Jeremy Horn, so I left it on MTV and watched the show all the way through.

I wasn’t disappointed.

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