Dana: "Nick is Close to Being Dropped from 158

well here we go again

We spent over $50,000 on production costs and the guys are cruising around Stockton, Calif., not interviewing people. It's not funny. It's not funny. We're very cool and very lenient in a lot of ways. I mean, look at this company, you know? We're lenient on a lot of things we let a lot of things slide. But that's just absolute bull--.

"That's not cool, man. We treat Nate and Nick with respect. Any time they come in, they want to negotiate the contracts, we're good to everybody, at least give us the respect to show up, and not blow 50 grand on interviews that you're supposed to do."

When asked if he would consider pulling Diaz from the card as he did from the UFC 137 title fight after Diaz no-showed a press conference, White answered:

"I'm close, man. I'm really clos. And I don't want to be. You know, it sucks, none of this is easy, these two girls [Ronda Rousey and Liz Carmouche] worked their asses off this week, man, and I know what it feels like, it's not fun. It's part of the job. ... This is how it work, okay? This is the job, this is what we do. Go to your job and tell your f---- boss ‘yeah I don't want to do this or do that.' It's part of the job. I've showed the Diaz brothers a ton of respect, show some respect back."

lol

Hendricks is ready. Make the call, Dana.

Nick has no chance and will never win a Ufc title. I hope hendricks gets his shot.

Why do they make it so hard on themselves?

If he shot the Countdown stuff then he's pretty much done other than the week of the fight. Not much he can do to fuck it up but if anyone could find a way

Nick already did the countdown show, Dana's just sore cause he missed a few tapings in the beginning.

And Condit will beat Hendricks

Honestly who the hell cares if Nick does countdown or not he's a fighter for christ sakes it's the promoters job to promote the fight !!!!!!

Eitherway it's not like GSP's fights need much promoting because despite his humping his fighters seems to sell like hotcakes.

it's dana's ego. Any fighter who doesn't kiss his ass goes on his shit list. I mean how fucking hard can it really be to find nick diaz? Send the crew to the gym where he trains every fucking day. Im sure he's there ya know... training for his title fight maybe? Just a guess.

oggy420 wrote:

it's dana's ego. Any fighter who doesn't kiss his ass goes on his shit list. I mean how fucking hard can it really be to find nick diaz? Send the crew to the gym where he trains every fucking day. Im sure he's there ya know... training for his title fight maybe? Just a guess.

Exactly Dana is an egomaniac and bully.

lol at blaming Dana for the Diaz brothers being jackasses. He's in a fight he doesn't deserve in the first place that he already fucked up once. Now I guess Nate is trying to bolster his Diaz image too. Its part of the job deal with it or quit crying about how your underpaid when you keep sabotaging yourself out of a 700k PPV dipshit

cry about it some more. Nick Diaz vs GSP is a huge fucking fight, you can't deny that. This fight had to be made.
Dana acts like this is fucking where's waldo. Stop having the countdown crew "drive around stockton for hours" and go where you know he fucking is. Training at the gym. This doesn't even have to be a story, just send an mma countdown crew to an mma gym to film and interview an mma fighter.

Who's crying? I don't care at all if they do or don't drop Diaz from a fight he isn't going to win. But the fact that people continue to make excuses for this completely juvenile camp is laughable. The UFC has only done about a billion freaking countdown shows, I think they know how to handle them and where to go

Im just not buying that Nick is purposely avoiding them. Is nick hiding somewhere? Is he in a different country or something? Is he in his car fleeing from the countdown crew? Of course not. It's not fucking rocket science to find Nick Diaz in stockton. I'm assuming he's at cesar gracie's training his ass off. Why according to dana is the crew driving around stockton looking down every street for Nick Diaz? Go to the fucking gym and wait for him to show up! Problem fucking solved. Dana is as much to blame in making this a big deal as anyone. And if he actually does pull nick he is retarted and it's clearly nothing more than an ego thing, just like it's been with countless other fighters even legends, who haven't kissed his ass.

Lol it's an ego thing... Involving nick Diaz

Oggy can't see past his homerism. Ana does some dumb shit but you can't put this on him. This is Diaz's responsibility. It's part if his job. He knows it. Or at least should. He doesn't do it then cut him. Simple as that in my mind. Go give his money to Fitch.

I mean why the thought that Diaz is getting into shit because he isn't kissing Dana's ass? He got a title shot as soon as he came over, blew it, and then lost a fight and is still right back in there in line for a big payday. I'd say they are pretty much kissing his ass. Nate just got a title shot...I don't think anyone is out to get the Diaz bros

And Oggy it wouldn't surprise me if they couldn't find him. Did he not lose the shot the first time around because he was supposed to be at a press conference but no one including Cesar knew where he was at for days?

Nick is a fighter not a salesman.

Ali* wrote:

Nick is a fighter not a salesman.

every other fighter out there promotes, why have special rules for the special Diaz bros? Get out of here with that shit Ali

killerofchicken wrote:

Ali* wrote:

Nick is a fighter not a salesman.

every other fighter out there promotes, why have special rules for the special Diaz bros? Get out of here with that shit Ali

It's not like Diaz doesn't do anything at all he just runs on a different schedule to Tyrant Dana

And don't you be sassing me boy just because you banged a tavern wench !!!!!

isn't this fight happening because George demanded it? So i think that disproves anyone kissing Nick's ass.
Nicks loss to condit was controversial no matter what your feeling is on it. Nick came in and whooped BJ and lost a super close fight to Condit. A lot of you are letting your homerism for other fighters (Hendricks) get in the way and start claiming like Nick is the most undeserving contender to ever get a title shot, meanwhile guys who have never fought in certain weightclasses are getting automatic title shots for talk, not fighting.
Obviously im a nick diaz fan, he puts on awesome fights every single time out. But to me it just seems like Dana is looking for any excuse to criticize him and make it seem like he's completely incompetent.

Well his record states he might be so Oggs... As always, love watch him fight but these outside the cage antics make him into a 7 year old who got his lunch money taken by the fat kid

what antics? Missing a press confrence? The dude isn't out there starting trouble, he's literally training his ass off. How many other fighters regularly compete in triathalons and xterra races while also being a top fighter in the world? You guys act like he's wondering around stockton starting street fights and giving a bad name to the sport. The dude is a world class athlete who sticks to a schedule and routine and despie popular beliefs is very fan friendly.

Dude, was he not pulled from a tittle fight? So all these accusations by Dana MUST be made up cuz nicks training his ass off and causing no fucking headaches for his boss... Got ya, gotta get em Diaz brothers tho