{"id":127601,"date":"2015-01-28T12:05:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T20:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=127601"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:53:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:53:03","slug":"nick-diaz-promise-best-209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/nick-diaz-promise-best-209\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Diaz: &#8216;I Promise to do my best for the 209&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nick-Diaz2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127602\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nick-Diaz2.png\" alt=\"Nick Diaz2\" width=\"484\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nick-Diaz2.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nick-Diaz2-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nick-Diaz2-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nick-Diaz2-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019d rather not be portrayed as an evil villain. But if people want to make me out to be that, and it sells tickets, that\u2019s fine. But I do hope people understand that this is just what sells, and not what\u2019s really me. I\u2019m just a mixed-martial artist from Stockton, California. And I\u2019m still here.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cStockton is where I\u2019m from, and there\u2019s no shame in it. But there\u2019s not a lot of people pulling for Stockton except for people who are from here.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI didn\u2019t have much good in my life. I really didn\u2019t have anything. The minute I had something that I could hold on to, that I could invest in, that I could excel in, it became my life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI felt like I was meant to do this, but nobody had any faith in me. My family, best friends were telling me: \u2018If you think you\u2019re going to make a living fighting, then you\u2019re going to have a wake-up call coming soon.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI know I had a bad mouth on me. I would say crazy stuff like that because I didn\u2019t know any better I started fighting when I was 17 years old. I didn\u2019t have some sort of spoon-fed team teaching me how to do this. I was just a kid and didn\u2019t have somebody to show me how to dress, how to act, to be polite. I was just rough and figured it out for myself. But then you get older and better understand how the world works.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t fight because I\u2019m fanatical about fighting. I\u2019m not out there to win a belt. I\u2019m not out there to be the baddest dude in the world, although it started off that way. But you don\u2019t make it this far if you have a whole lot of quit in you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou know, I\u2019ve never been the first person to step out of line, start playing games or misunderstand something. Right now, my opponent is not playing games with me, and I\u2019m not playing games with him. But until they say, \u2018Go,\u2019 in the cage, you never know where it will go from there.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou come to me to fight a real fight.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019re built a lot alike, but he has the size and reach. He has more of an advantage with kickboxing. I have more of an advantage with boxing. We\u2019re both black belts in Jiu-Jitsu. So I\u2019m not in the dark about what I\u2019m getting myself into and what\u2019s at stake. I know I can have a really good night, and that I might have a really bad night.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou go after anybody\u2019s leg if it\u2019s there. I\u2019ve heard people say stuff like he has a weak leg. But I\u2019m not taking too much of that into consideration. I just promise to do my best for myself, my family, my team and my city.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The prolific Nick Diaz revealed a lot about himself in this new interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufc.ca\/news\/ufc-183-nick-diaz-knows-you-cant-turn-away\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFC.COM<\/a>&#8216;s Mark Emmons.<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019d rather not be portrayed as an evil villain. But if people want to make me out to be that, and it sells tickets, that\u2019s fine. But I do hope people understand that this is just what sells, and not what\u2019s really me. I\u2019m just a mixed-martial artist from Stockton, California. And I\u2019m still here.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":127602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nick Diaz: &#039;I Promise to do my best for the 209&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nick Diaz seems like a changed man in this new interview with the UFC. 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