{"id":193199,"date":"2016-05-03T01:24:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T08:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=193199"},"modified":"2016-05-03T01:24:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T08:24:12","slug":"video-nick-diaz-talks-dream-coming-true-training-childhood-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-nick-diaz-talks-dream-coming-true-training-childhood-idol\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO | Nick Diaz talks about dream coming true training with childhood idol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UFC&#039;s Nick Diaz Talks Training with Van Damme | TMZ Sports\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eJ_AG3vITyA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>UFC veteran <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nate-diaz\/photo-nate-diaz-looking-swole-after-training\/\">Nick Diaz<\/a> has been into martial arts for a long time. The elder Diaz brother admits that he was a <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nick-diaz\/nick-diaz-van-damme-wannabe\/\">Jean-Claude Van Damme wannabe<\/a> as a youngster.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, The Diaz brothers were seen <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nate-diaz\/photo-nate-diaz-continues-to-train-ninja-shit-with-jcvd\/\">training and hanging out<\/a> with the Hollywood martial arts star. Nick spoke with TMZ on getting to train with one of his childhood idols. Check out what he has to say in the video above.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Diaz is expected to fight again in August after being suspended from the NAC for <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/breaking-nick-diaz-eligible-to-fight-august-1st\/\">another positive test for marijuana<\/a> back in his fight against Anderson Silva, who also happened to test <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/anderson-silva-on-testing-positive-i-really-made-a-mistake-by-taking-a-substance-that-was-tainted\/\">positive for Drostanolone metabolites<\/a> in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC veteran Nick Diaz has been into martial arts for a long time. The elder Diaz brother admits that he was a Jean-Claude Van Damme wannabe as a youngster. Recently, The Diaz brothers were seen training and hanging out with the Hollywood martial arts star. Nick spoke with TMZ on getting to train with one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54422,"featured_media":186519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10085,2682],"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>VIDEO | Nick Diaz talks about dream coming true training with childhood idol | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-nick-diaz-talks-dream-coming-true-training-childhood-idol\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VIDEO | Nick Diaz talks about dream coming true training with childhood idol | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UFC veteran Nick Diaz has been into martial arts for a long time. 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