{"id":267237,"date":"2018-01-04T06:48:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=267237"},"modified":"2018-01-04T06:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T14:48:35","slug":"ufc-exec-believes-nick-diaz-might-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/nick-diaz\/ufc-exec-believes-nick-diaz-might-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC exec believes Nick Diaz might fight again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has now been almost three years since Nick Diaz&#8217;s last fight, a January 2015 no contest with middleweight legend Anderson Silva. That said, there is still widespread hope that he will one day return to the cage.<\/p>\n<p>While UFC President Dana White isn&#8217;t optimistic we&#8217;ll ever see the older Diaz brother back in the Octagon,\u00a0UFC VP of athlete health and performance Jeff Novitzky believes we might. He thinks the fighter just needs to work through the issues stemming from his failure to report his whereabouts, as required by USADA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNick was our first fighter that ran into the whereabouts issue,\u201d Novitzky explained on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-xxfT301Ii8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Rogan Experience<\/a> (h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/01\/nick-diaz-ufc-return-jeff-novitzy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>)\u00a0\u201cSo he got three whereabouts failures in a rolling 12 months, so he\u2019s currently going through that process. It\u2019s a tough one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he does [want to fight],&#8221; Novitzky continued. &#8220;I think he does. I\u2019ve sat down with him over the past couple months trying to resolve this whereabouts issues. The unfortunate thing there is, look, the whereabouts failures are there to catch people that are cheating and trying to avoid testing. I just think Nick\u2019s lifestyle led to those three whereabouts, not that he was trying to avoid testing. We\u2019re trying to work through that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As aforementioned, Novitzky&#8217;s optimism is not shared by UFC President Dana White, who has long questioned the Diaz brothers&#8217; desire to fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI highly doubt it,\u201d White told <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/06\/dana-white-i-dont-think-nick-diaz-will-ever-fight-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a>\u00a0mid-way through 2017. \u201cI don\u2019t know. I honestly don\u2019t think that, and I can\u2019t speak for him, you\u2019d have to speak with Nick himself, but if you ask me \u2013 people ask me, \u2018Do you think <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/ronda-rousey\/\">Ronda (Rousey)<\/a> is coming back?\u2019 No. I think Ronda\u2019s going to retire. Ronda hasn\u2019t retired, but my opinion is, I think she will. I don\u2019t think Nick Diaz will ever fight again. I just don\u2019t think he has the desire anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Nick Diaz will ever fight again?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 1\/4\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has now been almost three years since Nick Diaz&#8217;s last fight, a January 2015 no contest with middleweight legend Anderson Silva. That said, there is still widespread hope that he will one day return to the cage. 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