{"id":335889,"date":"2019-12-19T06:24:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T14:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=335889"},"modified":"2019-12-19T06:24:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T14:24:43","slug":"nick-diaz-advertises-vip-tickets-to-my-ufc-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/nick-diaz-advertises-vip-tickets-to-my-ufc-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Diaz advertises ‘VIP tickets to my UFC return’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Diaz recently took to Instagram<\/a> to advertise an opportunity for fans to win VIP tickets to his UFC return.<\/p>\n

The problem, of course, is that he doesn’t currently have a UFC return scheduled.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B54KatRlpua\/<\/p>\n

“WANT TO WIN VIP TICKETS TO MY UFC RETURN?” Diaz wrote the caption for his post before outlining the instructions for this contest.<\/p>\n

Diaz, who is the former Strikeforce welterweight champion, has not fought since a January, 2015 no-contest with Anderson Silva. While he’s teased a comeback several times since then, he’s never made it back into the cage, which makes this Instagram post quite bizarre.<\/p>\n

Diaz has recently been linked to a fight with top welterweight Jorge Masvidal, who defeated his brother Nate in November, but as of yet, this potential matchup seems to be little more than talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I see is f*cking dollar signs right now,\u201d Diaz said in an interview with Ariel Helwani recently (via MMA News<\/a>). \u201cIt\u2019s not on me. You wanna talk about baptizing my younger brother, that\u2019s on you. I never had nothing disrespectful to say, but you don\u2019t talk about baptizing my younger brother. So you\u2019re already in a f*cked up position if you fight with me. You don\u2019t f*cking talk about baptizing someone\u2019s younger brother. That\u2019s my baby brother, you don\u2019t talk like that to nobody. So who rides on who\u2019s side?<\/p>\n

\u201cYou wanna say that? You wanna do that? You wanna walk? That\u2019s on you,\u201d Diaz added. \u201cI can relate to you, that\u2019s why I ain\u2019t mad at you. But if you wanna walk, that\u2019s on you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Masvidal later responded to these comments from Diaz, welcoming a fight with Stockton, California based MMA legend.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he\u2019s got that fire lit under him, I know we\u2019re going to have a fight,\u201d Masvidal told Schaub on a recent episode of\u00a0Food Truck Diaries<\/em>\u00a0(transcript via\u00a0MMA Junkie<\/a>).\u00a0\u201cI know Nick\u2019s a dog. He\u2019s going to take whatever I can give, and I\u2019m going to give him everything that I got to hit the off button, to turn him off, as well, so I\u2019m excited for the fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know he wants to hurt me. He has to avenge his little brother, so it\u2019s a fight that pumps me up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite this back-and-forth between Nick Diaz and Jorge Masvidal, a fight between them is still far from official, which begs the question: Why is Diaz advertising tickets for his UFC return? Does he know something we don’t?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 12\/19\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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