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Nick Diaz gives a homeless guy a stack of money

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#1 ·
While everyone online and Dana are making a big deal over some unanswered phone calls and texts, Nick is out on the streets giving homeless men his hard earned money.



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#12 ·
Diaz could give my uncle his kidney and I would probably root against him.

Giving a homeless guy some money doesn't make up for years of embarrassing the sport with unprofessional behavior.
 
#14 ·
Diaz could give my uncle his kidney and I would probably root against him.
:laugh: atleast she's honest!

Giving a homeless guy some money doesn't make up for years of embarrassing the sport with unprofessional behavior.
You are right, post fight brawls are something that should be heavily looked down upon, but for the most part he's kept his nose clean* the last couple of years and he's always given us wars and been friendly to the fans. Like him or dislike him, MMA is better with him around.


*You and I probably have a different definition of a clean nose.
 
#21 ·
Lol at people that get so worked up and have general hate for a fighter that they never met or know personally.

Hate is strong. I try not to hate anyone in my everyday life, but it happens. But definatly not people I never even met.

Cheer up mate, nothing is as bad as it seems and probably not as good as it seems either. Good luck to you.
 
#45 ·
I have heard this argument so many times both from people from this forum and from friends in real life, many of them Diaz fans. Yet at the same time everyone that watches MMA roots for and against certain fighters. So that kind of argument isn't valid. I know for a fact that you do not like Chael Sonnen. I take no issue with that at all. But have you ever met Chael personally? I doubt it (if you have then I'll accept the crow you're going to put in my mouth). Then why do you dislike him? Because you, like me, develop an opinion based on what we're exposed to. That's what human beings who follow a spectator sport do. Troy Polamalu is one of my least favorite NFL football players. He's dirty as hell. Apparently though he's one of the nicest guys outside of the gridiron. But I don't like the way he plays football. For those of you who are hockey fans, Sean Avery is also another example. Super nice guy outside the ice. I've met him personally, he's really cool. But I hate the way he plays hockey. He's dirty and disrespectful and I don't like that kind of game.

It's the same thing with Nick Diaz. The guy flips off his opponents at weigh-ins, during contests, and starts post fight brawls and regularly disregards the rules of the sport by failing drug tests (the opinion on marijuana being irrelevant, it's still against the rules as dictated by the NSAC). That's not what mixed martial arts is about. It's about respect, honor, skill, and intelligence. To me, Diaz exempifies the antithesis of what MMA represents and THAT is why I root against him. He could be the nicest guy in the world and I still wouldn't give a damn.

I'm not trying to flame you or anything because at the end of the day I really can see where you're coming from, but this whole "you haven't met him" argument that Diaz fans use is really a poor one.
This is a sport where grown men punch eachother in the face and try and break each other's bones, not hug and caress one another. And I'm not trying to be a jerk but as a woman you probably don't understand that there is a testosterone factor to this sport. It's fun to see guys like Nick Diaz go toe to toe and basically tell his boss to screw off. It's entertainment. Diaz just doesn't give a damn and that's why people like him.

Can you imagine how boring the sport would be if every fighter was the same? I can appreciate guys like Rich Franklin and Junior dos Santos who are upstanding guys that shake hands and touch gloves, but I can also appreciate guy like Rampage and Diaz who are true fighters at heart because it adds diversity to this awesome sport. Personalities create entertainment and rivalries which breed fan interest.

No offense of course. I can definitely appreciate the way you view the sport but I'm just trying to get you to see that if MMA didn't have diversity or guys like Diaz, it wouldn't be where it is today.
 
#47 ·
This is a sport where grown men punch eachother in the face and try and break each other's bones, not hug and caress one another. And I'm not trying to be a jerk but as a woman you probably don't understand that there is a testosterone factor to this sport. It's fun to see guys like Nick Diaz go toe to toe and basically tell his boss to screw off. It's entertainment. Diaz just doesn't give a damn and that's why people like him.
A "testosterone" factor? I watch this sport for the same reasons you do. I like seeing guys and girls punch eachother in the face and I also like watching different disciplines come together in one fluid motion. Just because I have chesticles rather than testicles doesn't mean I don't enjoy the more rugged parts of the sport, so to speak.

As for the latter part of this paragraph I'll have to disagree. You may find that sort of crap entertaining, but I don't. This isn't WWF where we have Steve Austin telling Vince McMahon to screw off, this is the UFC, an organization of professionals.

Can you imagine how boring the sport would be if every fighter was the same? I can appreciate guys like Rich Franklin and Junior dos Santos who are upstanding guys that shake hands and touch gloves, but I can also appreciate guy like Rampage and Diaz who are true fighters at heart because it adds diversity to this awesome sport. Personalities create entertainment and rivalries which breed fan interest.
This is just a matter of personal taste then. I don't mind Rampage all that much (his recent behavior and his joyride aside) but Diaz is someone that regularly puts the sport in a bad light. I can appreciate what he brings to the cage because he has a unique style, but I don't appreciate his personality because it adds nothing positive to the sport.
 
#20 ·
I'm the kind of guy that would meet Dana and buy him a drink, forgetting that he's the dude that tips people 100k. One night I was at a dude I don't really know's birthday party. It was in the local pub, which he owns, and I was ADAMENT on buying him a drink. It was HIS mah****ing pub...did I think he was paying?
 
#41 ·
If Diaz was your mother you would still hate him.
Are there only black or white? 0% or 100%?
Or actually someone could think Diaz is just OK, ore merely dislike him. I merely dislike him.
Sure Diaz is not all bad. He is a good talented fighter, but he produces more reasons to be disliked than people you are calling haters give to you to label them like that.
Diaz doesn't need to cure Cancer or AIDS, but if he would stop cursing his co workers and showing middle fingers to them and going to press conferences that would awesome. Guy wanna have an unique attitude, so he must bear the unique response for that.
You calling people Diaz haters is the same as yourself being called his nutt hugger. Think about that.
 
#33 ·
@AmericanFighter.

It's really not that hard to see that he was walking with MiddleEasyTV and doing some sort of interview/daily events thing and came across this guy. Everyone should just remove the hate glasses and take this thread for what it is.
 
#49 ·
Diaz fans crack me up - Nick gives a homeless guy a dollar and they all crow from the mountain top how he gave him a stack. What "stack"? lol
 
#55 ·
Disagree.
If they ever fought again I'm almost certain Condit would win more clearly than last time. And I doubt Diaz gets past the likes of GSP, Hendricks, Ellenberger, Fitch, Maia, Stun Gun, Pierce, Rory, and Koscheck. The only decent welterweight fighters I can see Diaz beating are Alves and Kampmann.
 
#63 ·
Nick could learn a lot from Nate. Nate keeps his mouth shut and Dana feeds him guys he can beat.
I don't see the logic here, man. Lots of low profile fighters getting all sorts of opponents. Why you think that?

If the UFC gave Nick the Nate treatment you'd all be sucking his dick.
If this is what it takes to be Nick fan, I will proudly accept the haters hat some people are trying to present me with. :D
 
#62 ·
Because he hasn't fought any of them recently, he has fought wrestlers before but he lost to them, it's the same thing with Nate, they try and fight off their back but fighting off your back won't win you fights in MMA unless you can finish.
 
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