Video streaming by Ustream UFC Primetime Producers Might Have Witnessed Nick Diaz Smoking Pot The head producer for the UFC Primetime series spoke to Ariel Helwani just prior to UFC 143. A comment that was not viewed as anything at the time, has now been brought in the spotlight:
“I think that he’s a guy that got into it before this whole thing blew up. He was 16 and dropped out [of school] and that was 12 years ago. The UFC wasn’t what the UFC is now; MMA wasn’t what MMA is now. He didn’t get into this thing at all for the attention, he didn’t bargain for this side of it. There is certainly the argument that you have to take the good with the bad and you have to show up to press conferences and all that but I think Nick maybe more than any guy that I’ve covered is truly just a fighter. That’s what he does, that’s what he lives. He does nothing else, besides a little bit of herbal extra-curricular activity, he does nothing else but train, nothing. If you go into his house it’s a bunch of fighters that live there. It’s a nice house… There’s Jiu Jitsu mats where the dining room is… There’s like a chandelier hanging over these Jiu Jitsu mats in what should be a dining room but he has no use for that, so there are mats in the room there’s mats all over the place, there’s workout equipment everywhere you look and that’s all he does and that’s not fake.”
The above comments around the 27:00 mark of this video
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