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Nick Diaz

Profession : Athlete

Birth : August 2, 1983

As far as MMA, I want to say there's maybe five guys that do jiu-jitsu that have an actual level of understanding when it comes to boxing.

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I'm not hard to find. I'm on Snapchat and Instagram every day.

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I enjoy fighting here in Japan under the regular Dream/Pride rules with the ring and the whole rules criteria.

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I have a cage at home, I have a cage at all the gyms I train.

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I think for hundreds of years or for a much longer time, people have been fighting, professional athletes have been fighting in a ring. So it's just the way it should be. There's no sense in making it a cage.

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This is my life. It's everything I do, train eight-hour days every day.

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My first experience of doing martial arts was weird, real traditional, strange smell with incense burning. We did a lot of bowing, it was a lot of path of least resistance and go with the flow... Really good stuff for when you're at a young age.

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A lot of guys have to worry about what their wives and kids think, I don't.

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I just come to fight. Whatever happens out there happens.

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I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with.

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I don't care about the Strikeforce belt.

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I do get paid well as an MMA fighter, but this isn't boxing and I feel like we should get paid like this is boxing.

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I will tell you right now, I want to fight the No. 1 fighter in the world. I always said that I want to fight the No. 1 fighter.

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I've never backed out of a fight in my life. That's not what I do.

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I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter. I think he's a nice guy just like everybody else, and he's a great role model. I would love to be that too if I was in that position.

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I had my mom drive me to practice everywhere. I'm really grateful I had her.

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I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre.

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I felt like my job is to go out there and put on a good show, amazing fights and give an amazing effort and hope that people can recognize that sort of thing, and maybe they would want to find out more.

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I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.

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I love jiu-jitsu, and I love my team.

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