Den 32-årige welterviktaren Nick Diaz fick häromdagen beskedet om att han blir avstängd i hela 5 år, som straff för att han testat positivt för marijuanametaboliter innan UFC 183 i januari. Beslutet om det hårda straffet grundade man i att Diaz vid tidigare tillfällen har åkt fast för detta, under 2007 och 2012.
Diaz är mycket känslosam efter beslutet och har nu öppnat upp sig och berättat om sin barndom. Han berättar då bland annat att han gick på mediciner vid ung ålder och hur lärare och klasskamrater mobbade honom på grund av det. Han gick därför aldrig ut det åttonde skolåret:
That’s fucked up. You don’t know what that does to someone. I wanted to beat up everyone in class, even the girls who would say some thing like, ’What’s wrong? You didn’t take your medication?
Han berättade sedan om sin flickvän som tog livet av sig:
Before I ever had my first pro fight, July 5, 2000, Bart had a party at his house. The night before, Stephanie had told me she loved me. An hour later I got a call from her mom saying, ’Are you with Stephanie?’ She came straight to my house to get me, took me up and down the Frontage Road on Highway 99 by my Grandma’s house next to their trailer park.”
There was a wreck on the freeway. I jumped the fence and saw only one car and ambulances.
She had walked and killed herself on the freeway. The girl I loved more than anything had tried to kill herself for the third time and succeeded.
After that, I was grown up. It was all over. I wasn’t a kid anymore. I won my first fight in the first round with a choke and all I could think about was her, just like when I was in school. I would run seven miles and back to her grave just to promise her I would make it as a fighter like she knew and had told me she knew and was proud of me.
Diaz har aldrig haft ett vanligt jobb efter den här händelsen och har enbart ägnat sig åt kampsport och MMA, vilket NSAC nu har tagit ifrån honom.
They suspended me for a third time. For five fucking years for something that makes the whole world a better place. But in the end, I’m just upset I can’t be there for my brother right now since he’s gonna be fighting soon. It’s my bad he even got into this sport and he gets his face kicked in and they don’t even pay him.
I got us in this, and if I don’t make any money, I don’t have any way to get us out.
