Nick Diaz: "I've Been Trapped In This Prison"
08/09/11 - Exclusive - NICK DIAZ UNCUT
An exclusive look inside the mind of the AWOL Stockton bad boy who has shattered his own dreams of conquering the MMA world
The latest issue of Fighters Only magazine hit the newsstands in Europe this morning featuring an exclusive interview with Nick Diaz, before he went AWOL and forced the UFC to scrap his title fight with Georges St Pierre.
While the world’s Press where left wanting at press conferences both in Canada and the US this week, Fighters Only went toe-to-toe with the Stockton bad boy at his training camp in San Francisco and found a man on the brink.
Gareth A Davies spent the day at Diaz’s Skrap Pack camp and unearthed a fascinating insight into the mind of an individual clearly at war with his own demons. Diaz’s antics across the Atlantic yesterday – which have ultimately led to him being deposed as GSP’s next challenger and cost him the opportunity of a lifetime – jump off the pages from this exclusive 3,000-word interview.
Diaz says to Fighters Only magazine, which goes on sale in the US in a fortnight: “If you look at my life over a long term period I couldn’t give a s**t. I honestly don’t know, if I got locked up right now, I don’t know if I’d want to come back. I’m coming in here every day, going, ‘Why the f**k am I doing this right now?’ I could be, like, f**k this whole thing.”
He also states: “Anything is better than what I have been going through. Maybe it’d be better to be locked up in prison. I’ve been trapped in this prison, and after every fight there is another… See, you don’t understand. When you get outta jail, that’s what it is… If I fight the fight, I win. I get out, I get off a little while and then get locked back up…”
And in his final statement in the magazine interview he perhaps gave us the clearest indication yet that his mind was not right to face GSP, stating: “Am I looking forward to the fight? No. If I fight, I lose, no matter what, win or lose. If I fight. Period. I don’t look forward to anything like that. I look past that, like, ‘Holy s**t… if I win this s**t I’m f**king stuck in this game.”
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Dit interview is van voor het hele gedoe afgelopen week... Komt er dus op neer dat Nick Diaz serieus issues heeft. Is er een dokter in de zaal?
