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Nick Diaz v. KJ Noons prefight

I made fun of Nick Diaz for his use of the “hippie lettuce”, but he’s a hell of a fun fighter to watch. His final PRIDE fight against Takanori Gomi could have been the Ward/Gatti of MMA. Diaz absorbed a hellacious beating, lost what appeared to be two pints of blood–at one point Gomi was pleading with the ref to stop it so he wouldn’t have to pound on the bloody mess of Diaz’s forehead any longer–before pulling out an ungodly submission victory with a gogoplata. KJ Noons enters the ring to a nondescript hip hop track. They’re showing Diaz’s bio now–my friend Glenn Rockwell, who’s now in Thailand, always said that Diaz looked like the kind of big dumb guy that you’d like to hate but he’s such a fun fighter to watch you can’t. Diaz had his victory against Gomi changed to a “no contest” after testing positive for marijuana. As I said at the time he should have received a bonus after fighting like a rabid weasel under the influence of the sticky green. Corpus Christi, Texas….no offense to anyone who lives there but EliteXC has outdone the UFC in promoting a live event in the deepest recesses of flyover country. Anyway, the classy one is introducing the fighters and round 1 will start soon….

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