Nick Diaz accepts USADA punishment; eligible to fight again April 20

[MovinOn]

Former Strikeforce welterweight champ and UFC welterweight title challenger Nick Diaz will soon be able to fight again.

The elder Diaz brother has accepted a one-year sanction after failing to appear for three mandated United States Anti-Doping Agency drug tests, a violation of the agency’s “UFC Whereabouts Policy”. This suspension is retroactive to April 19, 2017, which means that it will be over on April 19, 2018. After that date, Diaz will be free to begin competing in the UFC again, should he so choose.

Per a Monday afternoon USADA release:

USADA announced today that Nick Diaz, of Stockton, Calif., has accepted a one-year sanction for a violation of the UFC® Anti-Doping Policy resulting from three unsuccessful test attempts during a 12-month period.

Like all UFC athletes, Diaz, 34, is a member of the UFC Registered Testing Pool and is therefore subject to certain Whereabouts responsibilities, which allow him to be located for out-of-competition testing. Diaz failed to be available for three tests at the locations provided in his Whereabouts Filings. The first two failures occurred in the second and third quarters of 2016, while the third occurred in the first quarter of 2017. Under the UFC Anti-Doping Policy, the accumulation of three Whereabouts Failures within a 12-month period constitutes an anti-doping policy violation.

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NICK IS FREED!!

 

[SCADA]

4-20 hey?

 

[Gay For Longo]

Date seems appropriate

 

[The Big Guy]

Date seems appropriate

I dont want nick fighting on 420 Maybe wait like 30 days

 

[Gay For Longo]

I dont want nick fighting on 420 Maybe wait like 30 days

Good call
Fight would be the 21st but that would not leave enough time to get all the metabolites out
Wonder if he'd go to Brazil for may 12th

 

[RaginCajun]

 

[Jdog93]

"Dont fight nick.. Keep smoking the sticky icky"

 

[KWingJitsu]

That was prime IDGAF Nick.

Nowadays he's MIA partying up the streets of Vegas.
He will never be the same. Stay retired.

 

[member 3289]

I dont want nick fighting on 420 Maybe wait like 30 days

He's not gonna fight unless it's GSP in a title fight for 50 million dollars

 

[Dirty Harry Potter]

That was prime IDGAF Nick.

Nowadays he's MIA partying up the streets of Vegas.
He will never be the same. Stay retired.

How about fighting BJ Penn ?
(speaking of "stay retired" )

 

[Wild]

Hell yes! MMA needs this guy right now.

 

[ShatsBassoon]

Reinstated and then suspended for testing positive on test provided on April 20th 2018

 

[Robbie Hart]

Isn’t this coming up on the 5 years everyone was bitching about 4 years ago?

“They’re stealing his career, how dare they?”

 

[PrideNeverDie]

I wouldn't get too excited , following Nate's big pay days you have to think big brother Nick is going to want the same .... You think UFC are gonna pay him what he is asking for ? Because the number he is thinking is liable to be a pretty big one

 

[Hwoarang]

He's not gonna fight unless it's GSP in a title fight for 50 million dollars

That's almost as disgraceful as that annoying guy his little brother beat up and choked out demanding that much.

 

[member 3289]

That's almost as disgraceful as that annoying guy his little brother beat up and choked out demanding that much.

Almost, except that guy holds the PPV buy record

 

[Ted Williams' head]

Want to see him back... but will he ever accept a fight?

 

[Silverball]

The UFC flew Nick out to Vegas months ago to sit down and figure out everything he needs to do to fight. There's a plan in place. If he had no intention of fighting, they wouldn't have bothered.