Frank Shamrock: Nick Diaz is a knucklehead
http://mmamania.com/2009/08/11/frank-sh ... ucklehead/
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“Sadly, it’s a big problem because somebody’s out a lot of money — Strikeforce/Showtime — and you know, that wasn’t fair from a professional standpoint. But you know, I’m not matching the fights, and unfortunately, Diaz has a strong name right now, and he has a lot of value to somebody. I mean, UFC has expressed value. We all like Nick, he’s just a knucklehead. And hopefully, he’ll come into his own because he’s coming into his own as a fighter, but his maturity, I think, is 10 years behind that. So I can imagine that being a knucklehead involves: training all day, hanging out with your friends at night, and in Nick Diaz’s situation, doing whatever he does, and then train all the time, and think about nothing but fighting. It makes for great fighters, but I think it kind of makes you a little irresponsible sometime.”
Strikeforce pillar and former middleweight champion Frank Shamrock sounds off on the decisions Nick Diaz made that cost him a welterweight title fight against Jay Hieron at the ‘Carano vs. Cyborg’ event on August 15. Diaz missed a scheduled pre-fight drug test on August 7 and then his make-up exam on August 10. Former UFC experiment Jesse Taylor has agreed to fight Hieron on short notice while Diaz is relegated to the sidelines until he manages to sort out his personal issues.