Well, well, well. It seems like the drama surrounding Nick Diaz and his promo-shooting abilities will never end. We all remember the build up to UFC 137, the back door escapes, the conferences missed and opportunities lost. Tears were shed, my trip to Vegas was thrown upside-down and 340 pounds of emotional baggage was placed upon my shoulders for having to witness BJ Penn and Nick Diaz beat the hell out of each other for fifteen minutes. It's cool though, all is forgiven. Time heals all wounds, even gaping ones, but my God if Nick somehow gets torn out of this main event again I'm going to visit LayzieTheSavage and shoot a double on him so hard nugs will come out of his ears. Not like Layzie has anything to do with it, but he's always the first person to be blamed. It's just the way it works, I guess.

MMAFighting reported on Dana White's recent comments of Nick Diaz no-showing multiple filming sessions for the UFC 158 countdown shows, but the 209 has responded with the contrary.

Here's what Dana said:

"Nick Diaz would be an interesting Countdown show if we could get him to show up for those,"

"Imagine how good his Countdown show would be. F--king think his video blog would be great? How about if he had a professionally shot, by professionals, the best in the business, the best at cutting and producing features on athletes, imagine how f--king good that would be. First we've got to get him to show up for the f--king interviews, and then we can do it. He missed, how many did he miss? Four? Three. He's missed three."

"We've got a crew in Stockton for two weeks," White explained. "When we don't do an interview, you know much that costs us? A s--tload on money. Okay? So we've got a f--king crew rolling around Stockton not doing a f--king thing. It costs us a lot of money and we can't properly sell the fight or Nick Diaz."

"I knew something was going to go bad somewhere,"  "It's just, that's Nick."

But wait! Diaz tweeted out this response, with a more... How should we say, thorough response from his lawyer, Jonathan Tweedale, via MMAFighting:

"Dana is mistaken," "There is no 'crew rolling around Stockton,' and Nick did not 'miss' three interviews.



"In fact, several earlier dates were arranged without Nick's knowledge and with no notice to Nick. When Nick learned what had happened, I assisted him in arranging a date and time directly (Thursday, February 14). Nick arrived early and was in good spirits at that February 14 date -- the one and only date he knew about in advance. Nick requires things to be done in an organized and orderly manner. That is the kind of professional he is."

Cue the .GIF that sums up everything.

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-6 # CAINtheBULL 2013-02-18 14:58

Nick seems to do it on purpose to generate press.

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-1 # Asshole 2013-02-18 21:06

oh oh oh nickyboy you cant afford to buy a house but you can afford to buy an iphone? you fucking hypocrite

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-1 # HempForceProtein 2013-02-19 13:30

Haha you're such a douche, since when iphone is more expensive than a house? your comment might be the dumbest thing ever

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+13 # Joe Crogan 2013-02-18 15:05

I love Diaz

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+3 # Elvis pretzel 2013-02-18 15:32

Another example of Dana spinning shit in the media.

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+9 # Dudewtfisthat? 2013-02-18 15:59

LOL Nope. This kind of stuff rarely happens to any other athlete, yet this is perpetual with Nick. If you think that Nick is really never informed of this shit, you are retarded.

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+13 # BigggGer J 2013-02-18 15:57

Nick Diaz don't need no promo countdown show. Just edit together 3 30 minutes of his highlights from YouTube and show it on tv.

Less hassle and Everyone will prefer and enjoy that more anyways

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+16 # LayzieTheSavage 2013-02-18 16:02

If they'd just hire me to film this shit, we wouldn't have this problem.

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+3 # FILM NERD 2013-02-18 16:20

how comfortable are you with the RED camera system? filmic lighting techniques+the technical know how to use any of it? ...Yeah they should probably use you instead of arguably the greatest sports videography team in the world...

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+2 # LayzieTheSavage 2013-02-18 18:15

I should rephrase. They should just hire me to make over look, and supply enough weed.

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0 # FILM NERD 2013-02-21 00:33

amen to that brother.

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+3 # Give him the job 2013-02-19 04:59

Quoting FILM NERD:

how comfortable are you with the RED camera system? filmic lighting techniques+the technical know how to use any of it? ...Yeah they should probably use you instead of arguably the greatest sports videography team in the world...

Except all that equipment and technical knowledge being used by said top shelf videography team amounts to jack shit if Diaz wants nothing to do with them.

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-3 # Cats Panties 2013-02-18 16:42

We don't need 43 of 44 minutes of you asking nick to show you that nunchuck thing again while we hear you mouth breathing in the background

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+3 # Sambro 2013-02-18 17:15

LOL! Nothing professional has ever come out of the 209.

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+6 # Sambro 2013-02-18 17:14

Layzie, "Nick, What do you think about these retard fighters who don't know how to buy a house, answer phones, and no-show at press conferences?"

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+4 # Rawdog 2013-02-18 20:45

Why is his phone always dead or almost dead? Look at his tweet. Someone get this man a portable charger

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+2 # Gansu 2013-02-18 21:22

Cos he left bluetooth and the GPS on.

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+2 # gspdiaz209 2013-02-18 21:32

Quoting Gansu:

Cos he left bluetooth and the GPS on.

He will shutdown GSP, saves more battery. We all should, saves us more battery.

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+2 # Capt. Reason 2013-02-19 00:01

Why do we need a promo? Press conferences? It's Diaz v GSP. What, are we going to forget?

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-2 # ruhownerized 2013-02-19 04:35

Can't blame him if he skipped, I mean I sure wouldn't want to spend days talking about how I'm going to get the fuck beaten out of me a few weeks later

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+2 # wrestle_fuck 2013-02-19 08:07

Best in the business? All these fuckin production crews capture is the fighter walking to his car and entering the gym in slow motion.

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