Nick Diaz
Despite having not competed in more than five years, [autotag]Nick Diaz[/autotag] continues to draw interest from the MMA community.
Diaz made a name in Strikeforce, winning and defending its welterweight title numerous times. He also captured the WEC’s welterweight title. He had various stints in the UFC, first in 2003 when in a notable win, he knocked out Robbie Lawler at UFC 47. After returning to the promotion in 2011 with a unanimous decision win over B.J. Penn, Diaz earned a shot at the interim welterweight title against Carlos Condit.
Diaz lost a unanimous decision, but despite the loss to Condit, Diaz’s next fight came against then-welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre.
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St-Pierre used his grappling to control all five rounds, and beat Diaz with a unanimous decision to retain his title. Almost two years later in 2015, Diaz returned to face former middleweight champ Anderson Silva in a rare non-title pay-per-view main event at UFC 183. He lost the fight by unanimous decision and has not fought since.
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