It was weirdly comforting on Wednesday to hear Nate Diaz say he slept through his open workout.
The younger Diaz has been gone for a minute—out some 13 months squabbling with ownership over his pay—and when he returns on Saturday to fight Rafael dos Anjos in the co-main event of UFC on Fox 13, it will be to a fight company that has made some tectonic shifts in his absence.With third-party sponsors being cut out, high-profile brand partnerships in the works and a greenhorn professional wrestler now touted as the UFC’s next big drawing card, it felt good to be reminded that some things stubbornly refuse to change.
“I didn’t realize it was time to be there,” Diaz told MMAJunkie.com’s Steven Marrocco and Matt Erickson, after he no showed the media event. “I woke up and they were calling me, and they said, ‘You kinda missed open workouts.’ I kind of slept in. I wish I could’ve made it, but I didn’t make it in time.”
If any other veteran of 19 fights and more than seven years in the UFC said the same, you could be mad at him. We’ve known for a long time, however, that Nick and Nate Diaz don’t occupy the same reality as the rest of us.
Source http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2296751-ufc-on-fox-13-preview-as-ufc-universe-changes-will-planet-diaz-stay-in-orbit
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