According to Nick Diaz his legal team’s battle against the frankly ludicrous five year suspension he was handed by the Nevada State Athletic Commission in September for a failed marijuana drug test is going well.
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Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight contender and fan-favorite Nick Diaz could return from his suspension much earlier than expected, according to a report by MMAFighting.com’s Marc Raimondi.
Since his now No-Contest bout with Anderson Silva, Diaz has seen a few seriously hard luck, perhaps now his fortunes are starting to change.
The MMA community was outraged at the NSAC’s harsh punishment of banning Diaz for five-years because he will be 36 when the ban will end, which means that it would have essentially ended his MMA career. However, there were inconsistencies in the way the UFC 183 drug testing took place.
Diaz previously lashed out regarding his lengthy suspension by comparing his infractions to those of other UFC fighters.
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Many fighters have rallied behind Diaz, whose reputation as one of the “bad boys” of MMA probably didn’t help his case in front of the NSAC in September. I’ve never been on steroids and I didn’t break the rules now. The two WADA-accredited tests showed Diaz below the legal limit for marijuana metabolites, while the middle test, by a non-WADA-certified lab, put Diaz at almost five times the legal limit of 150 ng/mL.
