Diaz: Chickens GSP and Bisping ducked me

TMZ Sports caught up with Nick Diaz after UFC 209 and asked him about the recently announced fight between middleweight champion Michael Bisping and the 170 G.O.A.T. Georges St-Pierre.

“You want to know the truth?” asked the elder Diaz. “I talked to Michael Bisping already, in New York, about doing this fight. There’s more money for him, if he takes the fight with me.

“We were talking about a catchweight fight. He’s [saying] something like, ‘It’s going to be hard to make the weight.’ I’m like, ‘come on.’

“It would be a non-title fight, so after I whip his ass, he still keeps his belt. So that’s more money – then you go fight GSP.

“Same with Georges. I’m just doing more numbers than he is. So you’re going to make more money to fight me. It makes sense, because they haven’t fought before. “

Bisping and GSP are expected to fight sometime over the summer, but the event, date, and place have not been named as yet.

Diaz’s return remains up in the air.

He fought Anderson Silva at UFC 183 on January 31, 2015. Silva failed a test for the performance-enhancing drugs drostanolone and androsterone and was suspended for a year. At the same event, Nick passed highly-reliable tests for the demon weed marijuana. However, due to a failed result for a less reliable test, the Nevada Athletic Commission (NAC) suspended Diaz for five years and fined him $165,000.

UFC drug czar Jeff Novitzky explained respectfully that the NAC got it wrong.

Diaz fought back legally, and the commission quietly changed the five years to 18 months, retroactively to the date of the offense” and reduced the fine to $100,000. Diaz paid off $25,000 of it, but an unjust, offensive $75,000 remained, so the NAC banned Nick from being in Nate’s corner vs. McGregor. In December it was announced that Diaz has worked out a repayment plan for the remainder of the unjust fine, and was cleared to fight.