Jenness on why Nick Diaz’s suspension is embarassing
Today President of the Underground Kirik Jenness joined the Deep Waters podcast to discuss, among other things, Nevada’s recent five year suspension of Nick Diaz.
Today President of the Underground Kirik Jenness joined the Deep Waters podcast to discuss, among other things, Nevada’s recent five year suspension of Nick Diaz:
“It was unjust. It’s not just justifiable any way you look at it. They have new guidelines for marijuana that are stricter than the ones they had before, and the third marijuana failure is three years. [For Nick Diaz] they made it five years pretty much arbitrarily because they didn’t like Nick Diaz’s attitude.”
Earlier this year, Nick Diaz was drug-tested three times in just a few hours on the night he fought Anderson Silva. Diaz passed two drug tests conducted by WADA-accredited labs. A third test was conducted by a less-reputable lab, with proper protocol not followed, and it produced a suddenly and extraordinarily high-level of marijuana metabolite result for Diaz.
Jenness believes that the commission had it out for Diaz on inappropriately personal grounds. “A regulator can’t let things get personal. If a fighter lets things get personal, it’s ok — they’re a fighter,” he continued.
“Regulators are supposed to be the grownups, and that’s unfortunately not what happened here.”