UFC welterweight Nick Diaz was enjoying himself at Vegas’s Hyde nightclub in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Hyde is a 10,000-square-foot indoor-outdoor nightclub in the Bellagio, with a badass view of the Bellagio fountains.
The fighter is known for not looking for trouble, but trouble unfortunately found him at about 2:30 a.m.
Shortly before the incident, Diaz was posting clips of the evening on SnapChat like a normal person:
Then, club reps tell TMZ Sports, Diaz went to use a restroom out side the club, and accidentally stumbled into another customer.
Now there are a lot of sound reasons to not get into fights. You can get arrested. You can knock someone to the ground, and in falling, they can suffer sometimes fatal injury. You can get sucker punched. They could be carrying a handgun.
To that list add, that could be Nick Diaz you are trying to act hard with.
The club rep says the man started talking smack after Diaz stumbled into him. Diaz apologized, and said he did not want any trouble.
However, if there is anything braver than one drunk, it is four drunks. Three other men joined the first one, and jumped Diaz.
“I didn’t start it,” said Diaz to TMZ. “They didn’t know who I was.”
Diaz defended himself, and in the process got a gash on his head.
The fight spilled out of the bathroom, and onto the Bellagio casino floor. The club’s rep describes an insane melee with the attackers swinging chairs and brawling with both casino and Hyde staffers. The four were eventually removed by security.
Diaz told Bellagio he was declining to press charges for the attack.
And he told TMZ why.
“They got the worst of it,” he explained.
This is of course only one side of the incident, but does have corroboration from multiple sources.
“We enjoyed having Nick at Hyde Bellagio last night and never had any problems with him in the club,” said Taylor Fisher, a spokesperson for Hyde Las Vegas, to MMA Fighting. “He was very well behaved.”
The cut on Diaz’s head may require stitches, but will not interfere with his return to training, he said.
