Nick Diaz Booted From UFC 137

In what looks to be a historic move, the UFC has actually canceled the superfight of Nick Diaz vs St Pierre UFC 137 due to Diaz not making certain press conferences.

The strange round of events have been unfolding today.  There was a rumor that Diaz was in a plane crash.  Later Diaz’s business manager made a post via twitter

Twitter @JasonManly

@EllenbergerMMA @kcbanditmma his plane crashed bro have some respect! He’s safe and back training though…

This wasn’t true and later confirmed that it was meant to be a joke towards Jake Ellenberger and KCbantimma

At the UFC 137 press conference, Dana announced that St. Pierre would be facing Carlos Condit and that Diaz may be released.  Dana White also questioned if Diaz would even show up to fight at UFC 137.

I would have to assume that, yes, we’re probably going to let him go, but we’ll see what happens.

St. Pierre was stunned by the news and thought that this was possibly an elaborate prank.

Later today, Diaz fired back by posting a video on Youtube claiming that UFC was trying to block Diaz’s ambitions to move into boxing which is why he was offered the Pierre fight in the first place.

UFC other big moves have been the recently signed Alistair Overeem and Cris “Cyborg” Santos resigned with Strikeforce late August.

Update Sept 8th:
Now its confirmed Diaz will fight BJ Penn at UFC 137 and Penn’s original opponent Carlos Condit, will still be fighting Pierre. 

Sources:  Dana White Interview, Diaz Video Response

Credit:  GGB