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Nick Diaz Reveals He's Never Paid Taxes; Dana White is Worried About Him | MMAWeekly.com

Nick Diaz caused a stir during the UFC 158 post-fight press conference following his unanimous decision loss to welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre in Montreal, revealing that he’s never paid taxes in his life.

“I just have to invest a little more money (in training),” Diaz said when asked what he would do if he does stay in the UFC instead of retiring as he hinted at. “Now that I have a little bit more money. I’ve never paid taxes in my life and I’ll probably go to jail.

“No one wants to hear about that, no one wants to hear about that kinda talk or what’s really going on with me. I might as well just be a kid.”

UFC president Dana White told the media following the press conference that he’s concerned about Diaz and his taxes, and that he’d rather have ninjas after him than the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

“At the end of the day, Nick has been in the sport forever, he wanted a shot at the title and he got a shot at the title and he got paid a lot of money for it,” White said. “What’s sad is, he’s gotta go pay his taxes, that’s going to be (expletive); that will be sad.

“If someone doesn’t take care of that kid and get him set straight, then you know. He came out here publicly tonight and said he’s never paid taxes in his life. Holy (expletive)! I mean, that’s bad. Somebody better handle that with his check and make sure that kid doesn’t end up with nothing.”

[TheKidInside]

LOL at people buying this...Nick is fine.

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Ans a little more Diaz drama from last night...


Braulio Estima gives his side of Nick Diaz camp shoving incident
Braulio Estima gives his side of Nick Diaz camp shoving incident - Mixed Martial Arts News

BJJ great Braulio Estima was in George St-Pierre's corner Saturday night vs. Nick Diaz, and complained about treatment by Diaz and his corner after the fight.

Via Facebook.

Braulio Estima
near Montreal, Quebec via mobile

Today it was amazing Heorge did a great job full control the whole fight.

Unfortunately I got a very disappointing experience. After the fight went to shake hands with all the members from Nick Diaz, I wasn't very welcomed by Diaz which I expected just wanted to give my respect for that fight as a martial artist.

Even Dana came to straight after and said thanks for not pushing back. I replied I would never ruin my friend GSP's night for that guy.

But this wasn't the bad news.

The bad news was how rude Kron Gracie was towards me when I was being so respectful and never ever came in a tone of disrespect even when he won battle with my own brother. Always had a sincere admiration for him specially because we have hanged out many times together and he is the son of one of my idols Rickson Gracie.

I got shocked today when he passed towards me after the post-fight conference together with Nick and Nate calling me names and stuff. Coming from Nick and Nate I can even understand and I don't care but from Kron a guy that I considered a friend, a Bjj representative together with me, calling me "mother f---er "and to "watch out to do'nt get my ass kicked outside" was a bit over the top.

I just ignored as I'm having a blast tonight and he has been immature as many times in the past.

In a fight we win we lose and many people used a lot of talking to promote their fights. But fights over we are in the same level as human being. Shame on that incident pretty dam shocked. I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO EXPRESS AND HOW TO DEAL WITH THAT S---.

[K1NG P3NN]

Nick Diaz, crying for attention every single time he talks. I can fully understand why he doesn't like to talk now, he doesn't know what the fuck he is saying. "I don't want to complain, but...I can bitch all night." Dafuq?

[LukeSalvatore]

That whole team has to be mentally deficient.

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Braulio Estima
near Montreal, Quebec via mobile

Today it was amazing Heorge did a great job full control the whole fight.

I know Brazillians pronounce G as H but they even write it that way too...

[Ramma]

Man, underneath all of this...I bet Nick is a really nice guy. Just misunderstood. A complete class act.

[Y2JUBAE]

Being a grown stupid person doesn't make you a "kid". Kids are smart.

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Cesar: I think Nick has overpaid his taxes - Mixed Martial Arts News

"I think he misspoke," said Gracie. "It's about filing. When I talked to Nick a couple of years ago it was about some tax issue he was having."

"He has paid taxes. I think he misspoke. It's about filing... He's not in any trouble that we're aware of. We haven't gotten any notices or anything."

"It's kind of weird for me to speak about stuff like that Because when we talk about fighting, it's fighting, but when you talk about taxes, hey, I'm not an accountant, obviously and that's a man's personal business. But, since he alluded to it, people have been texting me worried about it. It's fine. He has paid taxes. That's the weird thing. He would pay the tax, and probably even more than he owed, I think, in the past few years... So he has paid hundreds of thousands in taxes... I think his issue is he needs to properly file.

"He's got to get together with a good accountant and get his stuff in order like everybody else."

"For him to even bring that up after a fight was kind of off the wall."

A Canada based attorney Jonathan Tweedale said he had a personal relationship with Diaz, and offered a slightly different assessment of the mess.

"Nick thought Cesar was taking care of (taxes) for him, and Cesar wasn't," said Tweedale. "It doesn't mean Nick is screwed, but it does mean things need to be figured out."

Cesar however said he did not manage Diaz's money, and said Tweedale does not represent Diaz. Further, Gracie said he had previously referred Nick to several accountants.

"He never went to see them," said Gracie. "His girlfriend and his previous girlfriend have taken him to see CPAs. What they did with that is none of my business.

"He's a grown man."

Gracie was conspicuously absent from Diaz's corner, but Cesar explained his absence was due to a minor paperwork issue only.

"What happened was, I got there kind of late the day before," said Gracie. "I missed the meeting with the commission out there and they wanted everybody there. They were kind of sweating Nick and those guys about me. I put my paperwork in much earlier, obviously. And, I've never dealt with the Montreal commission before, so all of a sudden they said, ‘he's got to be here to do this and that.' They needed a picture or something like that. So, unfortunately for us, Nate didn't have that. So I brought my cousin out there, Kron Gracie. He has a fight coming up, so he needed to train while he was out there. So he brought him out there and he was just going to watch because Nate doesn't like to corner his brother that much. And they switched it up real quick, that's what happened."

On the subject of Diaz retiring, Gracie said he was not sure, but added that Diaz was motivated by big fights.

"I never listen to anybody after a fight. I've been in this sport for many years, before it was a sport. The emotional level is so high after a fight. And there's so many things that you're thinking in a different way than what you're going to think the day after a fight or the week after a fight. That's why I think these fighters shouldn't retire in a ring. Do it before a fight or after a fight. Everything is up to Nick. I kind of understand his mentality. If he has to fight young guys who haven't put their time in the UFC or MMA, it's not motivational to Nick. He wants big fights. Like, guys in the news that people are talking about. He wants big fights to motivate himself."

Gracie also said Georges St-Pierre was suspiciously aware of Nick's techniques and strategy.

"GSP really knew the moves that Nick was going to do from bottom," said Gracie. "It was kind of interesting. Nick does stuff that's very unique. Stuff that he does in grappling, but he doesn't necessarily do it in fighting.

"It was like 'wait a minute, that guy is one step ahead, like he knows exactly what."

"It was kind of odd. Like someone, somewhere from our team, not a current member, but I don't know. It's just one of those things, but whatever. I don't want to make that an issue at all."

The remarks parallel comments Diaz made in the Octagon to commentator Joe Rogan.

"I don't know how he knew what I was gonna do," said Diaz. "I don't want to make excuses... He blocked the kneebar, he blocked the roll... I don't know how he saw that coming. It was kind of funny."

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