![]() | Nick Diaz Off Strikeforce/EXC Show
After a tumultuous week of matchmaking for the upcoming EliteXC and Strikeforce co-promoted event, MMAWeekly.com has learned from sources close to the fight that Nick Diaz is out of his bout with Jae Suk Kim for undisclosed reasons. Drew Fickett will now step in and face Kim instead, as he was currently without a bout after Jake Shields dropped out of their planned title bout due to injury. The exit of Diaz came suddenly after EliteXC had just released what was believed to be the final change to its upcoming Showtime card. Jae Suk Kim will now face Drew Fickett in a fight that will take place at 170 pounds and will be a part of the televised portion of the show. MMAWeekly.com was unable to secure any further details as to why Diaz had to drop out of his bout, but will follow up as more information becomes available. Luke wasn't kidding earlier today when he said that this show is slowly turning into an absolute disaster. All we can hope for is Cung Le and Frank Shamrock staying healthy so we have a real title fight at the top of the show. The show has actually dropped to being my third most anticipated show of the next week and a half behind the stacked Ultimate Fight Night and IFL cards. That being said, Fickett/Lim is a pretty interesting fight as you're taking two big underdogs in the originally scheduled fight and letting them go at each other. I'll take Fickett by TKO late in the fight though. Update [2008-3-27 10:3:0 by Nick Thomas]: The undisclosed reason is waiting 3 days before the fight to say Diaz has a prescription for medical marijuana because of his ADD. |
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