Diaz’ lawyer: “he wants the attention on the fighters and the promotion.”
MMAHour caight up with Nick Diaz’ lawyer, and asked soem questions about his upcoming promotion “WAR Mixed Martial Arts”.
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“The idea was to throw a show here locally, and the concept just grew and grew,” Diaz’s legal representative, Jonathan Tweedale, explained on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “Folks are interested anytime Nick is doing something, so this has become bigger than I think he originally envisioned … in terms of the attention that’s being put on it and as a response to that, the things that he wants to do.”
“The genesis in his thought,” Tweedale explained, “was he was looking at a bunch of the guys around on the team and the in community that weren’t on his team, and thinking about whether they had adequate opportunities to fight. The thought was that a new promotion would provide a much needed opportunity for a lot of these guys to advance their careers. So, in part, it’s about giving back to the sport and to the folks around him that have helped him along the way, and, in part, it’s a new project to build something for his own future.”
“If this was solely about dollars and cents then, yeah, he’d be out there whoring himself around to the media. But he wants the attention on the fighters and the promotion. It’s a different model from the UFC’s model where Dana White is biggest star that the UFC has. That’s not how Nick is envisioning proceeding here.”