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Dave Mandel/Sherdog.comLabor of glove: Nick Diaz punches people in the face for a living because it pays the bills.Because it's frequently difficult to understand the theme of a Nick Diaz speech, I may be misinterpreting his apparent distaste fo...

Because it's frequently difficult to understand the theme of a Nick Diaz speech, I may be misinterpreting his apparent distaste for MMA in a video interview for Fight! magazine. (Exclamation point theirs.) If you can't be bothered to watch Diaz spin ...

Sometimes, ugly is enough to get the job done.On Saturday, Nick Diaz needed five rounds and another blood-crusted face to best K.J. Noons, nearly three years after a doctor's stoppage gave Noons a win over him. Neither man was particularly grace...

Sometimes, ugly is enough to get the job done. On Saturday, Nick Diaz needed five rounds and another blood-crusted face to best K.J. Noons, nearly three years after a doctor's stoppage gave Noons a win over him. Neither man was particularly graceful...

Nick Diaz may dismiss his first fight with K.J. Noons as the result of a trigger-happy doctor -- a physician stopped the fight when Diaz was spurting blood from his brow -- but the scene had a far more dramatic impact on his fight career than he migh...

Nick Diaz may dismiss his first fight with K.J. Noons as the result of a trigger-happy doctor -- a physician stopped the fight when Diaz was spurting blood from his brow -- but the scene had a far more dramatic impact on his fight career than he migh...

Check this space beginning at 10 p.m. ET Saturday for live coverage of Strikeforce: Diaz vs. Noons II

In some kind of bizarre delayed reaction, Strikeforce's Nick Diaz and Jason "Mayhem" Miller have spent part of the past week trading insults over their April meltdown on CBS. (Refresher: Miller interrupted a Jake Shields postfight interview to p...

In some kind of bizarre delayed reaction, Strikeforce's Nick Diaz and Jason "Mayhem" Miller have spent part of the past week trading insults over their April meltdown on CBS. (Refresher: Miller interrupted a Jake Shields postfight interview to ply hi...

Cable is expensive, but stealing it is illegal. What's a morally conflicted person to do? Watch this space beginning at 10 p.m. ET Saturday for live coverage of "Strikeforce: Miami,"

Saturday's UFC 99 event in Cologne, Germany, added $1.3 million to the promotion's 2009 revenues, and admitted nearly 13,000 fans -- all of whom, if German media propaganda is to be believed, will go on to socially distorted lives of animal torturing...

Jon Kopaloff/Getty ImagesNick Diaz, right, could face the "big boys" at 205 pounds ... if the price is right. High off a victory over Scott Smith on Saturday -- pun fully intended -- Team Nick Diaz is making some ambitious claims. Trainer Cesar Graci...

High off a victory over Scott Smith on Saturday -- pun fully intended -- Team Nick Diaz is making some ambitious claims. Trainer Cesar Gracie told FightHype.com that they'd welcome fights at 205 pounds if the right offer came along. "We would bulk h...

My tactful, indisputably articulate summary of Strikeforce's second Showtime event: It's been 16 years since UFC 1, and Gracie jiu-jitsu is still running things. Kind of. Cesar Gracie students Nick Diaz and Jake Shields didn't enter the cage Saturda...

A Frankenstein monster of outcast ProElite talent, slightly irritating 182-pound fights and two Hammer House alum who never fail to disappoint, Strikeforce's live broadcast from St. Louis, Mo., is set to kick off. Keep checking back here for updates ...

AP Photo/Jeff ChiuExpect Nick Diaz, left, to swing for the fences when he meets Scott Smith. Some fighters have more to lose than money. This weekend's biggest risk-takers:Nick Diaz (Strikeforce) A win against Scott Smith validates a move to mi...