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This was originally written for the site I work for Page2Sports.com but I think it bears repeating on here for the fight fans that visit this site. Please read: There are only two days left to get the currently remaining 18,316 signatures needed on Diaz’s Whitehouse.gov petition. Whether or not that is proper way to help Diaz is not the point, the point is to bring attention to the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) and the unfair, biased treatment of one of the best competitors in MMA. Nick Diaz has been suspended for five years for testing positive for marijuana from his bout with Anderson Silva at UFC  183. The fighter has done this before but since his last few tests, laws have changed and there is an allowed limit for the metabolites that come up in a test. When the sentence was handed out, on “UFC Tonight” Michael Bisping pointed out that two WADA accredited labs had showed Diaz tested under the limit. However, the Commission, looking to make an example out ...

Nick Diaz has been punished severely by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) and it seems pretty obvious they went to the most severe punishment because they simply do not like him. The attitude or perceived attitude by fans of the sport seems to have carried over into the hearing he had, and when invoking the Fifth Amendment it made them angrier. Facts were ignored and MMA fighters and fans are angry at the suspension handed down to one of the fiercest competitors in the sport. What message is the NSAC sending? First, they show obvious favoritism to fighters that bend with the wind they blow at them. Jon Jones tested positive for cocaine yet that is not listed as a banned substance, Diaz’s last opponent Anderson Silva tested positive for steroids and was only given a year suspension with time already allotted from when the test results were produced. Diaz was given the maximum punishment and a hefty fine for something that is legal for him to use in his home state of...