It is true, Nick Diaz is truly one of the more enigmatic fighters today, if not the most. Diaz is one who shuns the spotlight, because of its reliance on marketing versus him being a representative of the pure sport, doing it for the love. Socially awkward and regarded as a someone with antisocial, dark tendencies, it can be said that Diaz definitely Celebrates the Difference in his own way.

Is the quality of Countdown getting to be the same as 24/7? We will only have to see.

“Nick would take on anybody, anything, at any time. If he didn’t get the best of you, tomorrow you’d better be ready to do it again. He had some behavior problems, and also he had some gang problems. Gangs were trying to recruit him because he had a reputation of being tough and the gangs wanted to have him join up.” Tom Domench, Diaz’s 7th grade teacher. Sure, Tom, gang violence is a serious obstacle to overcome, but is it “fire alarm” serious?

“It’s an interesting connundrum that Nick is in, cause he truly doesn’t enjoy hurting people. He doesn’t want to be the guy that’s beating up other people. He doesn’t think it’s fun, but he does know that that’s his job, to win fights.” Cesar Gracie. We’ve heard from Diaz’s teachers, now where the fuck is his guidance counselor? It just sounds like he went into this whole ‘professional fighter’ gig without all of the relevant facts.

Fast forward to 7:00 minutes if you don’t wanna hear him ramble. Pac man…let’s do this baby. Accept PLEASE! LINK

As a man of few words, but one who stood up for what he believed in, epitomizing the fiery working class man with a fists full of pistons, Joe Frazier truly Celebrates the Difference.

The historic life of the great Smokin’ Joe Frazier came to an end last night, as his publicist announced Frazier suffered from liver cancer and eventually succumbed to it. Best known as a stifling foil to the Muhammad Ali, where Ali was a handsome, charismatic and magnetic figure with a scorching wit, Frazier epitomized the rough and tumble blue collar worker with few words, but was an equal in the ring. Truly, Frazier helped define an era in boxing that put the heavyweight championship in a high level of prestige, much different then the way the sport is looked at today. In that era, it was clear who the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world was without the confusion of the alphabet soup of different organizations and pound for pound rankings to confuse the average boxing pundit.

Under the moniker Smokin’ Joe, Frazier hunted his opponents around the ring with a crouched, relentless attack — his head low and bobbing, his broad, powerful shoulders hunched — as he bore down on them with an onslaught of withering jabs and crushing body blows, setting them up for his crippling left hook.

To many, The Ali Frazier era was defined as the spitting image of struggles in the 60s defined by racial,social and political issues of the Civil Rights Movement. Ali, an staunch advocate of the Nation of Islam changing his name from Cassius Clay, came to represent growing black anger in America and opposition to the Vietnam War. Frazier voiced no political views, but he was nonetheless depicted, to his consternation, as the favorite of the establishment. Ali called him ignorant, likened him to a gorilla and said his black supporters were Uncle Toms.

Frazier responded openly to Ali’s mockery “I’ve seen pictures of him in cars with white guys, huggin’ ‘em and havin’ fun,” Frazier told Sport magazine two months after the fight. “Then he go call me an Uncle Tom. Don’t say, ‘I hate the white man,’ then go to the white man for help.”

In their 3rd and final encounter, Ali remarked that” This is the closet to death I’ve ever been.”

Ali and Frazier weren’t always at odds.

It was Frazier who petitioned President Richard Nixon to have Ali’s boxing license reinstated after Ali refused induction into the Army during the Vietnam war. Frazier also boycotted a heavyweight tournament to crown a new champion after Ali was stripped of his title in 1967.

“Ali always said I would be nothing without him. But who would he have been without me?” –Joe Frazier.

“I forgave him for all the accusations he made over the years,” The Daily News quoted Frazier as saying. “I hope he’s doing fine. I’d love to see him.”

Will it live up to the hype? Experts say Jones will probably finish the fight by picking Jackson apart. Is Jon jones really that good. I want Rampage to will by KO early.