Originally Posted by Gygax

Lots to think about here.

First off, good for Nick for wanting to get back into action. But as always with the Japanese promotions, I'll take a wait and see approach. Its very odd that he's now scheduled on the Dream website, yet no mention of this fight on GracieFighter.com, his team's own website that loves to break news like this. Is it true, or is this another case like Frank Trigg from a few weeks ago?

The Jake Shields-Drew Fickett fight scheduled for that June 14th show was delayed again due to an injury to Fickett. It would not surprise me at all to see Diaz, a teammate of Shields, to pull out as well. In fact, it would make sense since EliteXC is already scrambling to fill up their card for the July 26th show which will be their second on CBS. EXC's talent pool of big (or potentially big) stars is small and they are placing a bunch of them on that initial May 31st show. We could see both Shields and Diaz on that July 26th card.

Thus, it would make sense for Diaz to look for a warmup fight in Dream to shake off the ring rust before fighting on that July CBS card.

Just some thoughts.