Nick Diaz is back at the gym, now training at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas, where Sean Strickland is one of the team leaders. Earlier this week, the two UFC veterans met for the first time.<\/p>\n
Strickland is preparing to face Anthony Hernandez in the main event of UFC Houston on Feb. 21. In a video released by Jake Shields\u2019 Fight Back MMA page on social media, Strickland noticed Diaz in the gym during a training session in the cage, where the two fighters shared a moment.<\/p>\n
Check out Diaz and Strickland\u2019s first meeting below.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s awesome, I got to get rolling with you, dude,\u201d Strickland told Diaz. \u201cF*cking legend over here, guys. It\u2019s crazy. \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a f*cking legend, guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Strickland looks to get back on track after over a year out of the octagon. In his most recent appearance, Strickland dropped a lopsided unanimous decision in a rematch to then-champ Dricus du Plessis at UFC 312 in February 2025. The former middleweight champ faces a surging Hernandez, who enters the bout on an impressive eight-fight win streak, including a Performance of the Year contending submission win over Roman Dolidze in the main event of UFC Vegas 109 this past August.<\/p>\n
While Diaz is back to training while maintaining a healthy lifestyle, Strickland told Diaz about how he used to watch the past UFC title challenger as he was growing up \u2014 and Diaz gave his props right back.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe moral of the story is, when I was a kid, I used to watch you, bro,\u201d Strickland told Diaz. \u201cI\u2019d be in my f*cking boxer shorts in the living room watching you scrap, dog. It was dope, dude.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNow I watch you,\u201d Diaz responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Diaz is back at the gym, now training at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas, where Sean Strickland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-417630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}