Nate Diaz offers opinion on Jon Jones' rehab for cocaine – you won't be surprised

Nate Diaz

UFC lightweight Nate Diaz is no stranger to tension with his employer, and seldom does he hold back with his opinions.

So it should come as little surprise that the winner of Season 5 of “The Ultimate Fighter” offered up a bit of a contrarian opinion on the recent news that Jon Jones tested positive for cocaine metabolites and has entered rehab.

In a Wednesday tweet, Diaz, in a hashtag, implied the whole thing was a “publicity stunt” and said he “ain’t buyin’ it.” He also added hashtags of “ufcbullsh-t” and “bereal,” and cited a recent MMA Fighting story about UFC President Dana White suggesting Jones “should embrace being the bad guy.”

Jones, in a Dec. 4 drug test in Nevada, tested positive for the primary cocaine metabolite benzoylecgonine. Because the test was considered an out-of-competition one, and because benzoylecgonine is not banned out of competition by the World Anti-Doping Agency, the NSAC could not halt Jones from fighting at UFC 182 on Jan. 3.

At that event, Jones beat Daniel Cormier by unanimous decision. Three days later, the cocaine news went public.

Diaz has had a rocky recent past with the UFC. After more than a year on the sidelines, he returned in December at UFC on FOX 13 in Phoenix. Two days prior to the fight, he told MMAjunkie the company’s recent signing of CM Punk was a bad thing, saying, “F-ck him, f-ck the whole situation.” The next day, he badly missed weight for his co-main event against Rafael dos Anjos. Then he was dominated by dos Anjos, losing a unanimous decision.

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