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Attorney Jonathan Tweedale, on “Beatdown,” discussing his client Nick Diaz’s retirement:

“In MMA, whenever a fighter announces his retirement, there’s a healthy amount of skepticism and that’s because so many guys retired in the cage after a fight and then everyone rolls their eyes because several months later they’re fighting again. Nick has retired both publicly and really psychologically. He’s retired at this point. Now could something bring him out of retirement? Yeah. There are guys that he really couldn’t turn down the opportunity to fight for the right amount of money … .”

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